How to Use two cents in a Sentence

two cents

noun
  • So, their two cents aren’t worth much.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
  • That's up two cents from the day before.
    — Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 2 May 2026
  • Some celebs are even adding their own two cents into the feud.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 15 May 2019
  • My two cents is that there’s nothing wrong with it right now.
    — Michael Cox, The Athletic, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Each penny, which is worth one cent, costs two cents to make.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2020
  • But now Campbell is adding her own two cents to what went down.
    — Hedy Phillips, People.com, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Maybe that’s just my two cents, but that should be considered.
    — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Then my brother’s wife came charging in with her two cents, too.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Tuesday’s gas price is over two cents cheaper than the end of last week.
    — Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 Feb. 2025
  • North then crawls over both her mom and dad before pulling up her own stool to give her two cents.
    — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Listen deeply—without jumping to fix or add your own two cents.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Here, some of our favorite designers give their two cents on when its okay to go bare.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Allow Williams, who now has a better grasp of the group, to give his two cents.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 28 May 2023
  • My first allowance — this was in the 1950s — was two cents per week.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
  • Fans were quick to share their two cents in the comments, many of whom expressed their outrage.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Which, of course, is not stopping anyone else from putting their two cents in right at this very moment.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Obama isn’t nearly the first president to give his two cents on aliens.
    — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Christina and Tarek's mothers will also throw in their two cents.
    — Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Kelly, meanwhile, had dialed Christi in to give her two cents.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024
  • Other Redditors who were not on the cruise chimed in with their own two cents.
    — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 22 Nov. 2025
  • There’s been a lot of bulls--- said over the years, by people who weren’t there, but wanted to put their two cents in.
    — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Emmett went into the store to buy a small item, most likely two cents’ worth of bubble gum.
    — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • That would wipe two cents a share off Starbucks’ earnings, Charles said.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The former live-action Shaggy shares his two cents.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Of course, Houston couldn't let this moment pass by without putting in our two cents.
    — Shelby Stewart, Chron, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Her posts attracted a slew of commenters who raised questions and shared their two cents about the idea.
    — Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The daughter is most likely not going to listen to the parent’s two cents on this.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2026
  • My two cents is that the connection is foundational, and the tools come on top of that.
    — Mark Roberts, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • This week, Naomi Campbell put in her own two cents on the matter.
    — Andrea Park, Teen Vogue, 27 Sep. 2018
  • This isn’t the first time Vance has offered his two cents on a zeitgeist-capturing film.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2024

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