Penny in example sentence

When the great General George C. Marshall – whose memoirs of World War II and of his tenure as America’s Secretary of State would have been worth every penny – was offered $1 million by a publisher in the1950’s for his autobiography, the old man replied, “Why would I want $1 million?”

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This one is in prototyping by Medtronic; it's smaller than a penny.

So we tell the for-profit sector, "Spend, spend, spend on advertising, until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value."

So the first day we get to New York, my grandmother and I find a penny in the floor of the homeless shelter that my family's staying in.

So we find this penny kind of fossilized in the floor, and we think that a very wealthy man must have left it there because regular people don't just lose money.

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