Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: apiece
IPA transcription: [əp'is]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: each, to_each_one, for_each_one, from_each_one, apiece
    Meaning: to or from every one of two or more (considered individually); "they received $10 each"
Usage examples
  • "Hens at a dollar apiece?"
  • And a whole evening costs but a dime apiece.
  • "The girls must have a gentleman apiece," said the old gentleman.
  • If you start at this moment and work continuously, you'll have a little under a second apiece for each slave."
  • So he took a bottle from his pocket, and after they had had a glass apiece, he dropped a third in blots all over the plaster.
  • Now these ten cohorts had severally a thousand footmen, but the other thirteen cohorts had no more than six hundred footmen apiece, with a hundred and twenty horsemen.
  • In that office, where Andrew Carnegie was a messenger boy, the magnets in use to receive the signals sent with the aid of powerful nitric-acid batteries weighed as much as seventy-five pounds apiece.
  • 'Are we to pass a vote of thanks to all these vagabonds, male and female, and beg them to accept a hundred pounds, or so, apiece, as a trifling mark of our esteem, and some slight acknowledgment of their kindness to Oliver?'
  • And, egad, it was: seventeen pearls of a value of twelve hundred dollars each, fifteen worth scarcely less than nine hundred dollars apiece, and some twenty-seven or eight smaller ones that we held to be worth in the neighborhood of five hundred dollars each.
  • The Montessori weighted forms are excellent for training his muscular recognition of difference of weight, and an excellent way is to put various quantities of birdshot into half a dozen exactly similar little rubber balls that can be purchased at any toy store for two cents apiece.