How to Use silver dollar in a Sentence

silver dollar

noun
  • With a hint of lemon, these fluffy silver dollar pancakes are a sweet way to start the day.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2025
  • So Jesse gets up in front of this crowd of kids, and their eyes were big as silver dollars.
    — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • At each of the chain’s grand openings in Jacksonville that year, the first customers received a free silver dollar.
    — Ashley Ferrer, Florida Times-Union, 4 Feb. 2026
  • At each of the chain’s grand openings in Jacksonville that year, the first customers received a free silver dollar.
    — Gary T. Mills, Florida Times-Union, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Pacemakers like Sheehy’s are small devices, roughly the size of a silver dollar, placed under the skin.
    — Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • One scene, featuring a ghost with silver dollars over its eyes, is nearly as good as the hide-and-clap scene in The Conjuring.
    — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Each package is about the size of a silver dollar and contains an accelerometer, a gyroscope, and a magnetometer.
    — Casey Weaver, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Aug. 2020
  • The children’s buffet offers chicken tenders, waffle fries, macaroni and cheese, and silver dollar pancakes.
    — Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • With their snouts, the pigs would feel each beat of my heart the way a human would feel a silver dollar that had been flipped in the air then caught in an open palm, flipped and caught, coming up heads or tails, whichever side had been called when the coin was at its apogee.
    — Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • Its manifesto centered on curtailment of the power of the railroads, federal loans to aid farmers in debt, and currency reform that entailed reintroducing Hamilton’s old silver dollar alongside the gold dollar to ease monetary conditions, which would give debtors a chance to clear their loans.
    — David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Jackson dazzles in other ways, too, such as the 4,000 Morgan silver dollars on display at the eponymous bar and inside the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, another requisite après-ski joint when visiting town.
    — Crai S Bower, Outside, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The set includes a couple of different variations of GIR’s cult favorite mini silicone spatulas, along with a flipper that’s perfect for silver dollar pancakes and a whisk that’s the ideal size for emulsifying small batches of salad dressing or beating eggs and milk in a liquid measuring cup.
    — Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Nov. 2025

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