When the repair guy came, he said it was going to cost over three hundred dollars to fix the pipe. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He wanted to make sure we understood the project, and he said he wondered who would be the first one to find a dollar word. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He kept thinking about the fifty dollars and how much he wanted it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The journey around Indianapolis cost about seven dollars in gas, and I knew it was wasteful, but I felt so much better after circling the city. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He took the money out—a thin roll of demon dollar bills—and tossed the birdhouse down. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A hundred thousand dollars,” he said, and offered it to me. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the time she gets a few hundred dollars saved up here and there, the pipes start leaking or the roof needs fixing. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Another cowboy said, “That’s a killer horse. He knows what he’s doing. It could be five hundred dollars but someone will get killed before they break that horse.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found a dollar once in a parking lot. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

That, added to the six dollars weekly from Mr. Platernis and four apiece from the other three stores, made a total income of thirty dollars a week. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you owed him five dollars he’d make you pay back ten. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The five dollars his father had advanced reduced Jody to peonage for the whole late spring and summer. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I lost Megan's money, too? A hundred and four dollars of her money? Oh, CRUD." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Thing! had got lesions, so lesions were hip now, real hip, and mine looked like a million dollars. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figure each mile could be worth as much as a thousand dollars, if I can get the fish to the dock before it goes bad. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty dollars was more than what had been my weekly paycheck. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

His mother made ten dollars a week sewing for a tailor down the street, and Harry was an only child. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He came without fail every noontime, from his little basement restaurant up near the Polo Grounds; the joke was he never lasted more than two minutes... but he always left twenty dollars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glided over to the fireplace mantel, and placed a dollar bill in a glass Mason jar. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, I grab the cheapest one in my size, but even the cheapest one is almost twenty-five dollars. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Auntie An-mei had saved two thousand dollars, all to spend on her brother’s family. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She earned thirty dollars a week and got along fine, except at night, when, like all Rommely women, she found it hard to get along without a man. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her supplies, once she had made the original purchase of bucket and long-handled squeegee, cost her five dollars a week. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They noted the things he carried: “$20 in greenback, two silver dollars, and...a gold watch.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In December, after my last paycheck of the month, I had sixty dollars in my account. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For her birthday, she got a silver dollar; at Christmas, she got a gift of snuff. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Back in my room I counted my savings, some fifty dollars, and decided to get to New York as quickly as possible. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why I never saw fifty dollars until I was twenty-one years old, with all the other boys with the afternoon off and all day Saturday and me working in a store. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re supposed to leave a dollar or something in the collection box and light a candle in memory of someone. And, I guess, say a prayer if you want.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Matney weighed it carefully—more than four hundred pounds!—and then counted out the twenty-two dollars and fifty cents he figured he owed us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I took twenty dollars from my babysitting stash, grabbed my glue stick, and ran back downstairs. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m still not sure I heard you right. Did you say I now have over fifty thousand dollars?” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

This theft would come to several hundred dollars in value, but more important it would ruin the high moral tone of the party. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hustler intended to pawn a suit for ten dollars to attend and patronize the bazaar. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It takes a long time to save forty dollars,” he said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The fee for supplies and use of the darkroom is fifty dollars, which can be paid in cash or your parents can write me a check.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They gave her twenty-five dollars, which was a ton of money in those days. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that’s how Mr. Abbas agreed to pay my sister five dollars for every mug rug she gave him at the next Bible study, which was after the summer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Forty-four dollars will be the most I’ve ever held in my hand at once. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know about that—but it’s worth ten dollars to walk him,” Tressa says. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

A hundred and fifty-seven dollars after three months of working. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Please. Don’t talk about it anymore. The whole business is sacrilegious. Goodness knows what degenerate uses he will find for that hat. Do you have the fifteen dollars on you?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How to raise a thousand dollars without being noticed by Burton. It is impossible.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now that the pile of rocks had turned out to be worth millions of dollars, he said, “everybody wants to get in here and get some of this money.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Three hundred dollars? Really? My passport was much, much, much less than that.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I know it’s not enough to pay for all of college, Professor Buzzkill. But it is fifty thousand dollars, which will make college a hell of a lot easier.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It had taken her years to save five dollars, she had hoarded pennies to accumulate such a sum. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he saw the prices he was glad X-Ray had brought over the three hundred dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the cash register I found twenty dollars, a few golden drachmas, and some packing slips for Hermes Overnight Express, each with a little leather bag attached for coins. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But a dollar will only buy you 170 calories of fruit juice from concentrate. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The boss had to make out a check for nearly four hundred dollars—the balance due on the involuntarily canceled account. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sticks the rolled dollar bill into one nostril and runs it over the line, sniffing deeply. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

By rough estimates, it had cost the town approximately two and a half to three dollars a week for over two years just to ticket Onofre Martinez. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They want us to fight four rounds for five dollars apiece,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, I forget how to convert Pakistani currency into dollars. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I had only three dollars and wished I could give more. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was like sticking a wrinkly dollar into a candy machine over and over and having it spit the dollar out over and over, for a year, with a gun to your head. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My mom usually gives them whatever change she has in her pockets or a dollar. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The highest bounty I’ve ever seen is five hundred thousand dollars. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If you think my family is living in this moldy corner of hell for the fifty dollars a month!” she practically shouted at him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thirty-four dollars. All artificial, so it will last forever. You can pay me later. Janice and Matthew also chip in some. You have money?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had advanced ten thousand dollars of the seventy-six thousand needed. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seventy dollars’ worth of heavy,” I say, smiling. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She plays with the dirt they’ve dug up from the yard and threatens to put the dollar bill into her mouth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s all right who it is. I can buy it for twenty-five dollars.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Dowdel, I feel I must tell you that Mrs. L. J. Weidenbach, the banker’s wife, has offered fifteen dollars for that stovepipe hat.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The chamber of commerce is also sponsoring a quilt competition with a grand prize of five hundred dollars contributed by local businesses. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I take a bowl of green Jell-O and hand her a few dollars without waiting for my change. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Local businesses posted rewards offering thousands of dollars for information leading to an arrest. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Three years after launching their paper, Anthony and Stanton sold it for one dollar, and it was turned into a literary journal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was looking for someone to direct him to using his dollars in a way that would make a real difference in the world. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“You have twelve dollars in your pocket right now.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she shoved the dollar back into her pocket. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

With the help of family and friends in the Sudanese community, Shamsoun raised more than two thousand dollars so he could attend the inauguration of President Barack Obama with a student group. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They had to pay a man forty-five dollars to clean it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

With most of us, even when we are lucky enough to get our revenge, we must pay for it, sometimes in actual dollars. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve made three thousand dollars so far today, and I’m not even half through.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

My father gave me twenty dollars and the keys to his car, saying, “Thanks for sticking around. It meant a lot to me and the family.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They seemed to be good people. Sometimes, Abra, the strangest medicines are effective. I wonder if it would help if they knew Aron has just inherited over a hundred thousand dollars.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Sairy thinks maybe five dollars would be about right,” he said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m asking for help from a friend to pay a debt, that’s all. Ten thousand dollars is nothing to someone like you.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There aren’t any ten dogs that are worth five hundred dollars.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, if I didn’t think she could sing, I wouldn’t give you six hundred dollars.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Everyone claps, and some even throw dollar bills at me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Accruing half a million dollars in high-interest loan debt for an engineering degree I can steal online? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

In 2006 an NIH researcher gave thousands of tissue samples to the pharmaceutical company Pfizer in exchange for about half a million dollars. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He explained how the HeLa contamination problem happened, then said, “Her cells caused millions of dollars in damage. Seems like a bit of poetic justice, doesn’t it?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the summer ended, I returned to BYU with only two thousand dollars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Like if you lost a dollar, you might get in trouble, but it wasn’t a big worry if your father had another dollar to give you. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you know that ninety-seven cents is almost a dollar?” she asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I check it out and it works then it’s going to be eight dollars,” Carl said, messing with the lady. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were each given five dollars and a train ticket. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It won’t be enough to cover your payment, two hundred and fifty dollars.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘The sun will come out tomorrow’ and ‘bet your bottom dollar’ and all that. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

"It was of this man sitting on a stoop just like we're doing now. And it was selling for like four thousand dollars." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Fives and tens, at least three hundred dollars. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of each week, they gave us a little silver disk about the size of a half dollar. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat naked on her bed and looked at her life, in this tiny room with the moldy carpet, the hundred dollar bill on the table, her body rising with loathing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

By i860 the rewards offered for her capture totaled sixty thousand dollars. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as The Spread Eagle paid her a dollar a column for her ‘rubbish’, as she called it, Jo felt herself a woman of means, and spun her little romances diligently. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one dollar a day, you can make a difference in this child’s life. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Ten dollars?” she says, like she was talking in her sleep. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is a shame. Because today the lunch special is two for one dollar.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

And we had to talk the seller down from a dollar to sixty cents. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It had three dollars and eighty cents in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put five dollars in, Ritchie had no money, Audrey handed over a few dollars, and Marv went through his pockets and put in a twenty- cent coin and a pen lid. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was convicted of violating the Jim Crow law and fined five dollars. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Liberty Head silver dollar mentioned in Ned’s letter had taken its place on the sill, next to the Wiggle King fishing lure. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Yup. The Toyota’s at the repair shop. If he’s right, we could be looking at four hundred dollars, minimum.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I found a wrinkled and damp five dollar bill. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve just cost us millions of dollars in advertising revenue, early bird.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

You might remember that my father knows that I’m making five dollars every Saturday morning. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But as soon as we were out the door, she was her old self again, chatting nonstop about a kid in her class who lost a tooth and got ten dollars from the Tooth Fairy. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita touched Salvador’s arm as he came out of the kitchen stuffing dollars into his pockets. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It’s like saying you’ll get one hundred million dollars at the end of the year. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

‘Just a dollar, dude? Maybe you could send me a little more on Venmo.’ Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Got the whole bag for a dollar ninety-nine.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Those in attendance paid one dollar to participate in the meeting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some of them would even give him a few dollars for his help. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

We drive slowly through a sleepy downtown with a cafe, a clothing store, a dollar store, and a couple boarded-up storefronts. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

At their peak, his team brought in over four thousand dollars a day. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Two days later, my dad and I learned the news: Tía Gloria was giving us ten thousand dollars. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Because I knew my parents didn’t have hundreds—or thousands—of dollars to pay for a lawyer. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Except for the forty dollars she didn’t want to spend, she was almost out of money. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were also about five hundred dollars cheaper to build than real cattleguards. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someday there will be fifty dollars and somewhere on this long island is a piece of land that you may buy for that money. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slide two dollar bills across the desk. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I get two dollars a week and my meals. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that manual labor can be done in developing countries for two dollars a day, skills and education have become more essential than ever. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And then someone bid ten dollars, trading his ten- dollar bill for Mr. Warren’s. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Pleased with his success, he already had his third dime on the table and waited for one last game to claim his silver dollar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I figured that it was an extra dollar I didn't have before. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“DARLING, just try it on your head. It cost eleven dollars. It must be good.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His father had paid human traffickers twenty thousand dollars, the family’s entire savings, to get them out of Afghanistan into neighboring Pakistan. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In the coming year, Dad would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars buying equipment and scouring the mountain for water. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When they came back, they were half a dollar poorer, twenty minutes older, and decidedly more swaggering at the walk. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had bought a small house in town for less than twelve thousand dollars, which is what she could afford. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to being elderly, toothless, and incontinent, it seemed that, for the cost of a few thousand dollars, she could also spend three days a week hooked up to a machine. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The force of the blow chipped a divot as large as a silver dollar from the Sherpa’s skull, knocked him unconscious, and sent him into cardiopulmonary arrest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

When Tiller had paid Florida twenty dollars for the first afternoon’s work, she rushed up to the loft to show Dallas. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Look! This ground beef is on sale for a dollar!” she says. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Shorty told me that he played at least a dollar a day on the numbers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that the lint and tobacco in their pants pockets where dollar bills should have been was the measure. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark-haired man said, “Pretty close to a hundred dollars.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many who could ill afford it gave a dollar here, a dollar there, to show their support. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The answer turns out to be about ten million dollars, which should make us all feel a little better. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you can learn a lot from TV. I watched a show about billionaires. There was this Wall Street guy and his supermodel wife. They spent twenty million dollars on their baby’s first birthday party.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I earned thirteen dollars a week and I had to support four people with it, and should I risk that thirteen dollars by acting idealistically? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hoo did, but he was in no mood for humor; ten thousand dollars was at stake. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had saved every cent he could from his allowance and had even sneaked a folded and greasy dollar bill from his father’s pocket last night when he arrived home, half-drunk and wobbly. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she put it on the table, his practiced eye picked out the amount: two hundred dollars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Liberia, I met with President Tubman, who not only gave me five thousand dollars for weapons and training, but said in a quiet voice, “Have you any pocket money?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Smith had raised an additional hundred dollars in less than twenty-four hours! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

For two hundred and eighty dollars a month. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The cops found it and two hundred and fifty dollars in his pockets. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I looked in my pocketbook and counted out a dollar bill and seventy-nine cents in dimes and nickels and pennies. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Do you want the dollar?” the man asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hear her but I’d bet a million dollars she was shouting, “Why?” over and over like a real nut. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could do without five dollars a week, but I couldn’t live without helping Fig get well. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was only twelve and Arnold had sold twelve thousand shares of Walleye for four dollars a share. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Are you serious? Yes! I was dying to go but they’re like eighty dollars each. Wait, how did you get tickets?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I walk into Miss Walters’, Miss Hilly be there and she try to give me twenty dollars. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I remembered that the letter mentioned the silver dollar, fishing lure, and skeleton key. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Felix wasn't worried about the paper with their names coming out of the wallet; he was worried about getting the twenty dollars back in. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a few dollars in here,” he called up. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shoot, you can buy a bottle of the worst whiskey for five dollars. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Another kid thanked me for his two hundred dollars. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“One dollar six cents, two cents left over.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how I got twenty-two cream puffs for two dollars and eighty cents less than I should have—plus two more free, since they come cheaper by the dozen. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Spareribs’ big sister won fifty dollars at a movie bank night. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The radio informed us the two American boxers would be paid five million American dollars each, from our treasury, for coming here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides doing so well in school, he earned twenty-five dollars a week. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Akira’s pajamas held twenty as well, so altogether they had a hundred dollars. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He pulled out two dollars but nothing else. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He had given me an extra five dollars. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

With an allowance of fifteen dollars a month for mowing the lawn every week. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And they would provide him with money—over a million US dollars. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Scheefly gave him a dollar on a Saturday night for playing the whole evening. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But scientists all over the world could call in orders, pay less than fifty dollars, and Microbiological Associates would overnight them vials of HeLa cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

"You can still have your dollar. You did your part." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She had been a squatter for almost fifteen years, and the city had finally decided to sell the apartments to her and the other squatters for one dollar apiece. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell that to George Finkle when you miss your million dollar shot,” she said. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of them bothered to point out that baseball teams cost way more than five million dollars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The dollar rose by a factor of more than ten between 1920 and now, so that's more than thirty-five thousand dollars in today's dollars. A lot of tours at eleven bucks apiece.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

There was eighteen dollars and sixty-two cents in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At four o’clock in the morning he decided on seventy dollars a ticket. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

As soon as Mother was gone, I felt for the dollar in my pocket. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I counted out five U.S. dollars to pay for the steel tubing and bar stock we were to use that day. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If things got worse in Europe, philanthropic spending would grind to a halt in the United States; even if the war clouds dispelled, millions of dollars would shift to Europe for economic reconstruction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Joe said one of the posters was the one he’d read to them before and the reward for him had been increased to two thousand dollars. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For you, and for you,” she said, handing us each a dollar bill. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“A week’s not nearly enough time for a good quilt. But for five hundred dollars, I’m dang sure going to try.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Only five are prepared to part with the requisite two dollars, and they form a surly line. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But Mom gets to keep her ten thousand dollars, and her twenty-one-hundred- dollar cash bonus. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was a game: the vendors wanting more money than Mami was willing to spend, but both of them knowing that eventually, she would part with her dollars and they would get them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When I came out of the store I was happy to find that I still had nearly a hundred dollars. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Government cars, and they paid the land-grant association five thousand dollars not to ask questions about the test holes they were drilling. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had one word on it, stupid, and it wasn’t even a dollar word. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Every dollar of it had to come from some person, a man or woman. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Workers in rural areas, which are home to two-thirds of the population, earn less than a dollar a day on average. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I hate to think we won't make it past this point, but we only have sixteen dollars left in Max's bag. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She took over the typewriter keys, and I think by the time I backed out of the room with the twenty-five dollars, she had forgotten I was there. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nine thousand dollars for a watch? he thought. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mama sent Francie over to Sissy’s house to borrow two dollars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weeks later, she was still thousands of dollars short. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She could squeeze two cents till they begged for mercy, let alone two dollars. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Customs House collected tens of millions of dollars in duties on these products, and this money made up a large part of the U.S. government's income. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you can. I’m not saying you can’t. But you never know. A bird in the hand. Ninety dollars, Armpit, for just a morning’s work. Hard to beat that.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Betty Jean took a moment to think, then said, “Would a dollar a week be okay? I know it’ll take almost a year for us to repay you, but...” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have fourteen dollars left after I paid to get to the Howard campus, so I just ask for water. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Lord knows, he and Perry could use them; their combined finances amounted at the moment to less than five dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daily rental prices varied, depending on the horse and planned use, but the cost was usually under a dollar a day. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of dollars down the toilet, and here I am, dancing to this awful waltz with all of my boy cousins, some of whom I hardly know, most of whom don’t even like me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Nora is sandwiched between both beaming, proud parents, screaming at the top of her lungs, and Luna is throwing Claremont campaign pamphlets in the air like a mafioso with hundred dollar bills. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In his left back pocket, he carries a Susan B. Anthony silver dollar. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"At least the guilt is not on our hands," Mr. Hoo said, trying to convince himself that a clear conscience was worth two hundred million dollars. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached for her purse and took out ten dollars. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s enough, Luke. I must say, this isn’t a word I was expecting, but nonetheless, it’s our first dollar word. Congratulations.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Something like a few thousand dollars worth of luggage. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

