How to Use rial in a Sentence

rial

noun
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  • Since the beginning of the year, the rial has lost nearly one-third of its value.
    — Sean Savage, Jewish Journal, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The rial is under heavy pressure from the US sanctions threat.
    — Andrew Torchia, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2018
  • The family raised some funds but a crash in the value of the Iranian rial slashed that amount.
    — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2019
  • The country may find fewer buyers for its oil exports, and the rial has plunged.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 May 2018
  • The rial is now down by sixty per cent, and real-estate prices in Tehran have more than doubled.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 29 May 2014
  • In 2015, the rial traded at just over thirty thousand rials to the dollar.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Iran’s rial has dropped against the US dollar in recent days in a sign of concern about Trump’s policy.
    — Reuters Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The economy has shrunk, while the Iranian rial has lost 80% of its value against the dollar.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Masks range from the equivalent of 10 U.S. cents to $3, which can be a lot, as the Iranian rial has fallen to historic lows against the dollar.
    — Washington Post, 5 July 2020
  • The country's currency, the rial, has plummeted in value against the U.S. dollar over the past year.
    — NBC News, 28 Oct. 2020
  • In less than a year, the rial, Iran’s currency, has declined by 50 percent in value against the dollar.
    — Thomas Erdbrink, New York Times, 25 June 2018
  • The country’s currency, the rial, has lost a third of its value on the black market since September.
    — The Economist, 21 Apr. 2018
  • The currency, the rial, has lost more than half its value since January in a historic plunge against the U.S. dollar.
    — Asa Fitch, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2018
  • To access the rials, Iran wanted to convert them briefly into dollars and then Euros.
    — Maegan Vazquez, CNN, 6 June 2018
  • The dive in the Iran's currency, the rial, caused a panic among Iranians as the government sought to keep things under control.
    — Sean Savage, Jewish Journal, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Iran’s currency, the rial, lost some 5 percent of its value against the US dollar Monday.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The move is seen as part of Tehran’s efforts to control the currency market after the rial hit an all-time low earlier this month.
    — Amir Vahdat, The Seattle Times, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The move is seen as part of Tehran's efforts to control the currency market after the rial hit an all-time low earlier this month.
    — Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Iran has lost nearly 90% of its oil exports, a key source of revenue; the value of the rial has plummeted, and the banking sector is under stress.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The sanctions are expected to compound Iran’s economic woes and have driven the currency, the rial, to record lows against the dollar.
    — Ramin Mostaghim, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
  • The rial has been plummeting since 2018 when the US exited the nuclear deal and reimposed tough sanctions on Iran and its oil exports.
    — Arsalan Shahla, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Iran’s national currency, the rial, has sharply plunged from the time of the 2015 nuclear accord while daily staples have risen in price.
    — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
  • One of the few indicators of change visible to all, Iran’s national currency, the rial, has not moved since the lifting of the sanctions.
    — Thomas Erdbrink, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2016
  • In Washington, the fall of the rial is widely seen as a consequence of U.S. sanctions and a sign of economic collapse that could bring down the Iranian regime.
    — Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Iran’s currency, the rial, dropped sharply since last week in reaction to a deadlock in the nuclear talks, trading around an all-time low level.
    — Aresu Eqbali, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Iran’s currency, the rial, has lost two-thirds of its value in the last six months, much of it after the United States formally withdrew from the nuclear agreement in May.
    — Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Since the New Year’s protests, the pressure on the two sides has only increased, with the economy dragging and the national currency, the rial, falling sharply in value against the dollar and the euro.
    — Thomas Erdbrink, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The rial has lost more than 30% of its value to the dollar since June as sweeping U.S. sanctions on Iran continue to crush its ability to sell oil globally.
    — Bloomberg.com, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Forwards markets, where investors bet on the future value of currencies, suggest the Omani rial, which the government keeps pegged against the dollar, could drop more than 5% against the greenback in the next 12 months.
    — Avantika Chilkoti, WSJ, 1 May 2020
  • The Iranian rial is plunging in value to a record low, causing the government to ban the import of more than 1,300 products, from household appliances to shoes.
    — Carol Morello, Washington Post, 26 June 2018

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