How do you use the word "money" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "money" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "money": America is a lovely place to be, if you are here to earn money. Do you need me to give you some money?

Money Meaning

/ˈmʌni/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA generally accepted means of exchange.

nounA currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).

Sentence Examples

America is a lovely place to be, if you are here to earn money.

Do you need me to give you some money?

The state spends taxpayers’ money and should be held accountable.

CEFR Practice Quiz

She needed a lot of ____ to pay for her expensive college tuition.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

I need to save some ____ every month if I want to be able to afford the expensive overseas trip I am planning for next summer.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Latin Monēta Latin monēta Old French moneie Old French monoie Anglo-Norman muneiebor. Middle English moneye English money From Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie (“money”), from Latin monēta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was. In this sense, displaced native Old English feoh, whence English fee. Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azeri or Turkmen.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season." — 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

"At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country." — 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

"After his marriage, John made a progress through the country with his beautiful Elizabeth, and they purchased towns and villages and lands until he became master of nearly half Rügen, and a very considerable count in the country. His father, old James Dietrich, was made a noble-man, and his brothers and sisters gentlemen and ladies - for what cannot money do?" — 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 313:

"I grew up in Ballybeg, neither of my working-class parents came from money or went to university, so I was part of a working-class family, I assumed." — 2023 July 15, Megan Nolan, “‘I grew up on an “estate from hell” but I have no idea what class I am’: novelist Megan Nolan on the conundrum of identity”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

"But Schilling was great again today. As my younger son would no doubt say, he's so money he doesn't know he's money. Two more like him and never mind the World Series; the Red Sox would be ready for the Super Bowl." — 2011, Stewart O'Nan, Stephen King, Faithful:

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