If she lost, even with two hundred and eight dollars. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

And the Truman students who enroll at more expensive colleges—even solid but not exclusive institutions like Temple University in Philadelphia—often must take out tens of thousands of dollars in loans. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He needed to earn almost fifty-three dollars to win the bet. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

With the addition of the dress, the new total is 234 dollars. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

By the time he decided, there was only six hundred dollars in cash left in the envelope under the refrigerator. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

If Mary Jackson didn’t know how to get something done, you could bet a dollar to a USO doughnut she’d find the person who did. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Everybody said Miss Minner had sold her brains to a famous doctor for ten thousand dollars, so that after she was dead he could cut them up and see why she was so smart. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

American agencies had spent about a billion dollars to stop a full-blown outbreak. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how many upper-middle-class kids spent hundreds of dollars on SAT courses to try to boost their scores. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Because unfortunately I only have seven dollars and sixty-eight cents.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t possess cash, cassette players with a record function, toiletries containing alcohol, sneakers worth more than fifty dollars, or more than fourteen newspapers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I needed was about a dollar and a half in change to talk to Hirohito. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Not yet, my boy. I sense you will be needed here. Which reminds me ...” He brought out a sand dollar and pressed it into my hand. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m selling mine for a buck apiece. What’s he getting for his ?” “A dollar and a penny.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Stock prices and the dollar’s value dropped sharply as investors anticipated a national crisis. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mean Lady Ming laid a dollar bill and a few coins on the counter. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She give me a kiss and five dollars. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’d written more than sixty pieces for Outside over the previous fifteen years, and seldom had the travel budget for any of these assignments exceeded two or three thousand dollars. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The waitress brings me a bonus: two silver- dollar patties of beef and pork, dipped in egg and fried. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you sold my three thousand shares for four dollars?” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

It also offered room and board and the stunning sum of ten dollars a week on top of this. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Quickly, quickly: you go to your room and grab a five- dollar bill, the only cash you have at the moment, from your desk drawer. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He ended up buying a fifty-dollar car for seventy-five dollars out of a young man’s yard. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s fifty dollars. Surely you could use that for something.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Roy Lee said he’d only been in there one time to get change for a dollar and they had given him four rubbers instead. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The grant was a great honor, but when converted into dollars it was not generous. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You’re ashamed to take it. God, boy, don’t let a thing like that stop you from taking a dollar and eating.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In total, X-Ray gave him five hundred and thirty dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

What good was having millions of dollars at your fingertips if you couldn’t use it to buy what you really, really needed? Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She thought I wouldn’t come because of the thirty dollars it would cost in fuel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the man with rundown heels ahead of me was chained to a million dollars! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Francie was raised to twenty dollars a week, Mama gave her five dollars a week for herself to pay for her carfare, lunches, and clothes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hamilton gave me a shoe box of ten thousand dollars in ten dollar bills. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The court fined each of the protesters twenty-five dollars. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“How about a ten-week contract at five thousand dollars a week?” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Felix clicked download, and a few seconds later, a giant dollar sign spun on the screen with the words Penny Doubled Challenge pulsing beneath. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally Lucky said, “So I guess the car’s all right for a while. I just put sixty dollars’ worth of equipment in her and spent all of last Sunday working on her.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I believed that hundred dollars was a sign from God. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Doing millions of neutralization tests using monkey cells would cost millions of dollars. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Earl Wakefield caught a sculpin with two heads and sold it to the museum for eight dollars. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stretch a million dollars in the hood? Okay.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A potbellied man in a deerstalker hat offered three dollars for a five-dollar set of candlesticks and Soraya let him have it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I empty the sock out and count all the change and dollar bills: $19.78. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“And she works in the bargain and earns twenty dollars a week now.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She offered to buy it for four thousand North Korean won, which was worth about four dollars at black-market exchange rates. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Even if I were able to make seven dollars an hour, it’d take me forever to save up, and by then, this piano would probably be gone. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Tickets were fifteen dollars each, with the proceeds going to cover the rental of the space for two hours on a Wednesday night. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The balance showed over one million dollars, but there was also a red banner that told him to contact his financial institution. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Look magazine wanted to compete against its chief publishing rival, Life, which had paid a half million dollars for the exclusive rights to the story of the Mercury 7 project. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

So Sammy staked me, about twenty dollars, I think it was. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said there was a dealer who worked out of a backyard who could sell her something in the morning for American dollars. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And sure enough, the student council has approved a thousand dollars for the staging and production of the musical Tiny Dancer. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Sold during the Depression for a nickel, they now fetch upward of six hundred dollars. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Yet that box will sell for close to four dollars. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When Teller said that Fermi would need tens of thousands of dollars to build a preliminary reactor to test conditions for a chain reaction, Adamson responded scornfully. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If you were delivering telegrams for Western Union in New York you’d be earning twenty-five dollars a week and living in luxury. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It cost six dollars. 4TH JUROR: It’s against the law to buy or sell switchblade knives. 8TH JUROR: That’s right. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None of them high and mighty folks in Montpelier offered to pay me a hundred dollars not to report a runaway, now have they?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo rang up my donut on the register, and I pulled my dollar out of my pocket. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’m so busy thinking about what I’d do with the million dollars that I don’t notice Angel marching over to our table. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I counted out each $5 bill, each crumpled dollar, each coin. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The converter attachment, which had cost them one hundred dollars, automatically supplied her name whenever the announcer addressed his anonymous audience, leaving a blank where the proper syllables could be filled in. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But how can a track team raise twenty thousand dollars?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mind missing sleep for a hundred dollars,” she says, waving the money in my face. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“As stated, the township of Manifest has the first rights to the land upon payment of back taxes and the land fee in the amount of one thousand dollars.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Slipped in at the end was the question the experimenters really wanted an answer to: “What do you feel would be an appropriate dollar amount for undergraduate tuition per year?” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of those notepads, and Xeroxes, and printed e-mails, and photographs of kids, and books, and dollar bills in wallets, and documents in files ... all of them were fuel. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell her not to bother. They’re only keeping me for forty-eight hours,” Dad said, “to, quote, teach me a lesson. Talk about a waste of tax dollars!” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Ten dollars is a lot of—” “Matt!” she clutches at his sleeve. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Once I sat down and crossed my hands on my lap and struck my remorseful, thoughtful, and bright-eyed pose, the woman looked up and asked, "What happened to the ten thousand dollars?" Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

With a driver’s license and the power to negotiate 150 cash dollars out of someone else’s pocket. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He scoops my twenty-two dollars off the windshield and adds it to his roll. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s twenty-five of you. Each give two dollars; quick now, this no time for argument.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter if the prize had been a valuable manuscript or a million dollars or a stuffed walrus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Clarisse pulled a wet Confederate dollar from her pocket and sighed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Southern state court judges and all-white juries were all too willing to rule in favor of “defamed” local officials, and state authorities had won millions of dollars in judgments this way. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

All the same, Dewey could not accept the theory that the family had been slaughtered for paltry profit—“a few dollars and a radio.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had never received state support for our work, and without the federal dollars we faced serious financial challenges. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

What about the two hundred million dollars, the heirs wanted to know. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured I could talk Jimmy into letting me walk with a sandwich, and getting the extra dollar to him later. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A local jury awarded them half a million dollars, and the case was appealed to the U.S. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Corn, that used to cost a few shillings a bushel, cost twenty-five dollars a bushel—in silver. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, rolling my eyes, because I swear he owes me like a hundred dollars from years of not giving back the right change. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Often these were cash-strapped independent merchants and laborers, and I was always surprised by the joy she took in saving a few dollars at their expense. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was lots of swearing and lots of coins being passed ’round and American dollar bills being waved back and forth and held squozed up in fists. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Alex dug into his pocket, pulled out his lunch money, and left three dollars on the counter. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I picked up my winnings this morning—three hundred dollars. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He changed his shirt and put on a stiff new pair of Levis and wiped off his fifty dollar boots with the towel that was still damp from drying his arms and face. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mount Carmel, with its strong Catholic-league basketball team and rigorous curriculum, had seemed the best solution—worth the thousands of dollars it was costing my parents. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“About a hundred and seventy thousand dollars,” Benji said, not looking up from the menu. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I just made five dollars off the county superintendent,” he said, nearly grinning. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

For five dollars, you could get fry bread. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Eight hundred and seventy-six dollars?” he asks on the way home. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Right now, somebody else might be earning ten million dollars; I might already be doomed to return to New York. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I stood up I stuck out my hand and he slapped five dollars into it. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

That would leave them with two dollars and forty-eight cents. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We owe him something after taking ten dollars from him, don’t we?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

But I still don’t think I need to be here, ’specially at almost a hundred dollars an hour. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess six thousand dollars—to me, an unconquerable mountain—isn’t even worth a second thought when you’re a billionaire. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Couldn’t you make that four dollars a week?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you couldn’t feed a cat for four dollars in New York. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Why shouldn’t the Muslims be subsidized to save millions of dollars a year for the government and the cities? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that a deluxe, all-inclusive tour through the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge costs twenty-five dollars per person and lasts roughly three hours. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“My Susan B. Anthony dollar is gone! Somebody took it. Probably while I was posing for pictures before.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I have twenty dollars from picking season,” said Ishmael. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He won the first prize of ten dollars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking one of his fluttering hands, I wrap his fingers tightly around a dollar. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I’d had the money, I could have raised five hundred dollars or more, and he’d have had to call me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bosses did not pull children out of school, and there were schools within walking distance for everyone; the school year was six whole months long, and teachers got monthly pay of thirty dollars. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then on Magazine Street, I paid forty-five dollars to have my hair lightened and trimmed and ironed straight. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"Nope. Ten dollars," Mr. Charles said, pulling the seeds back off the counter. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“How are cookies and raffle tickets going to raise twenty thousand dollars?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He only had two dollars and forty-six cents left over, but he put it all on the counter, promising himself to stop by tomorrow and settle up. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’d give a couple of extra sticks when someone bought ten, which was five dollars’ worth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how George Finkle has a million dollars to give away,” Mom grumbled. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Three dollars and sixteen cents — more than he thought he had. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He needed ten dollars though, and Mama didn’t have the money. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ton of coal, which would last most of the winter, cost about fifty dollars—including delivery—or even as little as thirty dollars for the lower-grade stuff. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

So with four dollars to her name, she set out to make a better life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t know about Keisha, but I couldn’t answer that for a million dollars. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Another time she gave back two fives and three ones as change for ten dollars. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But if we had a million dollars she wouldn’t need her job back. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

His mom had quit one of her jobs, and Apex-7 had returned over a million dollars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

We can make maybe a couple of dollars a day there, and we might hit a pocket.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had about seven dollars, so they could spend about two dollars a day on food. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll always help the needy and infirm, ma’am. Here’s a dollar. That’ll buy a couple of watermelons and keep you going for a couple of days.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fifty cents in certain houses get you the woman, the floor, the walls and the bed. Two dollars get you a woman on a store-bought scooter if you want it.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched Grizzly Bear take Cool Papa’s hat off Train Ear’s head and drop it in the plastic bag along with the mess of dollar bills and coins he removed from Train Ear’s pockets. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Hagar stuffed two hundred dollars and seventy-five cents into her purse and headed downtown, still whispering to herself every now and then, “No wonder.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is a wealthy man. He donates his salary to the college, though he accepts, I think, one dollar a year for tax purposes.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My friends came from poor families, too, but they all had their dollars. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Haircut wasn’t but a dollar—sometimes I cut fifty-eight heads in one day.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I counted ten dollars with the coins the twins have squirreled away.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the Chamber of Commerce improved its gardens, the merchants each gave five dollars but Dora was asked for and gave a hundred. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still needed to earn sixty more dollars. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“More than one hundred thousand dollars,” according to Miles Umlatt’s article in the Island Examiner, “all of it in fifty- and one-hundred-dollar denominations.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Jesus, Celia! I told you we don’t need it! What’s she giving us? A hundred dollars? Two hundred dollars? We don’t need it!” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“And we have five dollars exactly for souvenirs, so you’re out of luck.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like if she finds a dollar, which means God wants her to buy a lotto ticket. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it twenty dollars like the last time?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“I thought I’d get her some with my dollar,” said Beth. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My daughter Kathleen tells me it’s an obsession, that I should write about a little girl who finds a million dollars and spends it all on a Shetland pony. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Grayson continued, “‘The winning piece for the entire state is awarded a cash prize of twenty-five dollars and publication of the story.’” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

All those years in Welch with no food, no coal, no plumbing, and Mom had been sitting on land worth a million dollars? The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako knew that Papa had received ten American dollars as a tip one day. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After school, I babysat for a dollar an hour and could usually do the homework then. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They must be in one hell of a shape if they’ve got to come all the way to Mississippi to steal ten dollars a month. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘That makes a dollar ninety you owe me,” Ginnie said, striding up to the elevator. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

We were denied funding from the state legislature, which we needed to get federal matching dollars. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It cost almost three dollars, but she couldn’t think of what to do about the expense. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened his mouth to speak, and these were the words that came out: "Can I have five dollars?" Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Don’t see how. When my daddy died last year this April it costed one hundred and fifty dollars. ’ The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Yunghans, the librarian, just confirmed that Mr. Lemoncello is the top-secret benefactor who donated all the money to build the new public library. Five hundred million dollars!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

They earned fifty dollars a month which was good pay for people of their class in those days. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five hundred dollars in cash was waiting for him at the hotel. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

With my finger, I tried to measure how full it would be with fifty dollars in it Next I went to the barn and up in the loft. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they had him on the ground, they stole his wallet, which Don Julio claimed had only four dollars in it, and his Timex watch, a gift from his oldest daughter. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Burning through hundreds of thousands of dollars was easier on the weekend than on a weekday. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But he sent it to her anyway, a little over a hundred dollars carefully sealed in a card. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I took the thirty-eight dollars I’d earned selling peaches and stuffed it into the bag with my seven best pairs of panties, the ones that had the days of the week printed across the backside. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jamie nuzzled himself further into the corner of the bus seat and sang, “Twenty-four dollars and forty-three cents.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately after the federal dollars began to flow, law enforcement agencies across the country began to compete for funding, equipment, and training. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So Al Campanis offered Glenn thousands of dollars to find a girlfriend and get married. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

While other states have caps of more than a million dollars, and many have no cap at all, several states impose onerous eligibility requirements. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even mind when she had to leave to work the debate team’s booth—for two dollars, they’d try to help you win any argument. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Never in her life had she had more than one hundred dollars in her hand. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“That looks like several thousand dollars you owe some bank.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Inside the camps, however, workers had been paid less than twenty dollars a month, even if they were doctors! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah; I voted twice. I wasn’t old enough, so I put my age up so I could vote and get the five dollars.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I, uh—" I say, because I don't happen to carry hundred dollar bills around with me. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Lay them on the counter with a dollar. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This board is easily worth fifteen thousand dollars. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s a good buy at seven hundred dollars. ” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, from all of your stocks and bonds right now, over fifty thousand dollars. It’s less because I took out my commission, but I will of course reinvest it.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I would have sued for a million dollars! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give him my dollar and he counts put my change: “Seventy-five cents for the Starbursts!” he announces. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She placed Sissy’s dollar and Evy’s fifty-cent piece on the table. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waited until she received a check for several hundred dollars from the company that was leasing the drilling rights. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I take out my plastic cash bag and pay him one dollar and four quarters. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

