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How to use yen in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun, verb

Yen means the unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen. Example: “I need to hedge a yard of yen.”

Examples of yen by meaning

nounThe unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen.

  • 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: Published...
  • Micron said in a statement that it would bring extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology to Japan, becoming the first semiconductor company to do so, and expected to invest up to 500 billion yen ($3.6 billion) with support from the Japanese government.2023 May 18, Reuters, “Chipmakers look to Japan as worries about China grow”, in CNN Business

nounA coin or note worth one yen.

  • This way, fiscal policy would not have crowded out private-sector activity yen by yen, as actually happened.2003, Richard Werner, “Preface”, in Princes of the Yen: Japan’s Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy, Armonk, N.Y.: M. E....

nounA strong desire, urge, or yearning.

  • humankind's yen for knowledge
  • Like most middle-westerners, I have never had any but the vaguest race prejudices—I always had a secret yen for the lovely Scandinavian blondes who sat on porches in St.1936 February, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up”, in Esquire
  • Sometimes have a yen to get one of them in bed.1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, published 1955 (France), page 342

verbTo have a strong desire for.

  • Anyway she yens for you.1953, Alfred Bester, “Who He?”, New York, N.Y.: Dial Press, →OCLC, page 205
  • Lewis warned, "The yen to publish is spiritually dangerous." The "yen" in this case is spread around, so perhaps the danger is diminished!1992, Peter Jordan, “Acknowledgements”, in Re-Entry: Making the Transition from Missions to Life at Home, Seattle, Wash.: YWAM Publishing...

More sentences with yen

  • I need to hedge a yard of yen.From the entry yard
  • The yen floats against the dollar.From the entry float
  • The pound does not benefit from safe-haven status like the Swiss franc or Japanese yen.2020 March 19, Marcus Ashworth, “Cheap Sterling Has Reasons to Be Cheaper”, in The Washington Post. From the entry flipside
  • Mrs Watanabe, the market’s metaphor for Japan’s housewife yen speculators, has come back to life.2009 June 27, “The return of 'Mrs Watanabe'”, in Asia Times, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2009. From the entry Mrs. Watanabe
  • Good quality coal at present costs about 19 yen per ton at Keelung.1919 December, “More Coal in the East”, in South African Mining and Engineering Journal, page 163. From the entry Keelung
  • Anywho, recently for some peculiar reason, I've suffered a yen to make meatballs, and no tomato sauce-y stuff!2007 October 1, Sky, “I'm asking for trouble! Meatballs?”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Nov 2023. From the entry tomato sauce-y
  • Still, men who are born with a yen for hammering and who are endowed with arenic talents fight anyway.1932 June 11, “Ed. Hughes’ Column”, in Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 91st year, number 162, New York, N.Y., page 12. From the entry arenic
  • Before leaving the Kyndam I had bought in exchange what I thought to be enough yens and sens to see me through.2013, Charles F. C. Ladd, Jr., Around the World at Seventeen, page 70. From the entry sen
  • Summers believes that quantitative easing (printing a lot more yen and getting them circulated) is the most effective way of doing that.1999 September 18, “ANALYSIS: Professor Summers teaching Japan a Lesson”, in Asia Times. From the entry quantitative easing
  • "Swing Time:" Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers trip the light fantastic in this yarn about a dancer with a yen for gambling.1978 May 31, "Movies", in the St. Petersburg Independent, page 11-B. From the entry trip the light fantastic
  • My next trip down I had an ounce of uncut marijuana and ten yen poks of opium rolled into pellets, about the size of saccharin.1971, Florrie Fisher, The Lonely Trip Back. From the entry yen pok
  • As such industrial fields remain largely mum, the air is now filled with the plaintive voices of the industries suffering from the drastic upwing of the yen.1986, Tokyo Business Today, page 64. From the entry upwing

Meaning of yen

  1. noun The unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen.
  2. noun A coin or note worth one yen.
  3. noun A strong desire, urge, or yearning.

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Questions about yen in a sentence

How do you use yen in a sentence?
Yen is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I need to hedge a yard of yen.”
What is a short sentence with yen?
“humankind's yen for knowledge”
What does yen mean?
Yen means the unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen.

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