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How to use dime in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Dime means a coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents. Example: “She didn't spend a dime.”

Examples of dime by meaning

nounA coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.

  • The San Francisco mint made about 2.5 million of these dimes, but fewer than 10 are still known to exist, according to Heritage.2016 January 8, Aaron Smith, “This old dime just sold for $2 million”, in CNN

nounA small amount of money.

  • She didn't spend a dime.

nounA thousand dollars.

  • In a single week, he dropped a dime—$1,000.2007 05, Ted McClelland, Horseplayers: Life at the Track, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN

nounA ten-year prison sentence.

  • These deaths got him a dime in a minimum-security prison.2007 September 23, David Bowman, “Torchlit Crit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

nounPayment responsibility.

  • Are you traveling on the company's dime?

nounA beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).

  • Make a couple of nuns a couple of dimes.2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson...

verbTo inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.

  • Somebody dimed on me and I got arrested for selling marijuana.

verbTo operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest...

  • I get the best-sounding sustain and smooth harmonic distortion when I run the amp dimed.

More sentences with dime

  • People with your skills are a dime a dozen these days.From the entry a dime a dozen
  • I bought my new ride from some nickel and dime used-car salesman.From the entry nickel and dime
  • Don't waste your time with that; their operations are nickel and dime.From the entry nickel and dime
  • If you bring me a glass of sweet iced tea, I will give you a Yankee dime.From the entry Yankee dime
  • The two of them chain-smoked a dime bag's worth of marijuana.From the entry chain-smoke
  • This vase is not worth a dime. Why did you pay so much for it?From the entry not worth a dime
  • This car has excellent brakes that will stop it on a dime.From the entry on a dime
  • He was in the back for a few minutes. Turned out he was dropping a dime on Ralph.From the entry drop a dime
  • His dime bag split open while he was running away.From the entry dime bag
  • He smoked a dime bag last night.From the entry dime bag
  • This boat can turn on a dime.From the entry on a dime
  • Brother, can you spare a dime?From the entry brother
  • His opinions aren't worth a dime.From the entry not worth a dime
  • From cutting 2dollars off a dime bag of weed from touching 6 figures at 16.2021 November 20, Bob Mehr, “Memphis rapper Yo Gotti doubles down with new set”, in The Commercial Appeal, volume 180, number 323, page 6A. From the entry hustla
  • She assumed these to be the fevered imaginings of dime novelists.2016, Derek Catron, chapter 7, in Trail Angel: A Frontier Epic of Love & Redemption, Waterville, Me.: Five Star, Gale, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry dime novelist
  • The loud rinky-dink music and the wafting blue cigar smoke made the scene a dime novel cover.2013, Conn Hamlett, John Lee Johnson and the Gunslingers, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry rinky-dink
  • I bring my own mug for that reason, not to save the dime.2006 August 19, KD, “Tim Hortons”, in hfx.general (Usenet), archived from the original on 17 Apr 2026. From the entry Tims
  • “Listen”, I told Edgar, “in for a dime, in for a dollar”.2003, Leo Kolber, Leo: a life, page 183. From the entry in for a dime, in for a dollar
  • Salinger would be disgusted by what I was doing—all the while drinking on my dime.1995 December 22, Adam Green, “If Holden Caulfield Spent a Weekend in Today's Manhattan”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Jun 2019. From the entry on someone's dime
  • Don't drop dimes on the company commanders unless it is a last resort.1990, Military Intelligence - Volume 16, Issue 4, page 7. From the entry drop dimes
  • Somebody loan me a dime, I need to call my old time used to be.1969, Fenton Robinson, “Loan Me a Dime”, in Boz Scaggs, performed by Boz Scaggs. From the entry old time used to be
  • You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?1965, Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone”. From the entry prime
  • Cheerfully, and in my honey-sweetest voice I asked: “Can you give me a dime for two nickels?”1942 October 24, Pat McVean, ““Black-Out” Nickel Fools Many People”, in The Leader-Post, volume XXXIV, number 251, Regina, Sask., page…. From the entry honey-sweet
  • The smallest coin we had in Canada in early days was a dime, worth ten cents.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 10, in Klee Wyck. From the entry bit
  • "Your money's no good here," he answered, shoving the two dimes across the bar to me.1907 December, Jack London, “Hoboes That Pass In The Night”, in The Cosmopolitan, volume 44, number 2, page 193. From the entry your money is no good here
  • But it wouldn’t be worth a dime if enough investors hadn’t decided to treat it as though it were gold.2021 December 6, Richard Seymour, “Jack Dorsey’s ditched Twitter for bitcoin. Has the social media bubble burst?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry hyperstition
  • Trains can’t swerve to avoid something in their way or stop on a dime like a rubber-tired vehicle.”2019 April 25, Morgan Rousseau, “SEPTA to travelers: ‘Respect the train’”, in Metro, page 4. From the entry tired
  • Scared people drop dimes on the people that scare them.2012, John Gilstrap, Damage Control, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry drop dimes
  • So Hansen has released a Be on the Lookout For and this babe can't wait to drop the dime.2012, Don Winslow, California Fire and Life, page 297. From the entry be on the lookout
  • A reputation is only useful to dime novelists, boy.2011, James Ankrom, The Reaper, page 83. From the entry that and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee
  • “We go to the streets, a few dime droppers just got released yesterday, they still might know something"2009, Abisai Estrella, A Reason for Retribution, page 193. From the entry dime dropper
  • She was more than a dime piece.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry gorgeous

Meaning of dime

  1. noun A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.
  2. noun A small amount of money.
  3. noun An assist.

Full definition of dime

Questions about dime in a sentence

How do you use dime in a sentence?
Dime is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She didn't spend a dime.”
What is a short sentence with dime?
“She didn't spend a dime.”
What does dime mean?
Dime means a coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.

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