X-Ray sold four more tickets to a couple of high school students from Westlake, and just like that, Armpit had another two hundred and seventy dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I grab my wallet from my back pocket, taking out a tightly folded dollar that I keep in there for moments like these. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“So, hand over my Liberty Head silver dollar.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Here, take this dollar and buy yourself some food,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sold what she could, disappointed that she could get only seven hundred dollars for a house that was worth twice as much. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“About half. We still have quite a nest egg. About fifteen million dollars at today's market prices.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Naturally, I wanted to sink the shot to get the million dollars. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The man from the Second Maine said sadly, “You ever hear about our flag? It cost twelve hundred dollars.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every cuss word that follows equals a dollar in Sekani’s jar if he hears it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Subtracting the eighty dollars that she and Megan had spent on lemonade and cups, each girl had made a profit of sixty-four dollars. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Even if they were dollar amounts or cargo numbers, one way or another they all traced back to human beings. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Sneaky slides the dollar into his pocket and is about to close his lunch pack when Aliya Morris comes up and buys two Snickers and a Butterfinger. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The total was over three thousand dollars and growing. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm beginning to see that crops on Mars are extremely prolific, thanks to the billions of dollars' worth of life support equipment around me. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of that, she knew regretfully, she would have to give the ice man a dollar for moving them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sixty-five, seventy, which, with the fifty dollars she had left from the car, made one hundred and twenty, then one hundred and forty dollars, one hundred and fifty. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right. We’re supposed to get him a hundred dollars’ worth of flowers.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The master and his sons laughed as he wiped his face, but the twenty dollars went to new boots and a brocade coat like he’d seen some worthies wear in D.C. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Pizza is the best deal—a dollar fifty will buy two slices, a can of soda, and a cherry Blow Pop from the candy bucket next to the register. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I needed ten or twenty dollars, needed it badly, but I had come in without first deciding what to say. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She used a fat green marker, also swiped from work, to draw a pyramid on April 27, with dollar signs and exclamation points all around it. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I hand over the extra dollar, then rub the sleep from my eyes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Then he reached under the counter and pulled out a dollar and gave it to her. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“How can you do that? Your allowance is only twenty-five cents. Twenty-four forty-three plus twenty-five cents makes only twenty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He handed Mr. Zuckerman two ten dollar bills and a five dollar bill. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muse took out his wallet and gave him two dollars. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Do not ask your brother to buy your gown. He's done enough. And I’d like to buy your dress, but I don't have six thousand dollars to spend. We'll need to find something reasonable.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

In desperation, he called the Times Boston bureau chief, asking him to hurry to the copy shop with six hundred dollars in cash. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“My mama told me to sell her for a dollar,” I said, feeling that I was being too aggressive and trying to switch the moral blame for my aggressiveness to my absent mother. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five dollars is not too much for a king. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Like Peralta, they sign on to illusory schemes that cost hundreds of dollars but almost never pro-duce the promised green cards. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

To climb these stairs you must pay a separate admission of five dollars. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The zero becomes a ten...minus three, equals seven...and the other zero becomes a nine, minus seven...so it’s one dollar and twenty-seven cents!” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I had been given forty dollars in travel money, along with my bus ticket. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Einarsson and Sverrisson pointed out, though, that the apartment was in extremely poor condition and would need repairs amounting to tens of thousands of dollars. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

An equivalent number of American pennies would be enough to make every person on Earth a dollar trillionaire. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then, popping up cunningly out of the blue: How many dollars’ worth of stolen goods have I purchased in the last year? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had them changed into a silver dollar and put it in a velvet-lined jewelry case my mother had. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the neighbors would feed us or a dollar bill would come in the mail from my grandmother. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at his dollar watch; it was seven. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What I do with million dollar? I make you many skirt, that what. You may as well keep money and buy skirt. That save me some time.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Shawn had paid five hundred dollars for him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the wintertime, I always asked my mom for two dollars to drop into his accordion case instead of just one. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Even though they all have strong opinions about “their tax dollars.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the Chamber of Commerce improved its gardens, the merchants each gave five dollars but Dora was asked for and gave a hundred. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She'd notice, for example, that a bookstore in London had an overdue account of seventeen dollars. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Dude didn’t look like he had much, yet he found a dollar he could give me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I wish Sneaky would charge her two dollars! Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Where I came from, fifty thousand dollars was a lot of money. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“So let’s get the money. You can use five dollars, can’t you?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that we no longer belonged to the Company, we somehow had to acquire a thousand dollars worth of property, a faraway figure when you can only save nickels and dimes. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put in ten hours that week, meaning I make up twenty of the dollars I owe him; got one more week to go. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair glittered with millions of dollars’ worth of gems. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Forty dollars,” he says, glancing at the tag. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They paid my mom three dollars a day and bus fare. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Those are dollars, right? Dollars are American money. But every country has their own kind. In Mexico it’s pesos.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He asked me if I had my two dollars. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was not her son, and apart from those eight dollars, I owed her nothing. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You can draw it out of your own wallet. Any man with a wife who’ll pay fifteen dollars for an old preacher’s moth-eaten stovepipe hat has four bucks to spare.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dee thanks me as he hands me ten dollars in change. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

"Look at the menu. Notice how there aren't any prices? I bet a Coke here is a couple of dollars." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The money from today is gonna take me to seventy-four dollars! Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“They don't have to die to collect. They get a thousand dollars each when they're eighteen. It's insurance to get them through college.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the channeling of stimulus dollars to law enforcement may help some police officers keep their jobs at a time when state and local budgets are being slashed, there is a cost. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ll pay you two dollars an hour, and that comes to twenty hours to earn forty dollars. And the work ain’t easy.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it’s a dollar if you’re lucky, and not as big either. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because in his bonus room hangs a framed autographed Michael Jordan jersey—the baby blue one, from when he was in college; very rare, valued at nearly two thousand dollars. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Why not enjoy the next few days and the last few dollars? Next Thursday, your life will return to normal. You areCinderella at the ball. Stop thinking about what happens after midnight?’ Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

And of course, Garrett, who ordered scattered, smothered, and covered waffles with sausage and hash browns, leaves literally a dollar. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Five dollars was the kind of money you could live on for a week back then, but practical considerations were unlikely to occur to a bug boy in such a situation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put her hand against the part of her nightgown that covered her heart and said, “That sounds like one hundred dollars. Over.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy would say, “Okay, ’Saiah, if we get through the whole time with no dogs barking, I’ll give you a dollar.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

First prize was a million dollars and a new Buick, but Curly still couldn’t keep his eyes open. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says: "I won twenty thousand dollars. I'm using it to go to college." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I could definitely hold two leashes. If we got three other dogs at the same rate, then we could each make three times as much. Eighty dollars per week for each of us.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You said we needed a hundred and thirty dollars,” he told her. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later Shawn sent me a check for a few hundred dollars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Millions of state and federal dollars were authorized to create advocacy groups for crime victims in each state. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But she said, “Look at you. Another white lady trying to make a dollar off of colored people.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Later, Jaja said they came to bribe Papa, that he had heard them say that their pickup was full of dollars. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I bought an armful, over three hundred dollars' worth of clothes. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Loaning him ten dollars here and there and hoping he would buy food with it, but knowing he probably wouldn’t. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was dependable and strong, and storekeepers often paid him a few dollars to move boxes or clean up after hours. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go through my pockets and find eighteen dollars. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe nine thousand dollars is quite reasonable for a watch with real diamonds. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He say he give twenty dollars to child under twelve who has best idea. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would they really give you a hundred dollars for turning in a runaway slave? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What were you doing with three thousand dollars hid in the house?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom could buy dinner for us for three days with thirty dollars.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He was also bereft of the millions of dollars he would have received had the two men played. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It must be worth at least five thousand—maybe fifteen thousand dollars. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were too many, and his mother kept accepting their few dollars or few coins. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Some of them make no more than the steelworkers pulled down in the 1970s—in real dollars, not dollars adjusted for inflation. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s a dollar and a quarter for the mend, but I’ll take that book Nate likes so much in trade. If your parents find that fair.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

My Liberty Head silver dollar, fishing lure, and skeleton key. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She passed a while back, but it’s in her honor that I’d like to donate twenty-five thousand dollars to the Hope Springs Downtown Revitalization Fund.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The bill came to seventeen dollars altogether, seventeen dollars and twenty-four cents to be exact. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel worked as a helper in a beauty parlor for eight dollars. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

These women always need their hair done, and sometimes pity darkens their shiny eyes and they tip her a whole dollar. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s one more way we can all help, and that’s to buy Liberty Bonds. Montana’s quota of the Third Liberty Loan is three million dollars.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I order a venti black coffee and leave twenty dollars in the tip jar. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Upon returning to his hotel room, he counted the dollar bills that were stashed away in his old suitcase. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

But, I persisted, cautiously, and in somewhat different terms, this twenty billion dollars, or whatever it is, depends on the total economy of the United States. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“They paid like three hundred dollars to some scalper for counterfeit tickets!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Men tuck dollar bills into their bikini bottoms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

You can play a quarter a day or a dollar, or more; any amount you choose. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when you know that some eggs are not only tastier, but also healthier to eat, then a dollar extra for a dozen seems like a bargain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But over the summer, I had been able to save only a thousand dollars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

By September 1777 he had shipped supplies that would be worth about half a billion dollars today. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know exactly. Around two hundred and fifty dollars, I think.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Joe had decided he would wait till next Saturday because not collecting the dollar and thirty-five cents wasn’t going to strap him. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The total loss to Hazleton ran into the millions of dollars. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t try to put that into dollars per hour,” she warns, seeing my brow furrow as I tackle the not-very-long division. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Silver is not worth much. But I will accept this until you get me dollars. I’ll need you to help with the pirogue,” he said. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I looked again at the dollar amount on the statement. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I cannot explain why, seeing how the storm had affected our family’s finances, I never told anyone that I had almost fifty dollars hidden away. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is nothing wrong with using which to introduce a restrictive relative clause, as in The pair of shoes which cost five thousand dollars was hideous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was a dollar and a half a week from Neeley’s paper route. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It usually only took about an hour, and he always gave me twenty dollars for it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

As for Johnny, they fined him five dollars for violating the Sullivan Law—having a gun without a permit. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every suggestion is a huge project that would require a few million dollars and a team of experts. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just by the weight of the silver and copper I knew we had more than the fifteen dollars I'd counted on us getting. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got a thousand dollars in my pocket, the guy in the rap video was saying. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

But there’s no way I can get fifty dollars by next week. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“I heard they passed the hat and collected a hundred and forty dollars to encourage those policemen to abandon their duties,” Grandma added. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Soon I was emboldened to establish a minimum of five dollars for an appearance,” she recalled. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I don’t think it’s love that makes her feel like a million dollars—but maybe the actual money he gives her for all those wigs and makeup and clothes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I would pay two dollars and a half a week for my room and I would save the balance for my trip to Chicago. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Kasim could make me feel like a million dollars, then I want it to be a million dollars of love and not actually a million dollars. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As Ophie watched in surprise, he handed Penelope two whole dollars. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Go into the tourist industry, give the vuvv a massage, and you made several hundred dollars in an hour. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We both knew it was worth more than a Zimbabwean dollar, especially with inflation, which was escalating daily. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When we finished our pizza, Cade asked me, “How much is five euros in dollars?” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Which costs fifty-five dollars not including tax, these days. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Five dollars gets you twenty quarters, which is a ton to put into swimsuit trunk pockets. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Why, hell, when the railroad puts a branch out here, I could lay it down neat, broke up and seasoned, right beside the track, for a dollar and a half a cord. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why should 1 get killed so he can make another fifty million dollars?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave the woman two dollars and fifty cents. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

That first apartment was three rooms, for a hundred dollars a month, I think, in the front basement of a house on 147th Street between Convent and St. Nicholas Avenues. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen one online for over four hundred dollars. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

At the time of the divorce the Blooms had been eighty-three thousand dollars in the hole; there followed bankruptcy declarations and a substantial loss of valuable suburban property. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seller’s face came alive at the sight of one of the American dollars, and as Jiichan bargained, Hanako and Akira eagerly picked out five cakes apiece, just as they had in the train station. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I would either win a million dollars, or I’d get nothing. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He sold me the hat for three dollars. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Nine dollars and twenty cents,” said the girl behind the counter. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But not here, where for five dollars you can get a slice, a pair of Keds, and a new ball cap or something. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Full fare one way costs one dollar and sixty cents. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time I prayed for a million dollars, to test Him, and didn’t get one dime.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The man says yes, but he wants a hundred dollars. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I charged a dollar per assignment and guaranteed at least an A- or the customer was entitled to a full refund. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, you could help me out if you moved in with me. I mean, that way I could use the five hundred dollars’ rent you paid to me . The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The price of dogs had dropped five dollars. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I move,” said Frank, "that not more than ninety-five dollars be spent.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie often wished she had saved her dollars and walked—rain or no rain. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I pay for all our tickets, donating an extra couple hundred dollars in the hope that the arena remains open for many, many years. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If I missed the shot on purpose, I wouldn’t have a million dollars, but my mom would get her job back and we’d be back to normal. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

So when Mr. Abbas asked about the prices, she said, “Ten dollars each.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In order that Tucker could keep at least one of each kind of coin, Harry Cat figured out that they should bring over one half dollar, four quarters, one dime, five nickels, and fifteen cents. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty dollars a month in Belgian francs might not sound like much, but in Kilanga it had made us richer than anybody. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He changed into the warmer clothes and carried the rice in his backpack to a Gilju merchant, who bought it for six thousand won, about six dollars. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The next morning, we picked up my dad, who had bought another hundred dollars’ worth of Twinkies. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“If you’ve got all that, why did you want to sleep on the two dollar bills in the cricket cage?” asked Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom White died in January 2011, but not before realizing his ambition to give away virtually every last dollar to philanthropy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Besides,” she went on, her eyes twinkling, “some incredible things have been happening in the real estate market since the sixties. I just sold Garland for seventeen million dollars.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Ten dollars says you can’t eat that donut without moaning,” Oscar says. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Three to five dollars must seem like peanuts to the jewelry guy. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad walked around while people bargained with him and said how about two dollars instead of three. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the money from him and quickly smoothed out the dollar bills. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I open the backpack, wondering if there's any chance Max has forgotten some old granola bar or a few dollar bills. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“How cool is it gonna look when you step up to the line for your million dollar shot and you chuck a brick?” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Then pay me the dollar you owe for them weenies.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only after he had unpinned and handed over the five dollars, and after he had eaten two pieces of pie, that Jody started for home again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he bought a bag of chips for a dollar and nineteen cents, then used part of the change to buy another paper. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

In this way Duke was able to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for his continuing work in the field of white supremacy. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The primary therapist had been hired by Nicole’s mother and paid for by Nicole’s father at nine hundred dollars an hour, which is what it costs to have a psychiatrist make house calls. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Ten years ago, they stole jus’ ’bout four thousand dollars from Mr. Tanner. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

With eighty dollars a week, I might have enough for lessons and a keyboard by the time I start seventh grade this September. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I clutched my five dollars in my fist and walked home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I counted my money and found I had two hundred and thirty dollars left. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a few dollars left, and I could—” “This is just for our terrorist database, kid,” he says, tipping his head in the direction of an elevator bank. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Just before sunset an agent bought her for two hundred and twenty-six dollars. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s five thousand one hundred thirty-two dollars,” she said. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

"Oh, everywhere. He just brought me here now. Offered me ten thousand dollars to go to Biarritz with him. How much is that in pounds?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“You promised me fifty thousand dollars for the little one. I’ll throw the others in for nothing.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You got a thousand dollars extra for it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The midwife had gone after saying, “That will be five dollars and your husband knows where I live.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, fifty thousand dollars isn’t rich” I said. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The total for the three of us came to fourteen dollars, and was packed up and ready to go in four minutes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The question was what good was ten thousand dollars. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She had ten dollars in her pocket and twelve hundred in the bank. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Are you ready for a chance to win ten thousand dollars?” the announcer asked. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would certainly have known if he had two dollars to leave anybody. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, there goes the first thousand dollars’ bounty; probably skipped all the way to the Antarctic Circle. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And then those two extra dollar signs left over. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He ran his hand into his pocket and pulled out a dollar bill. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed only forty more dollars to pay for my family’s passage, minus what Mr. Stieglitz had just given me, but even that felt impossible. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A capable mechanic, he earned sixty dollars a week. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made fourteen dollars each week in my part-time job and planned accordingly. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Twenty dollars poorer, we headed back to the theater, Connor’s and Zion’s arms stuffed full of treats. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Remember that she had spent her last seven dollars on formula. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We’re magic people. We always have been. Remember that ten dollars you found in a book—remember when your cousin sent you five dollars? Nothing can happen to us.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, here’s some lunch money,” he said and handed me a dollar. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because of this, the businessmen and ad men liked to sit in her section, and they usually left an extra dollar—or sometimes a five—on the table. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ten dollars a week is what it takes to start, ten dollars for the right of knowing a someone in the city for you who are yet nobody. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carter sentenced King to pay five hundred dollars and serve one year of hard labor in prison. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“It will take millions of dollars to repair this church, Lord! I have no idea how to raise that kind of money!” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’d offhandedly give them each a couple of dollars to just stick in their pockets, to have something to spend. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s still five dollars a cord, and there’s three thousand cords in that little grove alone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After legal fees and taxes, Stanley and Zero each received less than a million dollars. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

