Sentence examples for put dimes from inspiring English sources

I used to be able to put quarters up my nose, now I can only put dimes.

Then he went to the basement and started to put dimes into one of the typewriters, topping it up every half-hour.

Plus, she stopped me from putting dimes or nickels in my penny loafers because was something only mannish boys did.

Besides the opening number that finds the swells putting dimes in Automat slots, there's a funny march for the downtrodden about downsizing the patriotic urge: "We'll just have two cheers instead of three/For the land of the brave and the free!" Hard luck keeps dogging the characters' heels, but music keeps lifting their spirits back up.

But in recent months the city has been lavishing $9m on trees, kiosks, a bronze gateway, benches and, from August 9th, bright green "giving meters", parking meters that have been adapted to take change from passers-by.These meters, their inventors believe, will encourage donors who are reluctant to put their dimes into a paper cup.

"I was the negotiator usually but Mike was the guy who put the dimes and the dollars where they belonged.

The New Yorker, September 6 , 1941P. 9 At a party at a beach club, one of the guests surprised everybody with a sleight-of-hand trick: you put a dime in a milk bottle, shake the bottle hard from side to side, and out pops the dime, right through the glass.

By Russell Maloney and R. H. McKee The New Yorker, September 6 , 1941P. 9 At a party at a beach club, one of the guests surprised everybody with a sleight-of-hand trick: you put a dime in a milk bottle, shake the bottle hard from side to side, and out pops the dime, right through the glass.

"I don't put a dime into anything," she said.

She never put another dime into our joint checking account.

He had forgotten to put a dime in his own meter.