How to Use yen in a Sentence

yen

noun

• That's all well and good when the cost to borrow yen is low.
  — Matthew J. Belvedere,paulina Likos,zev Fima,morgan Chittum, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
• The shares were priced at 1,450 yen each.
  — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025
• Rooms start at around 15,000 yen.
  — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
• Rooms start at around 20,000 yen a night.
  — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
• One left it in yen, while the other bought gold and forgot about it.
  — Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
• This augurs poorly for yen bulls.
  — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
• This explains why sudden yen gyrations tend to blow up a hedge fund or two.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• The Japanese yen has sharply reversed course in the past two weeks.
  — Frances Yoon, WSJ, 19 July 2023
• Not even the most egregious disaster can thwart a would-be theater mogul with an oldies yen.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• Rooms start at around 50,000 yen a night, or about $320.
  — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
• Tokyo wants to appear to be fighting a weak yen, while welcoming it in private.
  — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
• The currency used in Japan is called yen which consists of both paper cash and coins.
  — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2023
• Here, Shanté says, shoving a few thousand yen into his hands.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• But the cheap yen is almost certain to be a plus for tourism, a key revenue for the world’s third largest economy.
  — Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 17 Nov. 2022
• But her monthly pay was only 140,000 yen.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
• The price was 35 million yen ($223,000).
  — Tim Hornyak, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
• And Japan has little to show for those decades of zero rates and a chronically weak yen.
  — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
• The price was 83 million yen ($530,000).
  — Tim Hornyak, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
• People needing dollars, euros, yen or yuan must offer more pesos to get them.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2025
• Investors have sold off Japanese government bonds and yen in the past weeks.
  — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2026
• Japan’s jump is due, in part, to its strong yen performance against the dollar in 2025.
  — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
• Revenue was up 53 percent, with the weak yen accounting for nearly a third of that.
  — Gavin J Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
• Its strength in that market became a challenge when a weaker yen impacted the bottom line.
  — Diane Brady, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Japan, for instance, has access to a Fed swap line, which allows Tokyo to trade yen for dollars.
  — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026
• Apparently, there is a yen in some people to own historic artifacts that can be put on the wall and seen as art.
  — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
• The country is contending with a rising cost-of-living and a weak yen that hit a 40-year low this week.
  — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 23 July 2026
• Japan's yen recently touched its lowest value against the dollar in 40 years.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
• Record high inflation and a weak yen are also squeezing households and driving up living costs.
  — Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
• Some stalls will boil or grill a whole crab on the spot (10,000 to 40,000 yen).
  — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
• That lands at about 7,100 yen a night, well under the 13,000-yen line.
  — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026