How many Spalding balls could I buy, really, with eight thousand dollars? Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

He held out a dollar, but it dropped out of his hand before Armpit could take it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“She worth plenty money. Two hundred dollars. Who bid two hundred dollars?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Had my parents’ fight centered on Royal Rampling, the man who was suing my mother for fifty million dollars? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Haggling over a twenty cent hame string to save fifteen cents, so they can give it to a bunch of Yankees that come in and pay maybe ten dollars for the privilege. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It cost five dollars from the Talking Machine Department at Sears, Roebuck and Co., and he’d ordered a dozen “best and loudest music records” to play on it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t believe that somehow he would not be working on those cottages earning three dollars an hour. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred twenty-three dollars in legal tender was promptly reduced to ash and smoke. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to imagine a life where every dollar wasn’t set aside for groceries or rent or emergencies. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A hundred dollars says the cook gets the runt!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t stop her from making two hundred dollars a picture. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“No. I want to be a broker and make lots of money like my bosses. I’ll get on to the stock market and make a million dollars some day.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We do this once a month, take in about five hundred dollars on a good weekend. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I gave her forty dollars inside a card. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Scared the hell out of him so that when he was up again he joined the church and bought himself a Chinese missionary, five thousand dollars a year. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the housing office at MIT and found a furnished apartment a few blocks away, with a double bed and a private kitchen and bath, for forty dollars a week. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Used to get twenty-five bucks a day from the government to dive lookin’ for liquor on the bottom and he got three dollars a case from Louie for not findin’ it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel paused, then yelled, “Sold to this gentleman for six hundred dollars.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“You can’t use food stamps for bullets. You need money. Real dollars.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when it became clear that there was no risk of a HeLa shortage, they began sending the cells to any scientist interested in buying them, for ten dollars plus Air Express fees. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I want Skittles,” she says loudly, putting a dollar on the table. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Mom took us thrift-store shopping for weeks before that Christmas, giving us each a dollar to spend on presents. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to! You take four hundred dollars to Ebgard and pay off the claim. It’s yours, right and proper. Then you come back and I forgive the loan.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The fines and damages that Garrett had to pay took every dollar of his property. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hers is big and glittery with pictures of the things she wants in her life, like dreamy movie stars for boyfriends, or dollar signs, or colleges she’s trying to get into. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He took the rest of his money—seventeen dollars in bills—folded them, and zipped up the cash in his book bag. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Considering that I have exactly thirteen dollars to my name right now, I’m at the most dire point I’ve ever been. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then at one point halfway through the month, she herself suggested upping the amount of the penalty she would give us for being late from one dollar to five dollars. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The next part of the will would read: "Whichsoever pair made the most money with the ten thousand dollars inherits the whole estate." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our ggeh, if you give a few dollars you can expect to receive a few hundred. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You take that eight hundred dollars and commute your claim. No more fences. No more backbreaking work.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They had met in a bar, and the next morning she had paid him the equivalent of seven dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pay a dollar or two when you enter and what you say is smarter, funnier, than it would be in your own kitchen. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rode the ten-dollar bills back to where he’d found them, counted a dollar from his own wallet to pay for the sandwiches, dropped it in the delicatessen till, and added a quarter tip. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same dollar could only buy 250 calories of carrots and other whole vegetables. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I have some valuable cargo in my office that needs to go to Miami. My client is anxious. I don’t want to disappoint him. Which is where you come in. I’ll pay you five dollars.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m so excited to find one of her books for only six dollars. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The wad was fairly large and came to nearly three hundred dollars. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He’d given me a couple of lessons last summer, but he wanted two dollars for the full course. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Five thousand dollars is what I estimate the redecorating and the newspaper ads will cost." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I won the contest! I get to shoot the million dollar shot!” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It only takes a dime and you can win a dollar. Then you can buy Pearl Ann a bag of popcorn and a lemonade with change to spare.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

If a cabdriver charged her four dollars, she'd wrangle him down to three. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Though the horse was dollar sound at this stage of his career, reporters given to hyperbole began regularly referring to him as a “cripple.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these people must have a million dollars at least, and yet, they keep doing these movies. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Like a dollar for the first minute, and fifty cents every minute after. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Twenty dollars is a bit much for a couple of burgers, don’t you think?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When he was seventeen years old they had sent him north with eighty dollars hidden in his shoe. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grasso worked at construction sites, where he probably earned no more than thirty dollars a week. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Six hundred and ninety dollars down the toilet. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

My dad wasn’t working, and my mom made three dollars a day. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Mom,” I asked, “how much is a million dollars?” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he turned, there was his father, grim-faced, holding two dollars in his outstretched hand. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Bagging and weighing, pound after pound, dollar after dollar, for what Genie considered to be the nastiest food On the planet. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I think of Grandpa and Dad, who always asked us if we were having a silver dollar day or a wooden nickel one. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

If I give you a dollar will you kiss me? The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

How far could I get with only thirteen dollars? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I thought the receptionist might recognize the box number, so I said, "I better pay now," and peeled five dollar notes off the roll in my pocketbook. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“You remember when you sent me a telegram for a hundred dollars?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They finally found a dingy room in a building downtown, rented it for eighteen dollars a week, and immediately went out looking for work. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Through trial and error, a few strategies that I learned along the way, and some helpful hints from Mr. Terupt, I broke the record for most dollar words. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

So, my sister spent the first hour of the party opening up all the gifts, and her smile grew with each check, sweater, or fifty dollar bill. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

One, to the March of Caring, was for a thousand dollars! Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Pyce wants my father to allow something he disagrees with. If Pyce controls me, my father has to acquiesce. Pyce stands to make billions, and not in dollars. Chinese red cash. Billions.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A good-size hide was worth from four to ten dollars, depending on the grade and quality. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, I cleared at least fifty or sixty dollars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fourteen dollars for a child’s dress!” she said as we left the store. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

That left her with three dollars and fifty-nine cents. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could have written it myself, or recited it to her from memory, adding ten dollars just to be safe. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a sudden flourish, he produced the poisoned pin Powers had removed from the silver dollar. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He tole that little snippity nurse of his’n to give me ten dollars and make me sign a ‘paid in full’ receipt. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under protest, he agreed to accept just eighteen dollars, the price he had paid for the boat. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It broke on the edge of a little town called Jistann, the needle trembling at H. Milkman sold it to the tow- truck man for twenty dollars and caught the first bus out. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So if you had the money, would you pay fifty-five dollars for a ticket?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Daddy had given her twelve dollars to buy me a new dress, and the lime green one was eleven. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Four hundred and ten dollars was a serious chunk out of his paycheck, but keeping his record spotless was worth every penny. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At two dollars a minute, twenty-five minutes would pay for a subscription to The Wall Street Journal. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Record companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on promotion, trying to get their videos on MTV, and if they can get them broadcast one hundred or two hundred times, they consider themselves very lucky. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The arrangements were soon settled: in exchange for three hundred dollars a month, Mia would vacuum, dust, and tidy the Richardson house three times a week and prepare dinner nightly. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dad always tells them to volunteer because they give away hundreds of dollars in travel vouchers, which is always worth the inconvenience. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“And you’d better thank your stars it’s ten dollars,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, well, you take care of yourself,” she said, the way you might say it to a schizophrenic homeless person to whom you've just given a dollar. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

"There's more than a hundred dollars here. You give your son that kind of allowance?" How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Dad told me that one company had been so alarmed by the success of Mother’s oils, they had offered to buy her out for an astonishing three million dollars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But I wouldn’t have a clue where to go, and I only had about thirteen dollars in my pocket. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“When I finish my work on the survey,” Nat said, “I’ll have a hundred and thirty-five dollars. Could I invest that much in a venture, and have room for it?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dug a wad of dollars out of my pocket and threw the money on the table. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He felt in his vest pocket; there was a ten- dollar bill there. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had given a quick glance up and down the street and then had slipped inside and bought the book for two dollars fifty. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

"Well," I tell him, "I can't sell you cigarettes, but I can pay you a dollar to deliver some for me." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I bet my bottom dollar that when they hear the word pageant, they don’t quite picture a girl who looks like me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

So there I was cranking out words, trying to find the first dollar word of the year, when what do I hear? Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The first day I made a dollar and a half in tips. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That happened a few times that day: You could either take the bags back to where you first started carrying them, or take the dollar. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Now Mom got paid about seven hundred dollars a month, and the first time I saw her gray-green pay check, with its detachable stub and automated signatures, I thought our troubles were over. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve sold one of them, the one with the car. Four hundred dollars. Not a lot, but a start.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If he’d been a cartoon, dollar signs would have danced in his pupils. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Which is how long it took Mom to guess six categories and win ten thousand dollars. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

There’s a toll to pay, so Velia put the three dollars in the dead man’s right hand and rested it on the right shoulder pad of the driver’s seat. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

If they built one, maybe we could chip in a few dollars and they would let us stay there. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It varies depending on a homeowner’s needs, but the base price for this model is about sixty-five thousand dollars.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Wealthy on paper, huh. Yeah, back in those days, when you could get them, I would always take a silver dollar over a paper dollar even though they was heavier to carry.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius had bought a large, elegant, limited edition of the English translation, and all fifteen dollars of its price hit Patrolman Mancuso in the head with the force of a dictionary. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, remember we started out with a forty-dollar investment? And that morphed into eight thousand dollars?” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

To find employers who will put up with the prickliness of newcomers from the North, the Ministry of Unification pays companies up to eighteen hundred dollars a year if they risk hiring a defector. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We worked it for a week and after the money was split four ways, I had fifty dollars. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course we did. And now she’s doing the same. It’s just that she can afford to do more. Ten thousand dollars! I can’t believe it.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Saved a dollar every week for a lotto ticket, but we never won more than twenty. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He opened it, then took out two hundred and seventy dollars, which he gave to X-Ray, along with his sandwich. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I bought a souvenir booklet that cost ten dollars, and I had looked at it so often that I was wearing the gloss off its pages. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

For just a few dollars each day, parents could buy off their guilt. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

At one of my early services at Temple Seven, an old scavenger hustler, to whom I gave a few dollars, came up when services were dismissed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leon needed at least twenty thousand dollars to draw even with the school. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know how I’m making five dollars plus tips every Saturday? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He said, “Well, we’ve heard so much about them hounds of his, we just think it’s a lot of talk and lies. We’d like to make a little bet; say about two dollars.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The debt rose from one hundred eighty dollars to eight hundred under him. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I gave her an American dollar and she looked at it and said, “Syaujye”—Miss—“we are in America now. Even a beggar can starve on this dollar.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was two days later that they discovered the combined accounts were worth more than forty-eight million dollars. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A poor bicycle repairman just a few years before, Howard soon had hundreds of thousands of dollars for every penny he had brought to California. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she could spend just fifty cents for lunch, they’d have a dollar fifty for dinner. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you think you can spare a few dollars?” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It suggested that one billion dollars' worth of the South’s property was insecure. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had borrowed several thousand dollars from Eric and had the cash in my purse. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’ll have to split the profits with X-Ray. When we sell all the tickets I’ll make a profit of four hundred and thirty-five dollars.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They wandered around the market for a few minutes searching for anything else interesting to eat—they’d brought two American dollars—but they didn’t find anything Jiichan wanted. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

This is a hard way to make a hundred dollars, Colin thought. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“A million dollars,” he answered, knowing it was really wishful thinking. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I try not to think about how the water costs four dollars here. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

And if she wins a third time, she’ll go for twenty thousand dollars. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Mama, could I have sixty-five dollars of the money you’ve been saving for me towards college?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I just gave you a million dollars, you wouldn’t appreciate it when you actually earned your first million. I’m doing you a favor.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The damage we’d do would cost even more than the two dollars.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I had a few dollars for a cup of hot chocolate, but I barely have enough to get back on the bus. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Can you believe it? A hundred and fifty dollars for a permit! I’m so mad at myself.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He played cards for thirty-six hours straight before he left New York, winning a couple hundred dollars. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m letting them go for a dollar apiece. I was selling them yesterday for a pound.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I went to work for a man in the suburbs today. He paid me a hundred dollars.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And Don Parsons, a top-notch explosives expert, determined the cache of explosives and equipment would have caused millions of dollars of destruction to America's war industry. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He couldn't bring himself to give the picture to her personally, so he wrapped it up, insured it for one hundred dollars, and sent it through the mail. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was obviously glad of the few dollars that it would bring him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“You know what a good guard dog goes for these days? I’ll tell you. There’s a German shepherd on the internet on sale for fifty-five thousand dollars. For one dog! Fifty-five K!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Math was my specialty—you spend enough time at the cash register and you learn to love numbers, because each and every one means dollars and cents, and enough of those mean business is booming. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

First of all, he had inherited two thousand dollars from a man whose life he’d saved during World War II. So while he wasn’t rich, he was better off than most of us. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

That way if a caller ever did come, I could raise the bet up and make me two dollars. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Mother already secretly offered him her wedding ring plus a thousand dollars, which supposedly we’d dig up after we got back to Georgia without Father or any visible means of self-support. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give you five dollars if you can tell me the name of the dorm you lived in.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She took a few dollars from her purse. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand dollars, they had offered, to carry a healthy baby for them. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t even have a dollar to my name,” Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a land deed from the small chunk of Clover property Deborah bought with two thousand dollars from her father’s asbestos settlement. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I have three dollars saved and I take two of Nen- ny’s. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The collector, a clever criminal himself, would pay Glitts sixty million dollars for her, but wanted a guarantee that the police would never trace the theft. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

In one city, a famous gangster robbed a bank of five thousand dollars and spent the whole lot on candy bars that same afternoon. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I did not tell her about the five hundred dollars or my secret plan for that money. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Powers thought of the silver dollar in his pocket, and it suddenly occurred to him that if he were captured, "it was one of the first things they would take." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said her father, “he’s a runt. Tell your Uncle Homer you’ve got a pig you’ll sell for six dollars, and see what he says.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Before my uncle died, he gave my mom a hundred dollars, which was a great deal of money at the time. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And then it hit me: Why am I wasting my time and two good dollars straightening my hair so I can look more white? Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

With my dollars bills in hand and Madrina’s skirt still around my waist, I race up the stairs, past my apartment, and quietly slip up to the roof. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He started to draw three rows of dollar signs. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Miss Pat took seven dollars from the money she had and put it down in front of Big Time. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turtle returned to her calculations, multiplying numbers of shares times price, adding a broker's commission, trying to total the sums to the ten thousand dollars they had to spend. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There just isn’t five dollars in the house for a midwife.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give you two dollars to sew them up before Mom gets home,” he said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

In Harlem hundreds of poor people invested their pennies, nickels, and sometimes dollars in the hope that they would hit it big. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to pay him fifty dollars a month. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Chester passed the first dollar bill up to Harry Cat, who took it over to the cage and pushed it through the gate. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chances were twenty-five cents apiece or five for a dollar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It had split and then resplit—you had twelve thousand shares at four dollars a share. I must point out that this kind of growth is unprecedented.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

And on that day, Bobby Fischer became the first-ever champion to willingly relinquish the title and along with it the chance to compete for the winner’s share of a $5 million purse...five million dollars! Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And let’s say I keep doubling your allowance every day. How long do you think it will take until you have a million dollars?” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The not-so-subtle message to working-class whites was that their tax dollars were going to support special programs for blacks who most certainly did not deserve them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“In Philadelphia, tickets went for seven hundred and fifty dollars,” she said, trying to show that she knew a thing or two. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

That meant selling every stock mentioned in their clues and buying more shares of Westing Paper Products—at a loss of some thousands of dollars. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a one- dollar bill—not even a one-dollar bill and a fifty-cent piece—two dollars you had to eat! And from the Bellinis too—people who hardly make two dollars in two days.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

