Sentence examples for dollars point from inspiring English sources

When bidders scoff at the seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, point at the socks and say, "These are kneesocks and a turtleneck".

Peer2 gets around the ban by offering users points instead of dollars; points are redeemable for Amazon products.

China may now dominate Hong Kong's trade, but much of that trade is still priced in dollars, points out Li-Gang Liu of ANZ, a bank.

"A year ago people weren't buying anything online that cost more than a couple of dollars," points out Lamond.

But commodity prices and the dollar point to price pressures ahead.

I'm not a psychologist, [but] my guess is not very much, because if it's gotten to the five cents on the dollar point the borrowers will have psychologically distanced themselves I'm guessing".

With millions of colonoscopies performed each year and specialists advising all Americans over 50 to be screened, the proper use of this anesthetic could become a multibillion-dollar point of contention.

At dinner other travellers recount their adventures: diving the wreck of the SS President Coolidge, an ocean liner serving as a troopship that was sunk by mines off Million Dollar Point in 1942; and scrambling over giant river boulders through the Millennium Cave, a challenging hike led by villagers who benefit directly from the tourist dollars.

They take me swimming in the Matevulu and Nanda blue holes (spectacular); snorkelling in the eerie underwater junkyard museum that is Million Dollar Point (the Americans drove trucks, bulldozers and jeeps off a jetty here at the war's end); and introduce me to Peter, the local chief, and his grandchildren at gorgeous Champagne beach.

It skyrocketed from that dollar point, eventually managing a $39.93 billion market capitalization in the closing days of 2013.

The billion-dollar point is interesting, given the current focus inside of the technology industry's infatuation with 'unicorns,' or companies that are worth more than a flat billion.