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Sentence Examples You will never be able to stop on a dime with the current in-line heel brake technology. That's a lot of loot for a pair of companies that have yet to make a dime in profits. The area was lousy with saloons, dime museums, oyster bars, minstrel theaters, and establishments promising women in varying states of undress. The play of the safeties needs to improve, particularly when the team goes to its nickel and dime packages. We will assume, for the purposes of the exercise, that the manager is a real sharpie and squeezes every last dime out of his company. Every time I had a chance and a dime for the roundtrip trolley car fare, I went to LaGuardia Airport. The trunk of an Asian elephant is so exquisitely prehensile that it can pick up a dime from a concrete floor. Critics and Monday morning quarterbacks are a dime a dozen, but it remains to be seen. His robust, commanding vocals coupled with solid lyrics, make this sing-jay stand out in an industry that produces artistes a dime a dozen. The jury felt differently, and awarded a judgment that amounted to just about every dime I had to my name. Pseudo-French brasseries are a dime a dozen in this town, of course, but great sushi restaurants are hard to find. Over the course of my post-secondary scholastic career my institutions have tried to squeeze me for every dime that they possibly could. The Fed Chairman, of course, turned his fiscal rectitude on a dime as soon as the Republicans regained control of the Treasury. I slid a dollar and a dime into the machine and received a nickel and a penny in change. This guy thinks we should get rid of the dime and replace it with an 18 cent piece. In India, nice children are a dime a dozen, and parents receive no special credit or praise for their children's behavior. Roughly speaking, such a feat is akin to picking up a solitary dime with a clumsy front-end loader. He charms the main character into trusting him, only to turn on a dime of deception for his own personal power trip. As the distant thunder rumbled and came closer, I thought of the next dime novel I had been planning to read, a ghost story. Ronald Reagan is now being proposed as a replacement on the US dime or 10 cent piece for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the defeater of the Axis. Show More Sentences Go back two centuries ago and remember how dime novels and penny dreadfuls were no sooner evoked than evicted from church life. Instead of replacing the popular dime with another coin, it's also possible to see whether the addition of a fifth coin would help. He stops speaking to May and refuses to contribute a dime to her education. The exact economics may be beyond me, but I suspect neither one of us will be saving a dime on this tax cut. He figured that he might as well live till the whole sham is over, this way he won't have to spend a dime of his new found, hard earned money. Without a dime of government money we are turning thousands of people per month into independent homeowners. Even if you never spend a dime of the reserve, the tax savings on your contributions ensure you'll be no worse off than if you hadn't enrolled. Handsome, dedicated and dangerous young men were a dime a dozen in Ireland, and his frequently dismissive treatment of women didn't help. Then, while planning his career, he decided upon fitness training because engineers were a dime a dozen. I believe that he is one of the senior administration officials who dropped the dime on her. He would eventually hit the 619 out of no where, then dropped the dime on him for the pinfall victory. There's just no reason for people to really get off the dime and start doing heavy business spending just now. There is something really depressing, however, about the idea of having to go into the Pacific Centre for a dime bag. We get to the container just as a man on a bench is extracting drugs from a dime bag with a syringe. Caitlin glanced to Lucas oddly, and then pulled a small dime bag of marijuana from her pocket, wiggling it slightly in the air. This isn't just a situation where a player got caught with half a joint and a dime bag. With a title as tempting as this, our Mary Jane journey should have been a sizable dime bag better. His determination to spice up his story makes it sometimes read like a dime novel about a drink-crazed mafia don. Then I began reading my ghost story dime novel, about the young American woman who went to Europe to write a book. The old dime novel was not palmed off as literature upon an unsuspecting public as the new dime novel is. Show More Sentences She is as old as Eve, and as current as today's movies, comic books and dime novels. Promoted through advertisements, dime novels, and photographs, the Indian princess was young and beautiful. Anyway, they had some great postcards made from posters for old horror movies and dime novels. He began with a single dime store in 1945 and did not open his second store for seven years. Inside, there are trinkets done up to look ancient, but were most likely purchased on a moment's notice at a nearby dime store. She seems to accept the seductive power of merchandise, whether it is for sale at the dime store or installed in galleries and museums. He took over a dime store in Woolaston, MA in 1925, and started selling his own brand of ice cream. The chain, they decided, would exude the mild pretension of a low-end department store rather than the folksiness of a high-end dime store. Speaking of the good old days, what ever happened to those old radio shows you used to find on tape at every dime store? If we do seal our houses up, mightn't we run the risk of suffocating like a forgotten dime store goldfish? But there is a profound phoniness to this Latin lover that's as noticeable as the dime store toupee he sports. Indignance doesn't give back, remaining as hollow as dime store chocolate rabbits. Nor can