Synonym: tanner. Similar words: experience, expedience, experienced, inexperience, pence, inexperienced, twopence, tuppence. Meaning: n. a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970.
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(1) Please give me six pennies for this sixpence.
(2) Wages were sixpence a week within living memory.
(3) You're fined sixpence for lip.
(4) Vermouth is threepence and brandy sixpence!
(5) This one had cost him sixpence, a lot out of his ten shillings a week wages, but it was worth it.
(6) We will make them work hard for sixpence a day, Though a shilling they deserve if they had their just pay.
(7) You bet him sixpence he could not eat a maggot and he promptly swallowed a live one and grabbed your tanner.
(8) It costs five shillings and sixpence to go round, and you need an awful lot of those to mend two acres of roof.
(9) Sam Fong had contributed three shillings sixpence to the cause.
(10) Anyway I was given sixpence, fourpence for the papers and tuppence for myself.
(11) Seven sixpence times three . Two and nine.
(12) But size, like sentiment, can turn a sixpence.
(13) Would you mind giving me the sixpence in copper?
(14) Messenger boys stealing to put on sixpence.
(15) It doesn't matter sixpence.
(16) In his literary creation of The Moon and Sixpence[sentencedict.com], Maugham received profound influence from Gauguin and his Tahitian pictures.
(17) Placing a silver sixpence in the bride's left shoe is a symbol of wealth.
(18) I gave him sixpence yesterday and advised him to save it.
(19) Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye.
(20) Here's a sixpence for you. Do you know why there are no apples on that tree?
(21) Time was you could buy a loaf of bread for sixpence.
(22) He sent a copy to Hall, with a request to sell it for sixpence at the exhibition.
(23) They could pay a shilling each to come in, and sixpence for refreshments.
(24) And Isle of Muck had inoculated his tenants against the smallpox at a cost of two shillings and sixpence per head.
(25) If he was really lucky, she would leave him sixpence to buy ice-cream from the lady with the tray.
(26) All this I learn from the official match programme, price sixpence and now something of a collector's item. Sentencedict.com
(27) After refreshment, tables were brought, and we all played cribbage, sixpence a game.
(28) I allowed the two pennies to fall against the sixpence in my pocket.
(29) The sherry went to my head and I was im- poverished for days by the loss of sixpence.
(30) The organ - player had been ordered to go away and given sixpence.
More similar words: experience, expedience, experienced, inexperience, pence, inexperienced, twopence, tuppence, penitence, dependence, interdependence, independence, independence day, declaration of independence, expend, expense, expenses, expensive, inexpensive, expenditure, spare no expense, at the expense of, expediency, variable expenses, intelligence agency, current expenditure, preponderance of evidence, pencil, government expenditures, penchant.