By one in the morning, the game was over, and Casey won the hundred dollars in the bank. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The newspapers said Ernie’s diploma cost taxpayers half a million dollars. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours, nine to five-thirty, half an hour for lunch, salary, seven dollars a week to start. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That lipstick cost me twenty dollars. It’s designer stuff. I want my money,” Char says. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t have been more than twenty dollars. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ten dollars wouldn’t get her very far, but there might be more where these came from. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: Would you jump out of that plane with an umbrella for a hundred million dollars? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not to mention the fact that Simon spent hundreds of dollars on application fees alone, even though he’s dead set on NYU. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe a dollar if it looks like new and you’re lucky. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Here’s two dollars for your sophomore dues,” she said, putting the money down on the table. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He handed Armpit a hundred dollars but wasn’t finished yet. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You’re still at a healthy two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, love. You should feel proud of that. You barely fetched me ten thousand the first time around.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I have a sure-fire plan for cheating the federal government out of six thousand dollars. We can make three thousand dollars apiece without any risk to either of us. Are you interested?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They searched through the dresser and found a dollar or two and sent for a doctor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything got very quiet. There was two hundred dollars in it, and all of Bunny’s ID. The policeman who’d found it said, ‘I think we’d better contact this boy’s family.’ The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I already made friends with the 7-Eleven guy. He’s open all night. I wanted a Twinkie cake, but all I had was a hundred dollar bill, and he didn’t have that much change.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“But, Dad,” said Fadi, “you don’t understand. I wasted fifty dollars and didn’t win the tickets to India.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes! And we have millions of dollars at our disposal. How do we get revenge?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rings were pawned for a hundred and fifty dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You still need two more dollars and eighty cents.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She knew that her son didn't have fifty dollars to give her. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

By signing the treaty, Germany had accepted the blame for starting World War I and agreed to pay billions of dollars in reparations to other countries. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

As the jeep hurtles along, I tuck hundred-taka notes, worth about three dollars each, into folds of paper. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day, the contratista checked his notebook and handed my father eighteen dollars. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like he’d have paid seven hundred dollars for one stiff drink, just to take the edge off. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even when I had hundreds of dollars in my pocket, when she came to Harlem I would take everything she had short of her train fare back to Boston. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were fined a mere one hundred dollars each and sentenced to 180 days in jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After some consideration, he added in several silver dollars. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I threw the two dollar admission at the ticket window and we raced for the field. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Then falling forward, my head against his damp shoulder, I whispered, "I'll make it five dollars more." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immie’s bank and investment accounts had a total of eight million dollars in them. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They reported “serious confusion,” “misguided research,” and millions of wasted dollars. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“And I still have a little bit left from my tips from the week but even then it all only adds up to one hundred and sixty-seven dollars.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sneaky says, making a motion like he’s counting dollars. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Cade silently mouthed five dollars to me and pointed at the pizza. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He went back to the office, where the secretary gave him four quarters for the dollar, then went to the pay phone and called X-Ray. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

A bird on one side, a man's profile on the other, united states of America, in god we trust, quarter dollar embossed on one side, and liberty and 1990 on the other. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Handing over three of her precious dollars to the driver, she settled herself in the corner of the carriage. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But assumption was symptomatic of malevolent tendencies that transcended mere dollars and cents. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Handing me the box, he said, “Here you are, son. There’s over three hundred dollars in this box. It’s all yours.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She placed her note on top of a stack of bills—nine hundred dollars of her saved-up wages. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing tiny black shorts and a gray tank top with a silver dollar sign on it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was a few dollars short of flat broke and only marginally employed at the depths of the Depression. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five million dollars would set me up for life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“But Mr. Greenbaum is going to pay us five thousand dollars for a week at the Regal.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

A diamond no bigger than a pebble would be worth thousands of dollars. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“That’s what my mom calls the hairpieces we use. Princess hair. They cost a lot, about five or six hundred dollars.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

At ladies’, I relate the news to Melissa, adding that the hotel workers already earn over a dollar an hour more than we do and that that hasn’t stopped them from striking for more. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was in my room designing the logo on the computer, Stan completely chatted up my dad, convincing him to get Kalbro to donate two hundred dollars to the cause. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Dicey gave him the money she had left, nine dollars. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I chose a dark blue to write, I have also sent a dollar bill. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

By the cash register, there are baskets with items for a dollar and up. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We both bent over it, to get a better look: It was bigger than our Zimbabwean dollar, though I rarely saw those either. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"You each have ten thousand dollars more than you started with and an apartment building to boot. The man is dead, so why not think the best?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

To entice him to stay, G.F.’s father offered him twenty-five dollars to set up his own business right there on Cape Cod, a challenge and an opportunity that G.F. agreed to take on. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“That 1933 Walking Liberty half dollar. How much for that one?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

From the bag he’d brought back from the hospital, he saves his father’s wallet, containing forty dollars, three credit cards, a wad of receipts, photographs of Gogol and Sonia when they were babies. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d bet a million dollars that this is Jan’s smart idea.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But before he left, he held out to me the six or seven dollars he had collected that day in nickel and dime tips. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother luckily secured a job in a white doctor’s office at the unheard-of-wages of five dollars per week and at once she announced that her “sons were going to school again.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two months ago, she was glad to earn five dollars a week. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a typical supermarket, one dollar could buy 1,200 calories of potato chips and cookies. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I’m sure he would. But, child, where are you going to get five hundred dollars?” Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I’d say we could fix you up for less than eight hundred dollars. How soon did you want delivery? We would have to make it up for you; there’s not that much call for—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Outside Seoul, I talked to a North Korean defector who had paid twelve thousand dollars to a broker to smuggle out her eleven-year-old son in 2002. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Our church has a food pantry, emergency dollars for winter heating. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Delta Airlines told me a one-way ticket to Idlewild Airport would cost seventy-three dollars. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Fifty dollars for a steak was a steal. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The dollar coin was fake and hollowed out. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then Nora draws a piggy bank with dollar signs around it. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

PIH had spent several million dollars of the philanthropist’s fortune to buy the drugs for Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

What is it that Marv intends to do with forty thousand dollars? I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He went to a drug store and bought one for a dollar. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was eight dollars and twenty cents in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he got the post, he offered to arrange the surrender of West Point to the British for £20,000, a sum equal to well over one million dollars today. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I won thirty dollars in the football pool. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their houses had been torn down to make room for high-priced hotels and the A-frame cottages that now rented in season for a thousand dollars a week. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I locked Charley in Rocinante’s house after giving the attendant a tour of the premises, a drink of whisky, and a dollar. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Your phone isn’t one hundred dollars. Hello?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We bought ten fortune cookies for a dollar. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At two o'clock Westing Paper Products sold at fifty-two dollars a share, its highest price in fifteen years. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave a contact point for later in the evening and urged any Negro man who wanted to earn five dollars for himself to find him a date within this price category. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before we could shell out the four hundred dollars for classes at A.C.T. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was rewarded with a handful of coins and two dollar bills. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Bit passed them down so that each of the Low Cuts had one, then handed the ice-cream man the nine dollars. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

With some trepidation, Bloom told him the number: “A thousand dollars a week.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“One hundred dollars and you can have him.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, here’s the rub. I’ll agree to give each of you a dollar every time I’m late to a rehearsal if you agree to give me a dollar every time you’re late for a rehearsal.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Shadow drove west, then south, with five hundred and fifty dollars in his pocket, keeping off the interstate. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And certain sounds returned—a silver dollar rolling across a floor, boot steps on hardwood stairs, and the sounds of breathing, the gasps, the hysterical inhalations of a man with a severed windpipe. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

So eventually Fred took his last three dollars and twenty-five cents and bought a bus ticket north for a new life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I honestly don’t care if they give a million dollars to equal rights causes so the world can be better in the future. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Ice gave the guys who had given the man CPR twenty dollars each. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about handing over his sixty-two dollars and eleven cents to Jessie and how she'd smile and laugh and tell. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Fifty dollars,” whispered Angel, not daring to look at her mother. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tosses the packet onto the coffee table, where it falls next to a few playing cards, a rolled dollar bill, and one jagged slab of a broken mirror. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just exercise. Four rounds for five dollars. You scared?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The busboy and the Mexican who intervened were paid several thousand dollars and the owners promised to promote a current Mexican employee to waiter within a month. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had a few dollars in his pocket from the last job and he had an uncle in San Francisco or one of the other California Sans. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I was in fifth grade, walking to school. This guy asked for a dollar, and when I pulled out my five singles for lunch money, he punched me in the face and took it all.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It must have cost Aunt Consuelo at least twenty dollars, far too much. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Then she borrowed five hundred dollars from Felix so she wouldn’t go bankrupt. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

So Artemis put out a call on the Web: Irish businessman will pay large amount of U.S. dollars to meet a fairy, sprite, leprechaun, pixie. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Two to four weeks—if we’ve got it, we’ll send it over,” she’d promised, and Mrs. Richardson filled out her own address, attached a check for eighteen dollars, and dropped the envelope into the mail. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That will be a dollar for you, sir, and fifty cents for each of the children.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything is fifty cents or a dollar, but you can’t bring food or drinks in the gym.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to ruin your road trip—but for five hundred American dollars a week, I will.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Private industries throughout the country made millions of dollars with free convict labor, while thousands of African Americans died in horrific work conditions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were certain the bill overcharged them by twenty-two dollars. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She socked away a dollar, sometimes two, from each week’s grocery money. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Use less than for quantities of time and money, too: He built the bookcase in less than two weeks and for less than thirty dollars. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the cabin I gave Jeremiah forty dollars. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ted and I met in a politics of ecology class when he leaned over and offered to pay me two dollars for the last week’s notes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give you a dollar, and he looks in his pocket for wrinkled money. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

If all those cells were in fact HeLa, it would mean that millions of dollars had been wasted, and researchers who’d found that various cells behaved differently in culture could have some explaining to do. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Arthur had traded in his Ford Model A plus five hundred dollars cash for it in 1939 at a lot in Bellingham. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Frank got five dollars with the promise of another five when he brought back the package. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I put a few dollars on the counter and slide them over to him. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you like me the way I am? I’m not a genius! I can’t play the piano. And even if I could, I wouldn’t go on TV if you paid me a million dollars!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You never wanted to visit lonely people before, or is it that you only like lonely people who have ten dollars?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The extra dollar Mr. Malloy gives me, telling me how hardworking I am. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

George opened his wallet and gave Ignatius eight dollars. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost five dollars for the coffee, which was my lunch allowance for the week. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

What if stopping to give a dollar to that violinist started a chain of events that causes me to miss her? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty dollars seems like a huge amount of money to me, but Sophia is a fancy sort of woman. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After taxes and social security, I’d be taking home over eighty dollars a week. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the restaurants is this fish place, where the cheapest dish is, like, thirty dollars, and that’s just for a salad. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Father said that was because it was two cents on the dollar, but they don’t even have regular dollars here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty dollars should be safe through at least Harrisburg, and once there, I’ll take my mom’s ATM card out and get some more cash. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Thirty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents for paperwork. After I’ve already paid twenty-two dollars to open the claim!” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The inmate? Or the taxpayers who put out a hundred thousand dollars for each of these cells?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My daily draw back at the agency gave me money enough to buy my own lunches—and pay my landlady a few dollars—but I still looked forward to seeing him, talking to him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I won sixty dollars, and Shorty and I had a ball with it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

French fries—ten dollars’ worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t give five dollars for the best horse in this country.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Climbing back up to the door, I slowly pull the dollar bill off the alarm switch, pocketing it as I fly back down to the third floor of the hospital. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I’m down to single dollars at this point, and I apologize and shuffle back to the line. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Between us, we contributed a dollar in change. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Compared to the one hundred dollars he needed to win the war, five dollars was nothing. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Four dollars would buy us a gallon of John Eye’s finest. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He said it was to save a few dollars but I knew better. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

A dollar watch was not good enough for a job like this; he would buy a gold one. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had his pay, and almost five hundred dollars that he had made on his venture in shoes. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you two go to bed and get some sleep. But, por favor, give me another dollar to buy some rice for tonight. I want my sister’s children to stay and have supper with us.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In the winter when there were no crops and no pay, fifty cents for a possum and two dollars for a coonhide bought flour and overall jackets with blanket linings. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the CIA, the bombing campaign was costing the United States nine dollars and sixty cents for every one dollar of damage inflicted on North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Lupita sent her mother twenty dollars the day after Christmas, writing that half came from herself, half from Salvador. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Estimates vary according to the anticipated price for each freed slave, which ranges between one hundred and two hundred dollars. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I remember one small one that brought us a thousand dollars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would bet a million dollars that she was thinking that she wished every day could be Halloween. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in over an hour, Dolores’s thoughts drifted to the ancient toe bone, worth millions of dollars, that she’d left sitting on the armrest of her car. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He receives a Hallmark card signed by both of his parents, a check for one hundred dollars, a navy blue cotton sweater from Filene’s. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was shocked and said, ‘Then I don’t want to sell my land to that white man who offered seventy-five thousand dollars for it.’ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fifty-five dollars for just one ticket? I don’t think so.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Legally barred from employment, housing, and welfare benefits—and saddled with thousands of dollars of debt—these people were shamed and condemned for failing to hold together their families. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I considered myself lucky if, after subtracting lapses from new business, there remained fifteen dollars that I could call my own. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people even rented out their papers, for a dollar a day; one copy sold for an astounding forty dollars. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There weren’t that many in the real, blood Kelly family—but they ate there and slept there at five dollars a head and you might as well count them on in. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A nonrestrictive relative clause is set offby commas, dashes, or parentheses, and expresses a comment from the peanut gallery, as in The pair of shoes, which cost five thousand dollars, was hideous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And somewhere over the three days, he needed to make two extra bucks in order to earn fifty-three dollars by Sunday evening. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

She figured up the tuition; a little over sixty dollars with laboratory fees. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘That is not wholly true. Mr. Singer contributed a check for twelve dollars to be used for coal. And I have invited him to be present today.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And just like I say. I wouldn’t have her know it for a thousand dollars.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, in 1975 I was crowned Little Miss Central Florida Tire and received a check for one thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, all ninety-nine dollars of it,” I reply. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Malvonne didn’t have a dollar to spare for Lila Spencer's entrance fee, but she did worry that if the girl did not get to be a lawyer she would end up with an apron job. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bought a strip of twenty tickets for a dollar and they started to dance. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thirty dollars is a lot of money for pieces like these. Besides, I never paid for it in my life.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I’d had fantasies of her winning a hundred dollars in a spitting contest and the two of us going to a nice motel in Atlanta and ordering room service with the prize money. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filled out the entry form, put Annie’s poem in the envelope, and rubbed my lucky Susan B. Anthony dollar against it. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Deposits were normally a few hundred dollars, and who knew how much medication would cost. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“I have it, Mr. Pignati,” John insisted, giving a dollar bill to the man in the ticket booth. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

People can pay ten dollars to have someone arrested for reasons like eating their boogers and having bad breath. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Winston immediately paid over the four dollars and slid the coveted thing into his pocket. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He leads me to the photo booth, puts in five dollars, and takes a seat. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“So, your favorite big brother had a silver dollar day today!” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give thee twenty dollars for the calf,” he said quickly. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll bring you a bucket of hot water. Winter rate’s two dollars.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s thirty million dollars, Anatole told me recently, that the U.S. has now spent trying to bring down Angola’s sovereignty. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both knew I didn’t have two dollars. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had five other optometrists working for him in the shopping plaza location, and netted over sixty thousand dollars a year. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They owed around two hundred dollars that had to be paid right away. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

That way if anyone ever come to call on us, we could say, “Bet you a dollar you can’t guess what this here stone done.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I took off the contraption and explained to Dad that, because my front teeth stuck out so badly, I needed braces, but they cost twelve hundred dollars, so I had made my own. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She held an envelope containing five dollars—her first week’s pay. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So you got nothing? Not one dollar? Not a quarter? Not a penny? Even bums got pennies!" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I would have to clean floors for a thousand hours to earn a thousand dollars, I thought. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

A delighted Cope sent Lakes a hundred dollars for his trouble and asked him not to tell anyone of his discovery, especially Marsh. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t I just write you ten letters? Then you can make a thousand dollars!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Holmesy, this is, this is—is this one hundred thousand dollars?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“This coupon is for two dollars off! Double, that means four dollars in savings!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

In front of him a dollar bill dangles on a fishhook. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

While most of the children in the store, both black and white, scraped for pennies in their pockets, Paulette pulled out two crisp dollar bills and bought three large bags of candy. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In a matter of a few months, half a dozen other students were working under him, and he’d put seven thousand dollars into his bank account. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the dealers offered her fifteen dollars for it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The diamond was insured for eighteen hundred dollars. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eva was fearless and smart, and she sorted everything out so that a few dollars could trickle in. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Let it wash a man’s crop out of the ground year after year, and them up there in Washington spending fifty thousand dollars a day keeping an army in Nicarauga or some place. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Found just some change and a dollar or two. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanna make a payment on a suit of clothes with that five dollars,” Harrison said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lady chuckles and drops a few dollars into the hat. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The building was abandoned by everyone who could make a dollar on it. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He filled out a check, to me, for fifteen hundred dollars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When the last canister was sold, the boys had taken in a grand total of fifty dollars and seventy-five cents. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I miss you, too, honey. You know I do. How are things? More silver dollar days or wooden nickels?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It’ll be five hundred dollars you can pay it at the window down the hall to your left,” said the judge in a bored monotone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The woman at Allstate had tried to convince him to insure his life for more than a million dollars, given that he had four children, and how much the business relied on him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He had once bought a girlie magazine, paying for it with trembling fingers—a dollar and a quarter, his finances shot down in flames until his next allowance. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nervously handled the four dollars we had scraped together. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She paid with her twenty-dollar bill and got one dollar and seventy-five cents back in change. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“So I understand you paid six hundred dollars for the tickets, is that correct?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop gave me four dollars this morning and told me to buy something nice for myself. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Divide thirty-five dollars by, say, three weeks, minus Boseman’s share, and the lost bounty was a very small price to pay for silence and a restful mind. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

