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• This car has excellent brakes that will stop it on a sixpence.From the entry on a sixpence
• This motorboat can turn on a sixpence.From the entry on a sixpence
• In C.18–early 19, occ. a sixpence: also c., whence the U.S. sense.1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. From the entry hog
• I wanted to put sixpence on, each way.2014, Ivan Yates, Full On, →ISBN. From the entry each way
• "That will be sixpence," he said without looking up.1977, Marilynne K. Roach, Encounters with the Invisible World: Being Ten Tales of Ghosts, Witches, & the Devil Himself in New England, New…. From the entry knap
• Well, that's the state of the exchequer." Two sixpences and a few coppers were the result of his investigation.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry exchequer
• Twenty years ago you might hear a sixpence described as a ‘Lord’ meaning ‘Lord of the Manor’; that is, a tanner.1933 November 16, Times Literary Supplement, 782/1. From the entry lord
• And every night now he played pontoon, that game of the Tommies, with Mrs Bolton, gambling with sixpences.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XV, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC. From the entry tommy
• This photo-mountant costs about sixpence a pot, but you can buy a bottle of gum for a penny.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry mountant
• But of that evening she had remembered a little pot of caviare: It had cost seven and sixpence.1917 October 4, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “A Dill Pickle”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable…. From the entry caviare
• I fought the white man for less than sixpence.1916, H. Rider Haggard, The Ivory Child. From the entry love
• 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
• It amounts in all to four thousand three hundred and seventeen pounds, twelve shillings and sixpence, and I have paid every penny of it out of my own pocket.1905, Bram Stoker, “Chapter XXI”, in The Man. From the entry unpay
• Even should all the amount asked for be raised, it will only permit of an expenditure equal at most to about sixpence per head of the starving and homeless people.1907, “THE FAMINE IN KIANGPEH”, in The Missionary Herald, volume 103, number 2, page 92. From the entry Anhui

Meaning of sixpence

1. noun The value of six old pence; half of a shilling; or one-fortieth of a pound sterling.
2. noun A former British or Irish coin worth six pennies, first minted in 1551.

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How do you use sixpence in a sentence?

Sixpence is used as a noun. For example: “Finest apples, sixpence each.”

What is a short sentence with sixpence?

“Finest apples, sixpence each.”

What does sixpence mean?

Sixpence means the value of six old pence; half of a shilling; or one-fortieth of a pound sterling.