Examples of drachma in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web What is more, the very existence of a single currency smothered the market signals that would have come from, say, a separate drachma or lira, market signals that have averted or lessened many disasters in the past. — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, "The EU’s Vaccine Shambles — and How a Distrust of Free Markets Made It Worse," 26 Mar. 2021 All that was needed to make this happen was to drop a five-drachma coin into a slot in the urn, just as a young lady would do at an underground station to get a box of almonds. — Vladimir Nabokov, The New Yorker, "Man and Things," 8 Nov. 2019 Fears about the euro flared up again in 2015 as the left-wing Syriza party took control of Greece amid rumblings about a return to the drachma. — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, "Italy and the Euro Crisis: How We Got Here," 29 May 2018 Would Greece leave the euro and return to the drachma? — A.e. Stallings, WSJ, "Athens Today and Yesterday," 28 July 2017 Thanks to the debt crisis, some Greek officials are contemplating dumping the common currency for the drachma. — David Wolman, WIRED, "Dream of Universal Currency Just Won’t Die," 27 Dec. 2011

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