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| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : uh-pees |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈpis |
Definition of apiece
Origin :- 1550s, a contraction of a pece (mid-15c.), originally of coins, objects for sale, etc. (see a (2) + piece (n.)).
- adv each
- There's no sense to it, any way,—sixteen sheep stood him in two dollars apiece.
- Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy
- I'll tell you what, I'll give you fifty cents apiece for the lot!
- Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
- Doyle or Galvin would charge ten dollars apiece for such in Boston.
- Extract from : « Aztec Land » by Maturin M. Ballou
- The first three prize-winners would be worth a clear 450 apiece.
- Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.
- Come, come, Susan Jane; there is two apiece, an' six fur company!
- Extract from : « Janet of the Dunes » by Harriet T. Comstock
- Some were so big and heavy that they weighed five or six pounds apiece.
- Extract from : « Home Life in Colonial Days » by Alice Morse Earle
- Them flags is worth a quarter apiece, and you'll break the handle.
- Extract from : « The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters » by Charles Henry Lerrigo
- That he is; but the fish came to about that; the tautog are worth a quarter apiece.
- Extract from : « Little By Little » by William Taylor Adams
- Pickled the tongues an' sold 'em for three cents apiece, by gum.
- Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
- We had but a shot or two apiece to the musket, they tell me.
- Extract from : « John Splendid » by Neil Munro
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