any be compelled to pay even a dime of dues or fees for political activities with which he or she disagrees. He drops a dime on his friend in a heartbeat, since he still wanted the money. She's going to drop a dime on him to the employer, and he's going to lose his job. The charm of Utah lies in its vast wilderness, the friendliness of its people, and the quirkiness of its small-town diners and dime stores. Her icy gaze and menacing snarl turn on a dime to sparkling warmth and dazzling smile. People are being milked for every last dime and scriptures are quoted out of context. I dropped a dime into a slot in the coffee machine located just outside my journalistic office. The conservative movement's think tanks, newspapers, and little magazines are filled with junketeers who have traveled the world on his dime. Show More Sentences These creatures glow red, blue, yellow and green like dime store light-up yo-yos. And kinglets are one of the smallest songbirds, weighing in at around 6 or 7 grams, or the same weight as an American nickel and a dime. He ran an ad that totally distorted Governor Bush's record on taxes, claiming he saved not a single dime or single red cent for Social Security. Being victims of their own success, many dime novels and yellowbacks are fragile or in poor repair. I supposed it was good that he'd paid because I only had a loonie and a dime in my pocket. If they weren't so hard to come by, they'd be a dime a dozen. If the marriage was invalid, Grayson does not have to pay out a dime in alimony as opposed to a divorce. Some small areas the size of a dime can be tufted in with new yarns. The last thing I want to do is put another taxpayer dime into this money pit. Antoine himself had recently been arrested on a six-year-old warrant for a dime bag of weed. To the musicians, the napster co-founders were outright thieves, providing an avenue to steal music without paying a dime for it. At age 14, he enrolled in the City College of New York where he continued writing dime novels and pulp fiction which enabled him to support himself during college. God help us, it all took place on our taxpayer dime, all in the name of defending the Land of the Free and the Home of the brave. What the cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller has to do with twentieth century hard-boiled detective fiction and nineteenth-century dime novels is beyond me. You have to be able to turn on a dime when something's not working. I don't know what happened first, the insult or the swing, but months of training now meant that I could spin on a dime and hit a ball across an ocean if I had to. Drop in your 20 sack of seasoned salt, followed by your dime bag of black pepper. The lack of hope and happiness is far more unsettling than the dime store effects, and anyone who has seen it can attest to the movie being more bleak than bold. Bauer wheels the combat craft on a dime, pointing the bow to the shore. She fashioned a heat table from old dime store three-inch deep storage bins, which she lined with a shower curtain, sand and vermiculite and a heat cable. Show More Sentences In the competition for excess, it is also necessary for a candidate's handlers to denude every dime store within a hundred miles of its stock of red, white and blue balloons. The characters talk like dime store philosophers after a three drink buzz. Despite its overall lack of narrative thrust and a tendency to engage in dime store Freudian psychologizing it won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year. Frankly I don't give a whoop about Sony losing a dime from piracy and think they have ruined what is a great hardware product with absolutely terrible software. How exactly does dropping the dime on other Americans qualify as service? They're scared to death that if anybody finds out that they dropped the dime on their cousin, or a gang member, or a drug dealer, they're going to die. The vast majority of dot-coms will never see a dime of profits. After finding the serious electronic wizardry that's available to be far too expensive, he came across journal articles describing equipment that costs about a dime. The hub deal especially contrasts with the down-and-dirty business of having to bet a billion dollars on a vehicle program that may never produce a dime of profits. For starters, you must eliminate excess, so, if you wished, you could decamp on a dime. Even if they didn't reveal your identities up front, once the substance of the complaint becomes clear, he is bound to know who dropped the dime on him. We also wish to thank the kindred spirit who dropped the dime on him. I wish people would understand that, and I wish this jury would really get off the dime and start deliberating a little more conscientiously and get this thing finished with. Apparently wracked with indecision, the Supreme Judicial Court needs to get off the dime and render a verdict in same-sex marriage in the commonwealth. I pulled out a dime bag filled with cocaine from an inside pocket. After digging around between the couch cushions for a while, he discovered that the dime bag he'd stashed there a few weeks before had gone missing somewhere. Intellectual shut-ins are a dime a dozen these days, and they all stink just as bad as the next one. When the old, toothless man in the parking lot approaches me with outstretched hands and asks for a dime or a cigarette or snack, I look into his eyes. Between 1840 and 1890, publishers began printing and distributing inexpensive fiction variously called dime novels, story papers, or cheap libraries. It works if you heat up the nickel, if you save up the dime, and on a blackballer I wasted my prime. Show More Sentences In for a dime, in for a dollar, he thought crazily, and said what he had to say in a voice he forced to stay level and calm. The loud rinky-dink music and the wafting blue cigar smoke made the scene a dime novel cover. It seems like a great offer, but