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'yen' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'yen' with 18 example sentences.


yen noun

: a yearning for something or to do something

: the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen

yen verb

: have a desire for something or someone who is not present


  • The repairs for my bicycle cost me one thousand yen.
  • The minimum wage in Okinawa is 642 yen per hour.
  • A cup of coffee cost 200 yen in those days.
  • Their losses reached one million yen.
  • Suppose you had ten million yen, what would you do?
  • I want to change ten thousand yen to dollars.
  • A one million yen fine? That's nothing to me.
  • One ticket costs five hundred yen.
  • The price of bread rose by ten yen.
  • He earns half a million yen a month.
  • I owe him 100 yen.
  • Tom has three thousand yen in his pocket.
  • This vending machine takes only hundred-yen coins.
  • A Japanese businessman bought the artwork for 200 million yen.
  • She won ten million yen in the lottery.
  • Japan guaranteed a 2 billion yen aid package to developing countries.
  • He estimates that the new house will cost roughly thirty million yen.
  • The dollar dropped to 125 today from 126 yen yesterday.
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