One part of the rule is correct: it’s odd to use that with a nonrestrictive relative clause, as in The pair of shoes, that cost a thousand dollars, was hideous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I put down the debit card Mom had given me—Daisy never had any money and my mom let me charge twenty-five dollars a week as long as I kept straight As. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t have a hurricane when you’re making seven and eight dollars a day picking beans. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Uncle Al has promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The salary was ten dollars for the first week and twelve thereafter. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It meant that Harriet could find jobs for herself, and would pay Stewart fifty or sixty dollars a year. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to hold up the twenty- dollar bill so he could see it before he unlocked the doors. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sneaky hands her the Skittles and gets the dollar, but when Angel starts to sit down, Sneaky shakes his head. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Freak goes, "I've got two dollars in change, you can have it but we have to go home now." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

At Mrs. Mason’s house, she handed me an envelope with the money for the groceries and another twenty dollars. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the ensuing national hysteria Congress funneled millions upon millions of dollars into the California- based aerospace industry, and the boom was on. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped another twenty dollars into the envelope and wrote that I hoped it would cover costs until my parents could figure things out. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She was pulling a thousand dollars here and there from a lot of different accounts to keep the transactions small and avoid suspicion as she put together the money to pay off Angela. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The average debt among graduates was two hundred dollars, it said, and the average four-year tab was more than two thousand. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“First a bicycle, so I wouldn’t have to walk to school. That would only cost me twenty dollars.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Your pa owe the man fifty dollars and it’s on you to honor the debt. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Char’s sister Juju is gonna pay her four hundred dollars if she gets herself through seventh grade this time. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Then we would have lost forty dollars. That’s what we started with, right? We lose the whole Walleye thing and all we’ve really lost is that, the original forty dollars.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“In Philadelphia two front-row seats sold for seven hundred fifty dollars. Each.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I have twenty allowance dollars coming to me.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bobby sat there and resolutely counted every dollar. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord! A thousand and twenty dollars. This is terrible. How I’m gonna pay that?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The payout is six hundred to one, so when you bet a dollar and hit, you’ll come away with six hundred dollars. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saved up some money—round three hundred dollars, yes indeed, right here in his pocket. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Did she have a DVD player, because they’d gotten this VHS player at a thrift store for only five dollars—Five dollars! We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My Snickers bar says something about winning a million dollars, so I read the back label to see what the rules are, imagining that my candy bar is a winner. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

At the end of it, I’m a dollar richer and stiff all over. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He wished he could just slide six thousand dollars into his mom’s wallet. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pretended to be grumpy about the five dollars Gilly gave her, but there was a greedy gleam in her eyes. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The noise around me muffles, and the image in my mind of the five thousand dollars starts to waver until it finally blurs into something I no longer recognize. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Same thing. Just caused trouble. She went away. I heard she’s living in Philadelphia. Does dressmaking. I heard she gets ten dollars just for making one dress.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We take in roomers to help out. We just simple people here. You can call this home, if you got a mind to. The rent’s three dollars.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One sheet. That’s two dollars and a half. Who can we borrow that from?” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The customer asked if she could buy all of them for ten dollars. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“That thing’s probably worth thousands of dollars, Mom!” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Even Mr. Spencer, our quiet neighbor, donated a check for fifteen dollars. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

More than sixty million dollars’ worth of real estate was built here last year, he said, and it’s all because of the World’s Fair. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We’re offering ten thousand dollars for your head on a platter.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two or three thousand dollars, sometimes,” Pearl told him with pride, and Moody did quick mental math: if Mia sold ten pictures a year... Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom takes one look at the price of the cheapest option and shouts, “No way, Jose! Abuela only sent you twenty dollars—” It takes all my willpower to not point out Abuela sent forty. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now,” he declared, “is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever will take up either or both of said runaways, and return them to the subscriber or secure them in any way shall have a reward of 30 dollars for each. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell if he liked me or not, so I told him, “Your sunglasses are one hundred dollars.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If they increased the number of franchises from thirteen to twenty-six, they could each make one hundred and twenty-eight dollars in one day. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Supposedly this Devil One person was going to get one million dollars from the United States to pay soldiers to do that, go against the very person they all just elected. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m paying you fifty dollars for this,” Miles hissed, turning toward the bed. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She brushed the hair from her clothes and gave Aisha a thin roll of dollars. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Heavens. I think you might have died in that warehouse rather than wire one of us for a couple of hundred dollars.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And then somehow, the Colonel talked me into paying five dollars for a pack of Marlboro Lights I had no intention of ever smoking. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“It got me five dollars on election day.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She put two dollars and eighty cents back in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing on the menu for less than twenty dollars, and that included cereal. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But six hundred dollars is a lot of money. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Returning, unpacking the groceries, piling the dollars and change beside the toaster, washing the apples before putting them in the refrigerator, Dicey heard herself humming the song about Peggy-o. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my cigar box of dollars and scrip left from my defunct newspaper delivery business, I went to Junior, the clerk at the drugstore counter, to find out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wait a minute, I say, and run inside to get the five dollars. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s down at the bottom of the mountains, but it would take at least an hour to get here. Cost several hundred dollars.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

That way I don’t have no mowing to tend to and she let me pick whatever I need, save me two or three dollars ever week. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Before the next shapeup, Kaztauskis slipped five dollars to the uniformed man, and this time, as he stood with the others hoping to be chosen, the uniformed man pointed at him. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“A thousand dollars? He will not get a cent. We shall have him prosecuted immediately. Contact our attorneys, Mother.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles Parker did not know much about the American language—but he understood the American dollar very well, and he had used his money and influence to admit his cousin to the asylum without delay. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh, man,” Hudson whimpered, reaching out for the sand dollar. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Dallas reached under his mattress and held out another twenty dollars. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My sweater cost me forty dollars,” the young man said. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two dollars times twelve minutes equals twenty-four dollars. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house where he lived was squared into four rooms and the rent was a dollar fifty per person. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were seventeen dollar signs in each row. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

If asked to, she could have capably wrangled seventeen dollars from the English or caught a pigeon with her bare hands. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I would. I know where I can buy one for twenty-five dollars. I know the man.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Four dollars a week,” she figured to herself, “and the dollar and a half from the paper route. Both of them could stay in school. There’d be enough to eat. It would get us through.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had ten dollars over her fare in her pocket book. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“He said he’ll pay you the same as me, ten dollars a week.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Each player paid a dollar, with two free entries allowed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t refer merely to the glaring fact that the minister eventually acquires houses and Cadillacs while the faithful continue to scrub floors and drop their dimes and quarters and dollars into the plate. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I look at the price tag on a simple shirt, and it’s nineteen dollars! Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We split the cost of the candy, and I hate going into Daddy’s sock to take out seven dollars and some change. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He bought the warehouse from the city for a hundred dollars when I was in third grade. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the first article, the machine had created dozens of slender metal blocks, some scarcely wider than the edge of a silver dollar, arranged into squares. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yet students like me do not feel welcomed here, Dr. Cook. Are we just dollar signs to you all, or are we actual human beings?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A homeless man passed through our subway car and asked for a dollar. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And my dad was home and sober, and he gave me a dollar. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miri had on new shoes that looked like they cost a bazillion dollars. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He’d heard about a piece of gum chewed by Madonna going for six thousand dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

So he announced in front of the whole class, “if whoever wrote this Valentine tells me who they are, I will give them a dollar.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

To a man who had nothing to eat but bread and perhaps a piece of cheese in a public rest room, five dollars could mean a great deal. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Next time he runs,” Luther told his wife, Helen, “bet a hundred dollars. It will be like taking candy from a baby.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The copayments on her prescriptions came to about eighty dollars each month. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I wished I had hit for die daily dollar that I played with my town man, paying him by the week. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still in the stall, she counted her money, both pesos and dollars. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

All at once Grandma started to pull dollars out of her purse and Daddy did the same. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An amateur photographer bringing a conventional large camera and the necessary tripod had to pay ten dollars, about what many out-of-town visitors paid for a full day at the fair, including lodging, meals, and admission. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I just need six hundred dollars. Double your money, guaranteed. And I won’t be taking out any taxes.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mother’s letters said, Say your prayers and Don’t wear heels because they make you too tall clipped to a check for thirty-five dollars. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“He said that he gave you the signed baseball and a hundred dollars.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It felt good when the foreman paid us off and I had a couple of dollars to put in my pocket. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the old man had given five million dollars to colored people. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he told us about the time a friend of his found a bag containing twenty thousand dollars. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Often when we were hungry my mother would beg me to go to my father’s job and ask him for a dollar, a dime, a nickel . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty dollars buys an invitation to a smaller room, where a dancer brushes her breasts against the men’s faces. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I just love this dog,” she said, “and I’m going to buy her. I haven’t got a dollar. All I have is ninety-seven cents.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house—for the most part designed by Mr. Clutter, who thereby proved himself a sensible and sedate, if not notably decorative, architect—had been built in 1948 for forty thousand dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had to be worth like a gazillion dollars. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s great stuff. Pharmaceutical. During exams you can get ten or fifteen dollars a hit for this, easy.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The favorite thing to sign was a dollar bill. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the kid made the shot, Finkle Foods would give the kid one million dollars. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now we are to get by on zero dollars a month in Belgian francs, and it doesn’t take long to figure out that story problem. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got twenty dollars to put tape on the bridge of his glasses, wear too-short pants, and don argyle socks for three days. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Then, on Saturday mornings, I began carrying packages for women at the A&P, sometimes earning as much as three dollars in a single day. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I still had fifteen dollars from Henry’s twenty but to call another cab I’d have to go back inside the jail and I didn’t want to do that. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

That was only a few dollars less than Mama herself. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Larry turned my dollar over and over, and I started getting nervous. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “There ain’t no place in here big ’nough to be hiding four thousand dollars; maybe it’s all been spent?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I proudly handed one of my dollar bills to the cashier to pay for The Nutcracker. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe my ears when the cap’n said, “Five hunnert dollars if we gets him. I think your knowledge is worth every penny of that.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Lawrence feared that the failure at Y-12 would destroy the army’s confidence in the entire bomb project, with billions of dollars—indeed, the entire war effort—hanging in the balance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If he could answer that question, he could go on talk shows and make a million dollars. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes five hundred dollars would be on the table. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were my number translated into dollars, it would buy you about three buckets of fried chicken. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“It cost four dollars to make the copies. I figured we’d split it.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Families struggled to put food on the table, while the royal family spent hundreds of millions of dollars on parties to celebrate the monarchy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He fished in his pocket and drew out a handful of coins, from which he gave her five gold dollars. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the returns. Seventy-five boxes sold—one hundred fifty dollars. Count it.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes a few dollars from his wages and goes out. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He loved to flash his “Kansas City roll,” probably fifty one-dollar bills folded with a twenty on the inside and a one-hundred dollar bill on the outside. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The merely rich, making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, will shoulder a disproportionate share of the tax burden. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Is my money too foreign now? It’s dollars.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It got so that she would actually come to rehearsal with crisp dollar bills all ready in her hands to give us. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I earned one dollar in all of me and Mama's years of playing that game. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

When my mother and I had taken the dollar to the post office to exchange it, we had walked out with twenty-four Zim dollars. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He spent fourteen days in jail, was fined ten dollars, and departed from Worcester on another wet November afternoon. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We dole out billions of dollars each year in foreign aid. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was finished, Pocock paid eight of the boys a dollar each to deliver it to the docks in Seattle, so it could be shipped south. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Enough about the twenty-five dollars. Look, we’re all a little high-strung today. How about if we do a little storytelling instead of geography?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the end of the semester, I had to take an important exam, which cost one Zimbabwean dollar. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It helped him to see that every regularly priced carton he bought meant that the white man’s government took around two dollars of a black man’s hard-earned money for taxes, not for tobacco. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he stood in the door and paid all the ugly women two dollars not to come in. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Playing my hunches, many a day I’d have up to forty dollars on two numbers, hoping for that fabulous six hundred-to-one payoff. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She really wanted to get a Kaira DeLeon official tour T-shirt, but when they got to the front, they were told it cost twenty-eight dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

A few pennies and dimes were on the floor, but the quarters, the nickels, the five-dollar bill, and all of the single dollars were gone. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She could certainly do that, urinate on a man for a hundred dollars. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“How about two hundred dollars a night? Do you think the twins have that kind of money? Who the hell do you think is paying for it?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But for every dollar a consumer spends on HFCS, say in a soft drink, farmers get only four cents. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Only after five years of litigation and tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees was he able to secure return of his jet. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In case we see a certain subway musician, I pull a dollar from the bottom of my piggy bank. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Here ya go, Ma,” I said, and handed her nine dollars from my Johnny Cakes earnings. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She throws a crumpled dollar down and always asks for coconut or sometimes papaya juice, and we send it up to her in a paper shopping bag she lets down with clothesline. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s lots of cool stuff you can buy with a million dollars,” Annie pointed out. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger peeled off a dollar bill for each of them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If Mr. Big Bucks Ballard said he gave me the signed baseball and a hundred dollars, then he’s a liar. You got that?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But at twenty dollars a week, the price was right. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing the bracelet that I made for her, and that made me feel like one hundred dollars. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were six silver dollars and a double handful of copper coins. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Other than Mr. Tanner, I don’t even know no one that’s ever had fifty dollars at one time, sir. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“He thought it was his fault, didn’t he, Shady? Because he helped Ned raise the twenty-five dollars to join the army underage and then Ned was killed. Because he thought he was a jinx.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

All these cost two dollars and thirty-five cents. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reward offered for her capture was twelve thousand dollars. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, Mr. Nagahachi tells the captain he’ll buy the whole fish for sixteen dollars a pound, cash or certified check. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had been trying to save money for a whole year, but she had only thirty dollars. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I declared, as if my few dollars would make a difference. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I take the fifty dollars from her with no questions asked. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

"Half that money is Megan's. She just gave it to me to give to the Animal Rescue League. I only made a hundred and four dollars." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

When we had dressed the M.C. came in and gave us each five dollars, except Tatlock, who got ten for being last in the ring. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I hauled in the pot, something over five hundred dollars—my first real stake in Boston—John got up from the table. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I handed him my two dollars and counted out fifty cents. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I also really like Wendy’s ’cause they put bacon on the burger on the dollar menu, and sometimes Mom lets me get a Frosty if she has a coupon. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“So she offered us a challenge to spend over five million dollars in a month, but we couldn’t tell anyone, and there were about a hundred other rules.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The kid with the best poem would be chosen to shoot the million dollar shot. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then the whole squad of cheerleaders sang, “Oh my dollar, Oh my dollar, Oh my dol-lar Valentine!” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

When they had made Trask’s will they thought he might have a few hundred dollars to leave his sons. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I kept most of it and put two dollars back in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jasper’s reward was fifty dollars, fifteen of that for the tinker who brought the fugitive to jail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Details such as food, drink, a change of clothing, a place to sleep, and needing more than the seventeen dollars squirreled away in the zipper pouch of his book bag. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. Bouncer wage star at fifty dollar a week.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slid my wrinkled dollars up on the counter almost as if it were a secret note I was passing in class. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“What is it if I let you make five hundred dollars to let me make ten thousand? ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the North, men said that it had cost anywhere between forty and a hundred thousand dollars for the United States Government to return Bums to his master. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was made out to the American Cancer Society in the amount of five hundred dollars. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“I know you have her power of attorney. And I know she still believes that thousand dollars is in this business.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Sure I did. I was going to wear it tonight, but it was too big in the bust and had to be altered. It was gas blue with lavender beads. Two hundred and sixty-five dollars." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Since I did not require any facilities, sewer, water, or electricity, the price to me for stopping the night was one dollar. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a man could give five million dollars away, then millions must be as common to him as nickels. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to convince my parents that I needed an expensive dress—two hundred dollars—to wear to the event. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“You got a dollar you can loan us?” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

That is why he sold the vast Louisiana Territory to Jefferson for the bargain price of just fifteen million dollars. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“We can give you gift cards for a couple thousand dollars, and we’ll pay for a hotel.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have much. Only about seventy-five dollars right now.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel belted out the words: “One million dollars.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The highest contribution—eight hundred dollars—came from Bud Gleason; the lowest contribution—a hundred and fifty—from Granny Smith. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ninety dollars was more than he made in two days of digging. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

If I missed the shot on purpose, for the rest of my life I would be thinking that I gave up the chance to make an easy million dollars. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Trixie here earns only forty dollars a week, and she does have some seniority.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You spent a thousand dollars on something that you’re not passionate about?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He put the three silver dollars upon the table. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t matter! It’s our money. If we want to spend a million dollars on a concert, we can!” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

