Sentence examples for shilling from inspiring English sources
The word 'shilling' is correct and usable in written English
The word dates back to the 1500s, so it has a long history of being used in English. You could use 'shilling' to refer to a former British monetary unit, which was worth 1/20th of a pound. For example, "The price of the book was three shillings and sixpence."
noun
A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries.
- The shilling was worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.
I had thought that it was another cold-caller shilling PPI riches but it wasn't.
Mr Cameron entered into the spirit of the thing, making no bones about the fact that he was shilling for Britain.
It is in this latter area, shilling for cars (rather than motorists), that ADAC has got itself into trouble.
Her recipe for mayonnaise is one of the most heartbreaking passages ever written in English:"Melt 1oz of margarine in ½ teacup milk, and when the mixture is warm put through a cream machine the five shilling kind which many of us bought before the war and still, I expect, possess.
The problem, as he was only too happy to explain, was that "much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate and what I'm trying to do".What that meant in practice was shilling for money over the internet and turning in some incandescently angry debate performances.
But the lack of an official printing press able to expand the money supply has given the pre-1992 shilling a certain cachet.
Selling savvy, it seems, counts for more every year.Price can also rise as a result of less savoury practices, such as shilling, when a seller covertly places so-called "shill" bids with the aim of driving up the sale price.
The skulduggery has come to light in a new study of two murderesses, Margaret Higgins and her sister Catherine Flanagan, who were hanged in March 1884.Working-class 1884.Working-classhouseholdsl used to pay insuranorthremiums of a shiLiverpoolso a month (a few poused in today's money) to meet burial costs and the needs of those freshly widowed or orpayned.
Mankind, except for some nostalgic shilling-and-furlong Englishmen, counts in tens instead of twos save for fractions, where people have sometimes been willing to concede that decimalisation is not all it is cracked up to be.
The old British ten-shilling note disappeared in 1969, replaced by the new 50-pence piece.
This was a 20-shilling piece.
