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How to use rupee in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Rupee means any of the monetary currencies used in modern India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, the Seychelles, or Sri Lanka. Example: “The money changer gave me rupees for my dollars.”

Examples of rupee by meaning

nounAny of the monetary currencies used in modern India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, the Seychelles, or Sri Lanka.

  • To take an analogy we are given a ten-rupee note.1937, Rabindranath Tagore, “Lecture II: Supreme Man”, in Man: Lectures Delivered at the Andhra University under the Terms of the Sir Alladi...
  • But the amount required is in hundreds of thousands of crores of rupees.1999, Katar Singh, “Financing Rural Development”, in Rural Development: Principles, Policies and Management, 2nd edition, New Delhi: SAGE...
  • The Seychelles rupee was allowed to depreciate in 2006 after being overvalued for years and fell by 10% in the first 9 months of 2007.2013, “Strategic and Development Profiles”, in Seychelles Business Law Handbook, volumes 1 (Strategic Information and Basic Laws)...

More sentences with rupee

  • The money changer gave me rupees for my dollars.From the entry money changer
  • "Young memsahib, an empty tiffin box costs ten rupees in the market.2011, Mahtab Narsimhan, The Tiffin, Toronto, Ont.: Dancing Cat Books, →ISBN. From the entry tiffin
  • In his dream he was drinking in Bombay, paying for rounds with ample rupees.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 136. From the entry liverishly
  • Getting into politics will cost you: India's Election Commission estimates the cost of fighting a seat is twenty- five million rupees.2013 June 6, Bloomsbury Publishing, The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon, A&C Black, →ISBN. From the entry Bollygarch
  • With the food, it's worth maybe fifteen rupees.2011, Mahtab Narsimhan, The Tiffin, Toronto, Ont.: Dancing Cat Books, →ISBN. From the entry tiffin
  • She fed him a laddu and blessed him, and received in exchange his promise of protection, five rupees, and a hug.1993, Vikram Seth, “The Prime Minister Fights, and Keeps His Head. Sad Sons Assuage the Spirits of Their Dead.”, in A Suitable Boy, New…. From the entry rakhi
  • From the boxwallah, two rupees eight annas.1931, George Orwell, A Hanging. From the entry wallah
  • Also expenses will not exceed four to five thousand rupees.1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi. From the entry for the asking
  • Japan's ordinary budget for the Army is only about 37.3 millions yen, or a little under six crores of rupees.1906 March 28, G[opal] K[rishna] Gokhale, “Budget Speech, 1906”, in Speeches of the Honourable Mr. G. K. Gokhale, C.I.E., Madras…. From the entry yen
  • Cental coin will be exchanged at the rate of two cents of a shilling for one cent of a rupee or florin .1930, Tanganyika, “East African Rupee and Florin Currency”, in Official Gazette, page 470. From the entry cental
  • It has its compensation in the feeling of magnificence it superinduces, just as one feels richer after reading of a lakh of rupees.1920, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, A Brazilian Mystic: Being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro, London: Heinemann…. From the entry superinduce
  • Mathur sighed that things had come to such a pass that no honest businessman could get even a challan form without first handing out a few rupees.2002, Romen Basu, Breach of Faith. From the entry challan

Meaning of rupee

  1. noun Any of the monetary currencies used in modern India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, the Seychelles, or Sri Lanka.
  2. noun A silver coin circulating in India between the 16th and 20th centuries, weighing one tola (formerly 170–180 troy grains; from 1833, 180 troy grains).
  3. noun The primary currency of Hyrule.

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Questions about rupee in a sentence

How do you use rupee in a sentence?
Rupee is used as a noun. For example: “The money changer gave me rupees for my dollars.”
What is a short sentence with rupee?
“From the boxwallah, two rupees eight annas.”
What does rupee mean?
Rupee means any of the monetary currencies used in modern India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, the Seychelles, or Sri Lanka.

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