In about a half hour, he had all the change back, including my dollar, and instead of going to town to buy something, I went home with nothing, and I was bitter. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They stick a hundred- dollar fine on you for killing a gator. I’m telling you,” he laughed sourly, “they got all the loopholes plugged. There ain’t a way you can win in this state.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear Will Hamilton is telling around you made fifteen thousand dollars in beans. That true?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he borrowed another fifty dollars and Mister Singer went on the note with him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I jog back to where she is and drop a dollar into her hat. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe ten bucks in coins and dollar bills. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he recognizes Doktè Paul and he’s not so insistent on his price after Farmer points out, “And if you get sick, I won’t ask you for a hundred dollars.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

On education, Barack and I had leveraged billions of dollars to help girls around the world get the schooling they deserve. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This sparked a money-throwing war, which ended when Miles paid for our food, passed the drink carrier and bags to me, and then folded up the ten dollars and wedged it under my thigh. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A brother from Ningbo who makes his sister cry with joy when he returns nine thousand dollars plus interest. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got one thousand dollars for school,” I said excitedly. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Once it had to be ripped open and two dollars taken out to pay the druggist the time Francie ran a rusty nail into her knee. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five dollars for your old tricycle that still has sparklers on the wheels. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, I'd certainly love to help out your team, son. I think I have a few dollars in here. Yes, here we go.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s a couple hundred thousand dollars of cigarettes in here.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I got by between paydays by neglecting overdue bills and borrowing money from Robin, so twice a month, when a few hundred dollars went into my account, it was gone within hours. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was in this manner that I discovered a room for immediate occupancy, in a house on a quiet street, the listing said, for eight dollars per week. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They know they will come here and live eight or nine to a room and earn ten dollars a day, maybe save five. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell your friends to buy tickets. They’re now on sale in the student activities room. The price is seventy-five cents for students and one dollar for adults.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

From the moment the several hundred delegates arrived, a profusion of free champagne, partly provided by American dollars, was available to loosen international barriers. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

She says she will never cut her hair or wear makeup in her life and if I paid her one hundred dollars she wouldn't paint her fingernails red. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime there was a thousand dollars in earnest money—Carl put it on the table. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Why are we living in a hotel? Why are we letting our son burn through five million dollars? This should make us all upset.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fat Frankie peels a dollar off his impressive cash roll and tucks it in under the windshield wiper alongside mine. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His take-home pay was good—one hundred and twenty-five dollars each month. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

To put up even a half-decent fight they would need a billion dollars. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, what will he say when he comes to that awful fifty dollars!” thought Meg, with a shiver. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

With no written work today, I’m thinking it will be a silver dollar day. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Looking over at me, he said, “What do you say? Want to bet two dollars your hounds can tree him?” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Made me a million dollars today. How ’bout you?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Friend, 1 haven't a dollar in the world, but if thee in Wilmington. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liam’s mom always makes food just right: the pancakes are the size of silver dollars, the eggs are soft-scrambled, the bacon crispy. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I have to go into the kitchen, open the box, get a bowl out. . . . This doesn’t include your dishes, you know. If you want a bowl and spoon washed, it’ll be another dollar.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

"It seemed to be an ordinary silver dollar, with a metal loop at one end so it could be fastened onto a key chain around the neck." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s three dollars and twenty-five cents’ worth of brown water,” Tee reminded her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Thirty-eight dollars and fourteen cents is nice, but it’s not enough. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Look, you can save a whole dollar! In a year’s time I could probably save enough for a whole bottle of wine.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he was out another thirty dollars for the ad in the paper, and it would cost ten more to change it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Our God is bigger than the facts. He’s not limited by the laws of nature, science, or the almighty dollar.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He was going to take part of that eighteen thousand dollars and throw himself a funeral the way some people throw a party. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s this guy who wants to buy it for a hundred and fifty dollars.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Besides— she broke into a cold sweat—this man was likely to be worth one hundred dollars. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny White had a grand total of fourteen dollars in his pocket. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A nickel hit paid twenty-seven dollars, half of the month’s rent. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

That year, Louis cleared a profit of twenty million dollars, up from nine million before the war started. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“When you was out getting ’em shackles, he tolt the sheriff he wasn’t ’bout to let three thousand dollars walk out his life without no fight. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I wish I could draw a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or a fist full of twenty dollar bills, and perform some magic trick and make it real. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

By those mementos I’d found under the floorboard—the Wiggle King lure, the Liberty Head silver dollar, Shady’s cork, and the tiny nesting doll—I was connected to this place and those people. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He has remained faithful to the first floor where, for the single admission price of ten dollars, he has a choice of activities. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“We have one, and it’s forty-one thousand dollars.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the till, plucked out a dollar, and handed it to Alex. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Breaking the Silence Can I have two hundred dollars to take to the Dallas Cup? you ask. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"Twenty dollars," he said, trying to lighten the situation. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I hear fifty . . . sixty-five . . . seventy . . the bidding was laggardly, nobody seemed really to want Babe, and the man who got her, a Mennonite farmer who said he might use her for plowing, paid seventy-five dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s less than a month! You owe me fifty dollars, baby.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I thanked her for the very generous dollar bill and told her I would send her something in return soon. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Dicey called the bus station and found out that it cost twenty-six dollars to get to Crisfield. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dill accepted the dollar and tucked it in his shirt pocket. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It made about as much sense to him as a fifty-five-dollar ticket costing sixty dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“With ten thousand dollars, we can get tickets out of here to someplace, can’t we?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her eyes narrowed and he changed his mind about the twelve dollars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama sewed twenty dollars into my pajama seam. Also in Akira’s.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Morris sent two canvas bags containing “410 Spanish dollars, two English crowns, 10 shillings sixpence, and a French half crown.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a fortune, as we could have if you’d let us give them a contract, but, say, twenty-five thousand dollars.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Peel a dollar from the stack that Jenkins gives each of us in the morning, the bill clipped to an envelope so they can send in their name and address and family and occupation. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had a million dollars, I’d invest all of my money to cure this disease. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Why is it that we pay for those things without blinking but won’t pay an extra dollar for a dozen organic eggs? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s going to be hundreds of thousands of dollars in repairs between both buildings.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Tucker had one more idea: he was going to volunteer to go over and swipe two dollars from the lunch counter. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soda machine keeps spitting out my crumpled dollar, disgusted. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I threw a dollar down on the table and walked out the door. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I’ll pay two dollars and twenty-five cents an hour and put Concha in charge of her.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the afternoon, I had collected from West Indian Archie for a fifty-cent combination bet; he had paid me three hundred dollars right out of his pocket. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people are more likely to bet a penny for a six-dollar payout, or if you split the bet, a penny will bring you a dollar for any combination hit. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mary Anne, this little prank has cost me over fifty dollars,” Bull said, controlling himself with effort. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last night he had also given me an envelope with two hundred dollars in ten-and twenty-dollar bills to put in my suitcase. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This morning she had paid thirty-five dollars a share. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day he threw away another piece of his pride and dignity for a few dollars, but I couldn’t stop him. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I handed the old man a hundred thousand Afghanis, or the equivalent of about three dollars. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"You just got ten dollars from Grandma for your birthday." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He sold his tuxedo to a secondhand store for five dollars. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my way off the train I dropped a dollar in his cup, something I never do, hoping to make it his good day too. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The captains, he said, were paying ten dollars for a picul of pepper. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Mom left, she gave me two hundred dollars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I work mornings and evenings for three dollars a week,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sent his mother three dollars every week. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had forty-seven dollars left, and some change. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

That sparked a thought: I'd just earned twenty dollars from babysitting, which I was planning to spend on silver hoop earrings. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

These had five, six rooms; some had ten and if you could manage fifty, sixty dollars a month, you could have one. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just a few weeks ago two men offered my son, Eric, a couple of hundred dollars to locate a sharp- shinned hawk nest for them.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now his works sell for tens of thousands of dollars because some rich person turned the media spotlight in his direction. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But fifty dollars—how could I ever get fifty dollars? Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ten dollars and seventy-four cents is your total.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And it was from Cody that he inherited money--a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And then you see somebody you know at the front of the line, so you give her your dollar and she buys the candy bar for you. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“One year I actually sold it for ten dollars and ten cents,” Mr. Warren told the class. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

When the train pulled out of Hangzhou the next day, the Hsus found themselves depleted of some nine thousand dollars’ worth of goodwill. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two dollars she hated to release turned out to be well spent, for Teapot did have a fracture, although the doctor said poor diet had contributed substantially to the daintiness of his bones. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me how much you have! Four dollars? Five? How much?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dream books that cost a dollar would say what number nearly any dream suggested. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lawyer was referring to the reward of one thousand dollars that had been offered by the Hutchinson News, for information resulting in the arrest and conviction of the Clutter murderers. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve done enough to botch this affair. I bid five thousand dollars on the rest of the property, Carlson. Let’s get this thing over with.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But—and here’s a big but—even though I was afraid of both of them, the accordion-man and his dog, I always dropped a dollar bill into the open accordion case in front of them. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of dollar bills—ones, fives, tens, twenties, all wrinkled and worn—spilled into my lap. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My dad used the word “inflation” to explain why we no longer ate bread, which rose in price overnight from two to five dollars. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Fifty-two dollars. I hope you’re going to do something worthwhile with the money.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I had more than eight dollars in cash. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

So when we pulled up to the international terminal, I reached into my envelope and pulled out a crumpled dollar bill. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Everything had been readied—new shoes that did not pinch, spiral notepads that rustled like dollars from the bank, and yellow pencils sharpened to a decimal point, without a tooth mark to be found. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Bananas, mostly. Things in my domain. My drawings sell at the gift store for twenty-five dollars apiece, with a frame.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“The goal’s twelve hundred dollars, but I always ask for more. Got to go big.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Where are we going to get four hundred and ninety-nine dollars?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I drove directly to the grocery store and cashed a check for three hundred dollars, which was half of my savings. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Since she works in a laundromat with coin-operated machines, she's always giving customers quarters for their dollars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Downtown, he paid the two dollars, or whatever it was, for a regular city peddler’s license. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The purse was five thousand dollars and I was due for half. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I have two dollars and thirty-six cents total to spend on my sisters and my parents.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She paid five dollars to a lawyer to look up the wills of the various masters to whom Old Rit had belonged. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Funny. Very funny. But they’d give a thousand dollars for him, I bet. Nine hundred for sure.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And yet,” Ximena pointed out, smiling in that sly way of hers, “you were still late today. Maybe we should charge you a dollar from now on?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Who in their right mind would pass up two million dollars? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Gomersindo Leyba said, “Knowing Bud, he probably rented his living room out at six dollars an hour to that state cop.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had seventy- five cents between them when Hagar declared her needs, and six dollars owed to them from customers. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro came to the white man for a roof or for five dollars or for a letter to the judge; the white man came to the Negro for love. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“Man, if I had five dollars, I could pay down on a suit. Five dollars is almost half a week’s wages for me.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t let on that I’d seen the menu of that new shop and the sundaes cost almost ten dollars. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He had had an allowance since he was ten, starting at five dollars per week and increasing steadily with inflation and age up to its current twenty dollars. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Vonetta surprised me by saying, “Not too much money, Delphine. We don’t need candy. We need thirteen more dollars for the concert at Madison Square Garden.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I believe you owe him three hundred dollars.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Eight dollars a pound for skinny fish. Eighteen for nice fat fish.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I rule that out. We are not electrocuting two million dollars worth of robots to locate Nestor 10. There are other ways.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

These people spend three billion dollars annually for licenses, tackle, boats, camping equipment, gasoline, and lodgings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Two dollars a bottle,” she said crossly as she examined Tendai’s chest. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The department’s “location pay,” meant to help compensate officers assigned to Sing Sing, is considered a joke—about fifteen dollars a week. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bought two dollars worth of delicacies: sliced tongue, smoked salmon, creamy-white slices of smoked sturgeon and crisp rolls. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I confessed that I was a bit low, and instantly an aide came back with an envelope containing four hundred dollars in cash. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But you don't need two hundred and fifty-six dollars to win!" she shouted. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

It sat among the pine trees on a lot Henri rented for five dollars a year. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would leave him with only a hundred and fifty-seven dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The dead man’s hand was propped back on the headrest of my seat, holding a crisp, neatly folded twenty dollar bill between the index and middle fingers. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Because we don’t have enough money. Each ticket is two forty-five. That makes nine dollars and eighty cents all together and we’ve only got seven dollars.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom also drew pastel portraits on the spot for anyone willing to pay eighteen dollars, and every now and then she got a commission. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Work as a technician at a vuvv firm and you could make a few hundred dollars a week. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I reached into my pocket and pulled out a shiny Susan B. Anthony silver dollar. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re about four hundred guys in the school. That means everybody’s got to sell fifty boxes. Usually, the guys have a quota of twenty-five boxes each to sell and the price is a dollar.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I came along and helped look after her two toddlers, she said she’d pay me two hundred dollars at the end of the summer and buy me a bus ticket back to Welch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sewn on the back of the jacket was a replica of the American eagle on the dollar bill. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Poor!” said Mr. Popper, “I’m not poor. These birds have been earning us five thousand dollars a week.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

And while it’s true that the owners of the larger yards paid me more—I was getting thirty to forty dollars a lawn the second day—there was also the distance factor. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

He is resting peacefully in the slave burial grounds and we made certain he had a Christian service and paid fifteen dollars for a marked grave. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It cost a hundred and twenty dollars, but that seemed like a bargain compared to the jacket. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

And if that wasn’t enough, paying ten dollars a month to somebody to tell you how to lose it fast, that either dont know anything about it or is in cahoots with the telegraph company. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, twenty-two million black people should tomorrow give a dollar apiece to build a skyscraper lobby building in Washington, D.C. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So what did you make, like three dollars?" she asked. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I walk in the kitchen where Sugar’s counting out her nine dollars and fifty cents, the money she earned at the Benefit last night. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He was caught red-handed, holding the chewed-up two dollars in his front legs. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad giving me a hundred dollars just when I needed money. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled out some demon paper dollars and coins. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the song ends, I give them a dollar, the equivalent of about ten minutes of sweat. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit in the sagging seat of the Ford Leroy’s still paying his boss twelve dollars every week for. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I have a hundred dollars saved up. I just need forty more.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had paid seventy-four dollars for the car, and it was worth that—or nearly. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Five dollars is cheap since I don’t have any friends except Cathy who is only my friend till Tuesday. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: If everyone gets two dollars, you gonna get about two million dollars for your aid checks! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You spent a hundred dollars on a Halloween costume?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found the crispest dollar bill and folded it into my letter. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I nodded to her, and she exchanged the dollar. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He had his old afterschool job back at McGarrity’s and Mama gave him one of the two dollars for pocket money. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two dollars and forty-five cents can buy a great deal,” said Mr. Goldman. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I didn't have to explain that I always got just fries so I could save a dollar to get sunflower seeds later. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“And only two dollars a box—a bargain.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent almost four dollars on supper at the mall, and none of them had dessert. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the billions of dollars that GSS raked in selling land that didn’t actually exist, they made a killing selling virtual objects and vehicles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Spent? What four thousand dollars you talking ’bout?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Mom didn’t believe in spending thousands of dollars for summer activities when I could have fun at home for free. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

In addition to absconding with twenty-five thousand dollars and giving Milton false hopes of my return, Father Mike was abandoning his own family. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By writing worthless checks right around the clock, he expected to haul in three, maybe four thousand dollars within a twenty-four-hour period. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He would say to her, ‘I got a dollar seventy-five. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The Superconducting Super Collider, a multibillion dollar project that was contemplated until the early 1990s, was going to be the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

McCutchen’s silver dollar landed smack in the middle of the room. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But another version of the story springs up sometimes, one of him with pockets full of a few thousand dollars, gambling winnings he kept for himself, on his way to the Rocky Mountains. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Flowers once, but you were disappointed with that treat, so I gave you a dollar to buy whatever you wanted with it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This poor old tree isn’t going to sell by the end of the day, and it needs someone to love it,” she told the man and offered him three dollars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Carrying boxes up and down stairs wasn't going to earn me a million dollars. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Why should my team be expected to raise twenty thousand dollars? The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

This year it just happened to be five hundred dollars. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felix would rather play basketball and video games, but there were dollars to burn. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

There had to be hundreds of dollars worth of them spilling to the floor, and I just stared as they fell. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Nor were they beneficiaries of the billions of dollars' worth of food aid that poured into North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

My wages were fifteen dollars a week; the hours were long, but I ate my meals on the job. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when they were on the verge of sawing it in two, so each would have her allotted share, Papa settled the squabble by giving the oldest one a silver dollar. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have only seven dollars left,” he said, biting his lower lip. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was now thirty thousand dollars in the hole, and soon officially out of business. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Patterson normally charged a dollar a lesson, but she offered to give Marian lessons free of charge. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Then they talked about what they would do with twenty-five dollars. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evan was never going to earn a hundred dollars with that kind of profit. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

