How to Use peso in a Sentence

peso

noun
Definition of pesonext
  • Getting right to the point, the Swiss franc is all over the world, while the Argentine peso isn’t.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 19 June 2022
  • Buy a reloadable card to get around (for 15 pesos, or about 75 cents).
    — Kylie Madry, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
  • Over the next 26 days, the peso’s value dropped 26 percent.
    — New York Times, 6 Aug. 2022
  • In recent months, the peso has been floating closer to 20 to the U.S. dollar.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The Chilean peso gained 2.2% on the Monday after the first-round vote before flopping to a new 18-month low.
    — Sebastian Boyd, Bloomberg.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Following the Senate’s approval of the new law this past week, the peso dropped to a four-month low against the dollar.
    — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Salinas is worth $1.2 billion more than a year ago, helped by a stronger peso.
    — Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • But the dollar has still jumped sharply against the Mexican peso.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
  • My mom gave me money to go to Casa Muñoz, where one peso was worth two and a suit came with an extra pair of pants.
    — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024
  • But the parents could not spare the 20 pesos, or roughly $1, for a bucket shower.
    — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 8 July 2024
  • By the close of trading in Chile on Monday, the peso had fallen 3.5% against the U.S. dollar, hitting an all-time low.
    — Ryan Dube, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The Mexican peso edged up Wednesday for the sixth straight day, as reports emerged of an agreement on the trade pact.
    — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The group got their start in 2018 with close to nothing, as the value of the Argentine peso began to plummet once again.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2023
  • About 100 Mexican pesos or $6 can buy two weeks worth of access to the online world.
    — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Euro, peso, even an old lira—we’ll find a way to convert it!
    — Katie Barsotti, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Farmers earned as little as 100 pesos per day (less than $2).
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2019
  • In 2018, Argentina once again collapsed after a run on the peso and had to ask the IMF for an emergency bailout.
    — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • It is forced to let the peso float freely and moves to create an independent central bank.
    — David Luhnow, WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • The Argentine peso and the Brazilian real have weakened the most in emerging markets over the last year.
    — Matthew Bristow, Bloomberg.com, 31 July 2020
  • The rand erased four months worth of gains in just two weeks, while the Brazilian real, Colombian peso and the Chilean peso posted some of the sharpest declines among peers.
    — Fortune, 1 May 2022
  • No, that is not a typo: The Argentine peso is currently at an all-time high.
    — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The Philippine peso also plunged 12% over the same period.
    — Forbes Press Releases, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The peso has plummeted in value over the last couple of years, while MLC has no value beyond the island.
    — New York Times, 30 May 2022
  • The peso’s recovery stalled in the third quarter of this year, as the referendum drew closer.
    — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The central bank has spent billions of dollars to stabilize the peso as investors take money out of the country.
    — Patricia Garip and Juan Forero, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The stronger peso also helped boost Penaloza’s fortune in dollar terms.
    — Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • As expected, the price of the dollar rose another four Cuban pesos Friday and reached 314 pesos to the dollar.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The Russian ruble and the Mexican peso have dropped roughly 15%.
    — Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The country is reeling from the plunge in the peso, shrivelling reserves and a bitter recession.
    — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The plan, which critics say would politicize the judiciary and give even more power to the ruling Morena party, has spooked markets, with the peso registering its steepest weekly decline against the dollar since 2020.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024

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