they will just nickel and dime you until you've spent more than retail anyway. Chicago was home to the reinvention of the harmonica from tiny dime store toy to amplified and distorted Mississippi sax. Instead, the longest-running chat show in the world will be back to what it does best, conducting live love-ins with celebrities on our dime. But she learns to understand, write, and read words and she enjoys trips to the dime store to buy small special things. Frank Winfield Woolworth became a retail giant in the late 1800s by pioneering the five and dime store concept. It was started as a five and dime store in New York by one Frank Winfield Woolworth. Adding to Dan's woes, 14-year-old William runs away from home to join the posse, hoping for an adventure like in the dime store novels. Eight of the nine who got damages were not worth a dime, and all but six of those who failed to sustain their suits were worthless. He was in the back for a few minutes. Turned out he was dropping a dime on Ralph. Popular themes for dime novels included stories of the Wild West, the American Revolution, Indians, and Pirates. We've turned on the dime in terms of our expectation for them. I propose enacting a spondulix to declare the one dime sufficient to be gotten off. Was it because I had extinguished any dream of Max someday schussing down a mountain or cutting across a skating rink and stopping on a dime? Luncheon meats that meet the fat cut-offs are a dime a dozen. This vase is not worth a dime. Why did you pay so much for it? Somebody loan me a dime, I need to call my old time used to be. If you bring me a glass of sweet, iced tea, I will give you a Yankee dime. Each team suspends a cup from a spring and drops dimes in the cup, measuring the length of the spring each time another dime is dropped in the cup. Show More Sentences He flung his dime at a newsboy, got his Express, propped his back against the truck, and was at once rapt in the account of his Waterloo, as expanded by the ingenious press. I bought my new ride from some nickel and dime used-car salesman. The two of them chain-smoked a dime bag's worth of marijuana. The effect of the frontier upon popular culture was enormous, in dime novels, Wild West shows, and, after 1910, Western movies set on the frontier. Dime was an incredible musician and person who influenced thousands of guitarists and pushed guitar shredding to a higher degree for many years. First, take the fashion model angularity of Nicole Mourier and Mia Dime, and transplant them to the Berlin underground art scene. Around the same time, Viennese boho Mia Dime wandered into town with thoughts of forming an all-girl band. Working at the Five and Dime, she met her Charlie on a blind date that led to her becoming a war bride. Examples from Classical Literature Why do you stand there starin' at me as if I was some sort of dime show curiosity? Every dime weighs something in the scale of their monied calculations, and every cent must be placed in the treasury. The sideshow got a dime of hers before the big show started and again after it ended. When I reached this place I learned that I was wrong and that it wasn't a dime novel after all. Yes, we shopped at a dime store immediately adjacent, or in the same shopping center as the driver's license bureau. The small profit made by the government on every penny, nickel, or dime issued, is a seigniorage charge. I won't be back for dinner, so you can put in your time reading my dime Novels. I have the sort of paper you buy at the dime store to wrap packages, about 36 inches long, coming in a roll. The narration is stilted, better suited for the dime novels of the Nineteenth Century. It peen a long dime since ve med up py each udder, ain'd it? All my crate iteas will gome to me now for some dime in the night. Say, what sort of a dime novel have you been reading lately? If you want that story, you can go and buy yourself a dime novel. These men usually don a costume like that of the hero of a dime novel. The moral standards of the dime novel are always of the highest. Why, just to contemplate it was better than reading a dime novel! I can borrow a dime from the barber, an' I got enough junk to hock for a blowout. Next dime I see Bimi dere was a pistol in my belt, und he touch it once, and I open de breech to show him it was loaded. He handed over a dime with an upwelling feeling of pity in his heart. All manner of discs had to be tried, some smaller and thinner than a dime and others of steel boiler-plate as heavy as the shield of Achilles. Show More Sentences No, F-l-x, we would not call Treasure Island or the Pilgrim's Progress dime novels. I listened to his detailed report and it seemed more like a dime novel than an historical fact. New York publishers had introduced the dime novel, a lurid form that needed larger-than-life heroes. Pulps were the successor to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short fiction magazines of the 19th century. She dotes on 'The Duchess,' and puts her last dime into Braddon. A dollar seems less to a Californian than a dime to an easterner. And, let's not forget Calamity Jane, the cross-dressing, tough-talking, sharp-shooting heroine of many a dime novel and a completely berserk film starring Doris Day. Kraft spent his puny store of coin at the bar and then gave Judkins and me such an appealing look that we went down to the last dime we had in toasting our guest. They were mostly beadle's Dime Novels, which had a great sale at the time. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of dime? Words that rhyme with dime What is the past tense of dime? What is the plural of dime? What is the adjective for dime? What is the noun for dime? Translations for dime Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Dima dim diluvium diluvian diluvial dilutive dime a dozen dimenhydrinate dimension dimensional dimensional analysis dimensionality 4-letter Words Starting With d di dim