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• Have you got two sixpences for a shilling?From the entry sixpence
• I could get thirty shillings in the local fish-and-chipper on a Saturday night.2013 April, Zoe Miller, The Compromise, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry fish-and-chipper
• Traditionally it would cost two and six – two shillings and six pence.[2008, Marcus Waring, The Deranged Book for Old Timers, page 68. From the entry bed and breakfast
• Talk about creating money out of nothing—the original silver dollar only cost five shillings!2002, Paul Swan, Maths Investigations, page 66. From the entry dump
• An elaborate tariff prescribed in shillings the “wergild” or exact value or worth of every man.1956, Winston Churchill, The Birth of Britain, page 66. From the entry ætheling
• He was in a crapulous state of booze, too, and demanded another thirty shillings.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 71. From the entry crapulous
• After working hard for a couple of weeks he suddenly downed tools and truculently demanded thirty shillings.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 71. From the entry truculently
• A solicitor (attorney) usually charges six shillings and eightpence, or colloquially speaking, six and eight.1946, C[ecil] V[incent] R[aymond] Thompson, chapter 3, in How to Like an Englishman, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →OCLC, pages 50–51. From the entry titfer
• All day long he worked, cutting out pennies and shillings and half-crowns and threepenny-bits.1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “East Wind”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, pages 3–4. From the entry threepenny bit
• "Here's ten shillings for you, but I'm going to toe your backside first!" said Manna.1927, Nordahl Grieg, The Ship Sails On, page 153. From the entry toe
• This I purchased for a shilling and went straight to the dining room.1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiv. From the entry hearty
• I knew that chap; but he never was more nor tenpence to the shilling.1909, Edward R. Hartley, Train Talks, page 4. From the entry tenpence to the shilling
• Even when people are trying to sell you something, their messages seem off-the-cuff, like trustworthy recommendations rather than sponsored shilling.2021 October 2, John Herrman, “Will TikTok Make You Buy It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry off-the-cuff
• Martyn Browne, Esq., paid a fat turkey, or two shillings, in rent for a 'pingle'—a small piece of enclosed land—there.2014, Caitlin Green, The Streets of Louth, page 279. From the entry pingle
• Seventeen shillings went on replacement lutestrings for Elizabeth herself.2011, Alison Weir, Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558, page 131. From the entry lutestring
• “Three for a thousand shillings.” “Too much.” “Three gonja for seven hundred shillings,” a shorter boy in a brown shirt said.2011, Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, Susan Urbanek Linville, A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka. From the entry gonja
• A buckler cost £1 and a goedendag cost 10 shillings.2010, Randall Fegley, The Golden Spurs of Kortrijk: How the Knights of France Fell to the Foot Soldiers of Flanders in 1302, McFarland…. From the entry goedendag
• A ceorl's wergeld was usually set at two hundred shillings.2005, Jean A. Stuntz, Hers, His, and Theirs: Community Property Law in Spain and Early Texas, →ISBN. From the entry wergeld
• This is a Macbethian Gothic, a subtype of the shilling shocker designed to thrill the reader with gory supernatural spectacle.1998, Syndy M. Conger, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 26. From the entry Macbethian
• The new kobo is the same size as the old Nigerian shilling and carries a depiction of cocoa seeds.1972 October 9, The Times, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, Nigeria Supplement, page viii, column 4; quoted in “kobo”, in R[obert] W[illiam]…. From the entry kobo
• The Hong Kong Dollar is the local currency unit and has a fixed value of one shilling and three pennies sterling.1964, Commerce & Industry - Volume 23, page 481. From the entry penny sterling
• I had sold it to her that morning for ninepence; the real price was a shilling, but it was somewhat shopworn.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 137. From the entry ninepence
• He had begun at four, playing with a miniature cleek and a found shilling ball over the municipal links.1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not... (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 58. From the entry cleek
• Ladies’ grey flannelette bloomers, three shillings a pair, astonishing bargain.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry bloomers
• I have taken the King's shilling, but perhaps if you came for me they would let me go back with you.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Strife in Love”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 182. From the entry King's shilling
• Two and a kick—two shillings and a kick.1912, French's Acting Edition of Plays, Dramas, Extravaganzas, Farces etc., page 12. From the entry kick
• From half-eagles of yore to George Washingtons of today, there isn’t a penny, shilling, or bird you can’t find in the U.S.2017, Karrie Gavin, “U.S. Mint”, in Moon Philadelphia: Including Pennsylvania Dutch Country, 4th edition, Berkeley, Calif.: Avalon Travel…. From the entry George Washington
• It turned out that Margaret had spent some hard-earned cash to the extent of about one shilling to purchase two pounds of flour.2009, Hanif Gulmahamad, Stories & Poems by a Guyanese Village Boy, page 57. From the entry salara
• It served her well, as her husband Bill, a small, quiet man, sustained shell-shock in the war and although pleasant, was not the full shilling.2006, Chris Sullivan, Broad Soldiers: Tom Grove Goes Naked, page 39. From the entry the full shilling
• Less esteemed was her attempt to drive all snakes from the Apple Isle by paying convicts a shilling for each reptilian head brought to her.2004, “Jane Franklin: Not People of the First Respectability”, in Tim Flannery, editor, The Birth of Melbourne, page 96. From the entry Apple Isle
• Cassava mixed with beans (katogo or nyoyo) cost the same but plain cassava with salt cost as little as one shilling a plate.1980, Christine Obbo, African Women: Their Struggle for Economic Independence (Women in the Third World series), London: Zed Press, →ISBN…. From the entry katogo
• He felt no curiosity about news or daily events, and was getting to be looked on as 'tenpence to the shilling' in the head.1951, Crichton Porteous, Wild Acres, page 203. From the entry tenpence to the shilling
• With a grunt that rejected a disgraceful admission of poverty, Bradly delved up a shilling and a sixpence and showed them to her.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 209. From the entry delve
• 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
• 'Six plates of roast beef,' he said, placing two shillings with a flourish on the counter of the beef-house while the others sat at a table by the window.2010, Cora Harrison, The Montgomery Murder. From the entry beef-house
• 'Here's your lollies,' she says holding out the grubby packet of lovehearts, Maura's share of the two shillings' worth they had bought with the money from the Barnardos box.2001, Fiona Farrell, The Skinny Louie Book. From the entry love heart
• Areas of no more than ten acres of crown land may be granted as bee-arms on annual licenses, the rent being one shilling an acre per annum.1918, International Review of Agricultural Economics, volume 9, page 917. From the entry per annum
• If you can give me no more than twenty-five shillings, I'm sure I'm not going to buy you pork-pie to stuff, after you've swilled a bellyful of beer.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 8, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry swill
• I tramped to a neighbouring market-town, and, late as the hour was, the production of a few shillings procured me supper and a night's lodging in a cheap coffee-house.1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Lost Sanjak”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC…. From the entry production

Meaning of shilling

1. noun A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.
2. noun The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.
3. noun A currency in the United States, differing in value between states.

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How do you use shilling in a sentence?

Shilling is used as a noun. For example: “Have you got two sixpences for a shilling?”

What is a short sentence with shilling?

“Have you got two sixpences for a shilling?”

What does shilling mean?

Shilling means a coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.