Sentence examples for about the dime from inspiring English sources

Not only does Sides include a brief chapter about the dime novel's depiction of Carson; his book is full of the blood-and-thunder's rhythm and romance and, especially, its gushing relish of violence.

There's something objectionable about the dime-store morality of Julie Frencherooking her way out of her job in a call centre helping victims of 9/11.

Mr. Johnson, who moved to New York after the bombing, said he does not tell new friends about what happened that day, brushing off questions about the dime-sized scar on his shoulder.

Farrah Fawcett's 1987 mini-series "Poor Little Rich Girl" -- about Barbara Hutton, the dime-store heiress whose driver would carry her to her car because she was too rich to walk -- was a big deal that season on television.

Correction: October 20 , 2002 Sunday The On Language column on Oct. 6, about the phrase "off the dime," misspelled the surname of a writer who used a variation of the phrase in a 1926 novel.

She thought about the parties there were supposed to be in New York, and the boy from Exeter Gabriela was thinking about sleeping with, and the dime bag Gabriela was trying to get.

The European press is in awe of Barack Obama not simply because he is not George Bush (though that alone certainly generates excitement), nor because America seems about to turn on the dime of its long, racist history, but because, despite its long disdain for our vulgarities, Europe must know on some level that what is happening here cannot happen there.

Tell Congress to get off the dime and do something about income inequality!

(A kilowatt-hour sells for about a dime and will move a car three or four miles).

It is about as close to truth as the myth of the Trojan Horse or the dime-store novels about Billy the Kid.

Use a new toothpick for each field to mix the blood with the impregnation, creating an about dime-sized smear.