When the ten minutes were up, Susan gave Mother twenty dollars and the next customer came in. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They had taught him, and out of the two or three dollars they had earned each week they saved. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They switch them from small field to small field, and, no matter what, they will scrape together the dollars to buy hay bales for the winter months to feed their horses. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh yeah, what we gave Big Joe and the new Mrs. Big Joe for a wedding gift was a pair of boss imitation Tiffany lamps that cost sixty-three dollars. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sneaky opens his lunch pack, pulls out the M&M’s, and waits for Aiden to hand him a dollar, which is what he charges for most of the candy he sells. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I had a thousand dollars in my bank account. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, it’s amazing how twenty-five dollars can help a recruitment officer overlook a thing or two. Maybe you should try it, Ned old boy, but then, company vouchers might not do the trick.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nine dollars a bale, some said, if you grew your own; eleven dollars if you had a white friend to carry it up for pricing. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Papa said he would pay one American dollar for ten cakes, and she accepted. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

WorldCom and Global Crossing fabricated billions of dollars in revenues to pump up their stock prices. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

My mother’s sole comment was: “You could have had a dollar. But you can’t eat a dead dog, can you?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He handed her ten dollars so she could pay for the blood test that was required for a marriage license. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Take the hat for four dollars. That’s what it cost me wholesale.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thirty dollars,” the man behind the counter said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Told me he spent nearly two thousand dollars buying what he needs for his chemistry class this year.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"I'm sorry about all of this. Tell Newman to give you a thousand dollars, but now it's time for me to get on with it." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The goods have been donated by members and local shops, and the auction is expected to generate more than six thousand dollars this year, five hundred more dollars than last year. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ve put away five dollars for every article. It’s up to thirty-five dollars now.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“And fair’s fair. Give this girl two dollars too.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s there in an old British army uniform, feeding the machine dollar bills, but it takes a lot to buy a gun and we’re running out of time. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Mama said eight dollars would be nearer right. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, out of every dollar spent on food in this country, ninety-two cents goes to these non-farmers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Angel puts a few dollars in the hat, and I drop in a handful of change, just like we talked about. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He didn’t look at it or nothing, he just stuck it in his pocket and I heard it bang up against some silver dollars. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The hundred dollars I sent home with your father. When you didn’t come by on Monday, I gave it to him for—” He stopped. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And you drove all the way in to have me tell you that you sprained your back and charge you two dollars?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Please, Bryson, can I borrow”—he looked at the price—“four dollars and seventy-nine cents? I’m broke.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He slowed for the toll booth, took the boy's dollar, and paid. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the car, Dad took out the money he’d won and counted off forty dollars, which he passed to me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"My mother said gas was a dollar when she was a kid," Bit shot back. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Remember, no tracts sold for less than five hundred dollars.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The rent was fifty-five rupees a month—about a dollar in today’s terms, but a colossal fortune for her family. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have anything to give to An Linh, so I gave her a dollar. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way out of the café, Grampa stuffed a few dollar bills into a fruit jar labeled “Bryant and Milam Defense Fund: Contributions Welcome” on a table by the door. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

"And whoever makes the most money wins it all, the whole two hundred million dollars." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He later recounted: “I felt bad when the pen was handed to me, because it looked like the ones that I was always buying for a quarter or a half dollar.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried past because we would both have been embarrassed if he recognized me, the kid he used to toss a dollar tip. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both knew that Finkle didn’t want me to have a chance to warm up before my million dollar shot. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A dollar hit was worth two months of hard work. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It would cost you a whole quarter of a American dollar to go in the tent and see the conjurer do this! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“I only asked for a dollar to buy one from the machine!” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

As Kyle was doing some quick math to see if he’d spent his one hundred dollars, Charles Chiltington rolled up the aisle with a cart crammed full with five hundred dollars’ worth of loot. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Look,” she says, “I’ll give you a dollar discount right off the bat if you don’t call me ma’am again.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I had three hundred and twelve dollars in my wallet. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’ve got over two thousand dollars in the bank, I said, as if my own account was the only one that mattered. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twenty-five or fifty cents she had earned as a small girl rose to one or two dollars or more. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“Your median student in those studies comes from a family making over a hundred thousand dollars, and that’s in nineteen ninety dollars,” Cohen says. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We stopped inside Mean Lady Ming’s and gave her all the change we had left except for two dollar bills. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing is, I only had five dollars, not nearly enough to pay for anything — not for photos, not for food, not for gas, not for a hot dog and soda pop. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I put four cards on the counter by the register and dug a couple of dollar bills out of my pocket. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you didn’t think selling little bags of parsley for fifty dollars an ounce was against the law either.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

One friend chalked it up to Bobby’s winner-take-all mentality, saying, “If someone offers him a million dollars, he thinks there is a lot more available, and he wants it all.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I decided not to push the matter, but I did need a dollar and a quarter for a six-pack, so when I got home I asked my Old Lady for it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“They’re a quarter each down the store, but you can sell ’em in here for a dollar. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing on his mind was trying to figure out how on earth he was going to come up with four thousand dollars— and fast. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He was handicapped by illiteracy and he offered me the job of accompanying him on trips into the delta plantation area to write and figure for him, at wages of five dollars a week. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the fund received more press attention, ordinary people gave amounts as small as a dollar. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The camera is marked twenty dollars, which doesn’t seem like too much for a digital camera that works. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Someone always helped her out with five or maybe ten dollars. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

So he begged his father for bread, received two hundred dollars by return mail, and, early one morning, he clambered joyfully aboard a Trailways bus bound for the capital. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, in the mail, Dicey received a check from the Police Department of Peewauket, for fifty-seven dollars. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t need to worry about me and my overhalls long as Ah still got nine hundred dollars in de bank. Tea Cake got me into wearing ’em—following behind him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I can get a thousand dollars over by the Homestead,” Mrs. Reilly told the silent patrolman quietly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week before, he came home to say that the company had offered employees to be paid either in Zim dollars or in cups of mealie meal. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

From buttoning pants I to lifting a dollar out of your pocket, a good hook is essential. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The cost for my survival must have been hundreds of millions of dollars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made me feel sick thinking I was now ten dollars off budget. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I owed them fifty thousand dollars or a trophy. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It helped her headaches, but at fifty dollars for a third of an ounce, we couldn’t afford it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“The man said we could give as little as a dollar to the annual giving campaign,” Lolo argued last year. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I put my dollar on the counter and shrugged at him. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been awesome to come home with a giant check for ten million dollars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remember borrowing two hundred dollars from Ben, and it feeling like a million. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“It was like eight hundred dollars or something.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

There would be at least two dollars in it, but there was no one around to take his money or tell him what to do. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And somehow, even though he was playing the accordion, and no matter how quietly I crept over, the accordion-man would always hear the swoosh of the dollar bill as it fell into the accordion case. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Five dollars a week to start with; they’ll raise you if they like you,” he explained. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there wouldn’t of been more joy on his face if he’d just won a fist fight or made a hundred dollars on a land deal. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Every dollar — or, in your case, fifty cents — counts. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Anywhere from a few thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands. Depends on where, the menu, the number of people, a lot of things. But Michelle and I don't need anything lavish.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She still shops at the dollar stores in Englewood, her old down-and-out neighborhood. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

So we drove to Las Vegas, got married, and gambled away a few dollars. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Twelve whole dollars. That’s funny. But at least it’s better than the eight bucks you paid me last week.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We bought a used refrigerator from him once, and Carlos sold a box of magazines for a dollar. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gold borrowed a few dollars and hurried to the bus station. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That you can just write a check for two hundred and forty billion dollars and fix all the world’s problems?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“If Trulz allows the game to continue after rules have been broken, he will not be paid a bonus of five hundred thousand dollars ” She didn’t look proud of this condition. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the jewels were of poor quality, worth no more than twenty thousand dollars. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, Lyddie spent a dollar on a light summer work dress as her spring calico proved unbearable. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ridgeway bought him for five dollars and drew up emancipation papers the next day. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In the past twenty-five years, in dollars corrected for inflation, the annual international arms trade has gone from $300 million to much more than $20 billion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But not eighty-three dollars and sixty-two cents better. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He leans over and reaches inside his prosthetic leg and hands me three dollars. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Ah, lunch for two, sir? That will be one dollar.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Told a dude I would pay him two thousand dollars to bring me over, three hundred up front. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Their most valuable possession had been the one thousand dollars in inventory and equipment at the restaurant. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have that many customers, because I charged hundreds of dollars for a piece of flint. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

People scurried in and out of what was left of the casino, pushing wheelbarrows brimming with silver dollars scooped up from the opened vaults. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Let me guess, a dollar," I replied, as usual, digging into my pocket for a buck. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We spent our time, significantly, between the three- block section on Auburn Street where Negro financing and industry controls some eighty million dollars, and the section of the six Negro colleges. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know how much that show’ll spend in this town? About ten dollars,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freddie says, giving me that look again, the one that makes me feel green as a dollar bill. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while it took ten paper dollars to equal one silver dollar, then twenty, then forty. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kate said in a pleading voice, “Joe, do you think you could help me? If I gave you ten thousand dollars, do you think you could fix everything up?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So if Uncle Jim’s land is worth a million dollars, that means your land is worth a million dollars.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

While still in the air, he unscrewed the poison pin, keeping it in its small sheath; he then tossed the silver dollar to the ground below and returned the pin to his pocket. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I washed up the breakfast dishes, left his two hundred dollars on the kitchen counter, got into the car, and drove south toward home. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give him a dollar, and he counts back my change: “A nickel is eighty, a dime is ninety, and another dime; makes one dollar!” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“She sent me forty dollars in June, sir,” I explained. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He paid the dealer four dollars for a used six-chamber revolver. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She didn't need a lemonade stand on Sunday if she had two hundred and eight dollars today! The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Charlie entered the store and laid the damp dollar bill on the counter. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

In exchange for teaching five classes, he earns sixteen thousand dollars a year. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They generate tens of millions of dollars for the Osage, helping to fund their government, educational programs, and health-care benefits. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She joined “the lecturing corps” as an agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society, earning ten dollars a week, an amount equal to about $300 in today’s dollars. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the end, our meal cost less than thirty dollars, but we left Holly a twenty-dollar tip for putting up with us. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then remembering the weight of W.E. on her neck and shoulders and the pain as he yanked her hair in terror, she started to count out another dollar, but that would leave her only thirty-eight. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Plus, I didn't think a girl who could send me a dollar bill or a Reebok shirt could ever understand. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

All I needed to do was raise another forty dollars and I’d be able to get them here. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He’d stolen a twelve-ounce bottle of beer, one bottle of Wild Irish Rose, two packs of Newport cigarettes, and about a hundred dollars in cash. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He got paid a dollar an hour and had a hamburger with french fries and a Coke every day. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

"For a dollar, I'll eat gum from the bottom of the seat." Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She lent him a few hundred dollars, virtually all of her spending money. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hurt, and Shadow clutched the Liberty dollar tight in the palm of his hand, and waited for it to be over. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And I priced their palms, two for a dollar. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s an instant lottery ticket worth ten thousand dollars!” she cried. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I get paid forty-three dollars ever Friday, which come to $172 a month. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At the end of the letter, he wrote, Send me a US dollar and I will send you ours in my next letter. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, for twenty-three dollars it can be here in a day or two.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Five thousand dollars a week may sound like a great deal of money, and yet the Poppers were far from rich. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

On his way back he threw a dollar at me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was a little over eight dollars in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thirty thousand dollars is a lot of money.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. da Silva leaves and returns with a store-credit check in the amount of two hundred dollars. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I hand her an envelope with forty dollars from what I’ve saved from the Miss Myrna column, my allowance, money Mother has forced into my hands for beauty parlor appointments I never went to. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His watch and his two hundred dollars would be of no help out here, where all a man had was what he was born with, or had learned to use. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had actually thought about sending him a dollar, to show him our currency. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Dad’s a teacher and Mom’s a social worker, which means they don’t have those kinds of jobs where people make gazillions of dollars. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He ended up with seven dollars and fifty cents and bought us a tandem bicycle. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

George grabbed one of Ignatius’ paws and stuck two dollars in it. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the sand dollar I’d given the East River for a magic cleaning, the water here was pretty polluted. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Lovers can spend five dollars to get a red or pink heart with their initials on it mounted on the wall for Valentine’s Day. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Neighbors who could afford it soon began bidding against each other for the services of available nurses, until there were times when a nurse’s fee would reach four or five dollars a day. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The challenge was to find words that equaled one dollar when you added up their letter values. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Now that she was no longer an employee of Finkle Foods, I could enter the contest for the million dollar shot. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He tips me a dollar, and I get back in the car and feel Charlie there again. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

We also needed some supplies, so we’d brought along twenty dollars from the fireworks trade. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

For that matter, all the thousands of dollars I’d handled, and / had nothing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And we have five dollars exactly for souvenirs, so you’re out of luck.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dealt out eleven single dollars from a wad of bills and gave me those also. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of my salary I had begun to save a few dollars, for my determination to leave had not lessened. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” he began haltingly, “you want to keep Devlin and Burton out of town for a month and make a thousand dollars?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It shouldn’t have been an even hundred dollars. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d take what I could get, then. I can catch just as many fish with this pole as I could with a twenty-five dollar one.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hired me on the spot for forty dollars a week, in cash. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The impact of the disaster even reached Europe, where nearly one million dollars in cash was raised. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He reached into his cash drawer and pulled out two twenty- dollar bills and put them down on the desk. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was studying to be an anthropologist, I was also working as a police reporter for the famous Chicago City News Bureau for twenty-eight dollars a week. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took the child and left a note saying to leave a hundred dollars in the cemetery and signed it with the black imprint of a hand. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, said it sometimes cost him ten thousand dollars a week to run his operation. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t have to read it—I’m not asking that—but I would love to cost those publishing geniuses a few dollars, because, let’s face it, they’re not spending much on advertising my books. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had one hundred and five dollars in her savings account. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Goldman added up twenty-two cream puffs in his head “For that you need two more dollars and eighty cents.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

If he gave the money to X-Ray, at least he’d still have two hundred and fifty-seven dollars left. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Noodles took five of the dollars he had, five of our dollars, balled them up, and threw them at Black. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m prepared to loan you eight hundred dollars so you can be done with the whole homestead headache.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Nah, to me that was no different than some Wall Street executive who makes a million dollars by destroying some part of the world. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The hot chocolate costs a whole dollar more. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

His own people could not buy from Onofre at those prices: they were used to paying five dollars, at the most a sawbuck, for a pickup load of pinon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ten thousand lousy dollars! Ten grand—that’s what he makes in one stinking night off that casino operation. It’s a joke, son. It’s chump change to a rich maggot like that!” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

All I heard was the number—ten thousand dollars, cash. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Back outside, Henry whispered, “He said twenty dollars. Didn’t you hear him?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not worry what could happen in three weeks when she was supposed to take her two dollars and ten cents back to True Belle. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was up three hundred dollars, and there were still two tickets left, which would mean another hundred and thirty-five for him. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Tucker began, “I sort of thought that if there were any dollar bills in the cash register—” Harry burst out laughing. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He realizes that he has not asked the price, but without a thought he signs the receipt for two hundred dollars. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our tax dollars shouldn’t do this particular thing at all. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t go to an insurance company back then and say, Somebody did this damage, pay me a million dollars. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just want to look at it. Whatever it says, I wont ask for but ten dollars. You can have the rest. I just want to see it.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the check came, they each paid four dollars. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I know all about food stamps and dollar menus and layaway. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, I thought if you could see your way to let me have a hundred dollars a month, why, I could make out and maybe get my health back.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trepid nodded.“Eighteen thousand dollars,” he said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You guys won first place. Congratulations. You’ve got a thousand dollars to put toward the development of your app. It’s a step in the right direction.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I could have recovered the hash, cut it into grams and sold it piecemeal, and it would have been worth about five thousand dollars. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“By the time you get to your last dollar we’ll all be too old to think about war,” Maria Pincay said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Huh? That what you cost me five hundred dollars for?” he shouted. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She didn’t say a word, just took the dollar and walked out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The government still existed and the government owed the owner of that lottery ticket ten thousand dollars. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You better get the hundred dollars while Old Breen still got the window open.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It all added up to seventy or eighty dollars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She unzipped a hidden pocket in her muff and pulled out a multifolded dollar bill. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was he a small-time hustler jacking a girl who was carrying a lot of American dollars? Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I thought it was another dollar bill, and my lungs inflated. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I glance at the price tag on a ridiculous pink sweater and see that it’s on sale for ninety-nine dollars. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She gave him twenty dollars from her wallet, and then ten more. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Charlie jumps up and down like he’s just won a million dollars. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z