dollar sign

noun

: a mark $ placed before a number to indicate that it stands for dollars

called also dollar mark

Examples of dollar sign in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This damsel has been viewed as a human dollar sign, an offering and someone expected to be pretty and keep quiet. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024 There’s no talking about anything without a dollar sign being attached to it. —

Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2024 Last week, a cartoon was circulated on Instagram by pro-Palestinian student groups, showing a hand marked with a star of David and a dollar sign holding nooses around the necks of a Black man and an Arab. —

Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024 Copied from a newsletter published by students in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, the image features a Black man and an Arab man with nooses around their necks, held by a hand imprinted with the Star of David that has a dollar sign in the middle of the star. —

NBC News, 21 Feb. 2024 The drawing shows a white hand, marked with a dollar sign inside a Star of David, tightening nooses around the necks of a Black man and an Arab man. —

Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024 For Max and his team, selling insurance isn’t just policies and dollar signs. —

Kyle Russell, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024 Paint a mural or inspiring scene on your piggy bank—like dollar signs or 100s. —

Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Jan. 2024 This is the trend cycle — dollar signs in its eyes — working as intended: an antique hits shelves once more just as those very products have been cleared out of makeup bags and tossed in the trash. —

Emily Leibert, Allure, 25 Jan. 2024

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