How to Use nickel in a Sentence

nickel

noun

• Al-Shaair was a starter who came off the field when the 49ers went to their nickel defense.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
• Nikko Reed was outside and Cole Martin was a nickel on the drive.
  — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2023
• The margin of error for attaching the skirt is one-tenth of an inch, the width of a nickel.
  — Saumya Gupta, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• Elliott played some nickel and more down in the box in past seasons, as well.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
• Walk-on Christopher Wallace filled in at Husky (nickel) safety the rest of the way.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 4 Sep. 2023
• There’s also a leather strap and nickel buckle to complete the look.
  — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2023
• And my sister and I would throw shows in our basement and charge other kids a nickel.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• But for us, the chance to add Kelvin as a guy that can play inside and out but has played the nickel and did in the preseason here well.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2023
• Get nickel and dimed every few miles on toll roads back East.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• At the heart of the trade-off are Indonesia’s unrivaled stocks of nickel.
  — Peter S. Goodman Ulet Ifansasti, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• The country’s sole nickel mine in use is in the Upper Peninsula.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2023
• One time, a Vietnamese woman and her kid counted nickels on my counter to pay for a bill.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• In the electric-vehicle business, the quandary is known as the nickel pickle.
  — Jon Emont, WSJ, 4 June 2023
• Nickelback is a peptide made of 13 amino acids which bonds to two nickel ions.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2023
• Kelvin Joseph continues to work at nickel in a chance to jump start his career.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 5 June 2023
• But Thomas has put in time at corner and nickel during his career.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2023
• At the business end is a nickel-silver black hook, whose gap is wide enough for sizeable bait and catfish.
  — Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• The group was forced to briefly halt trading in nickel following the Trafigura crisis.
  — Byryan Hogg, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
• Earth’s inner core, believed to be a 762-mile mix of iron and nickel that makes up less than 1 percent of Earth’s volume, isn’t easy to study.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
• The X-ray showed there were actually two coins — a dime and a nickel — both of which have since disappeared.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2023
• It’s made up of mostly iron and some nickel, along with a few other elements.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
• One example is there is a high demand for nickel, but a not so high supply.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• The company signed a deal in May with Vale S.A. for nickel used in battery production.
  — Jon Markman, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• And in true New York City form, the most meaningful gifts didn’t come in diamond but in brass, silver, nickel, and steel: house keys.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2023
• Yet this is the second scandal involving fake nickel in as many months.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
• Prices for cobalt are down 25%, according to the research firm and price provider, while nickel prices on the London Metal Exchange are down 45%.
  — Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023
• Each piece is plated with copper nickel, silver and 24-carat gold.
  — Charna Flam, Variety, 27 June 2023
• Native wild lupine Lupinus perennis is the sole host plant for Karner blues, a small blue butterfly about the size of a nickel.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
• My advice, first get a job, pick their brains, learn on someone else’s nickel, then start your company and eat their lunch.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2023
• These changes came after years of complaints by fans that Disney had been nickel-and-diming its guests.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024