How to Use rand in a Sentence

rand

noun
  • Stocks slumped to a six-year low, bonds fell and the rand weakened.
    — Michael Cohen, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • Stocks and the local currency, the rand, were buoyed by the news.
    — Keith B. Richburg, Washington Post, 19 June 2024
  • The rand has slumped nearly 15% against the dollar this year.
    — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2018
  • Extra points for the approach-shoe-style toe rand—great for scrambles.
    — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 14 May 2015
  • The rand strengthened as much as 1% against the dollar on the result.
    — Paige Bruton, semafor.com, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The rand Thursday reached its highest point in nearly three years.
    — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The rand and the real both declined more than 9% against the dollar over the last three months.
    — Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 28 June 2022
  • Gins that cost more than 225 rand a bottle account for just 6% of sales.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The paper is a thick, slippery plastic that mimics the texture of the rand.
    — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 6 June 2019
  • The exchange mechanism would not be based on South African rands.
    — Thomas Wolfgang Thurner, Quartz Africa, 11 June 2019
  • The rand weakened, with traders blaming uncertainty caused by the lack of a clear timetable.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Side of that, the rubber rand has protected the boot, and the leather build seems bulletproof.
    — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 17 Jan. 2023
  • At the start of April the rand was up more than 8% year to date and the real was up more than 17%.
    — Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 28 June 2022
  • Foreign buyers have been net sellers of the nation’s stocks and the rand has plunged 11%.
    — Monique Vanek, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2023
  • That means the rand, considered an emerging market proxy, could end the day as a winner or loser.
    — Colleen Goko, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The secret sauce of The Challenge is bringing back the same people over rand over.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the black leather upper is complemented by a black suede mud guard that wraps around the entire shoe just over top the rand.
    — New Atlas, 3 Feb. 2025
  • South Africa’s rand is down nearly 13%, while the Chilean peso is off nearly 8%.
    — Ira Iosebashvili, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
  • In the wake of the announcement, the rand, South Africa’s currency, surged in value.
    — Jennie Neufeld, Vox, 29 Aug. 2018
  • The South African rand dropped the most among major emerging-market currencies.
    — Ruth Carson, Bloomberg, 8 Mar. 2026
  • In the last few years, a number of blockbusters have settled into South Africa to take advantage of the rand and the tax breaks.
    — Meredith Carey, CNT, 23 Sep. 2017
  • The shoe also features a Gore-Tex and micro ripstop upper, full grain leather rand and mudguard, and a lock down lace.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The crisis has added to the gloom surrounding South African assets, pushing the rand lower and sending stocks to six-month lows.
    — Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
  • These are life-changing sums for Ms Qangiso, a grandmother whose warehouse job pays just 5,000 rand a month.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2020
  • In the first, the conflict lasts another two months, oil prices average close to $100 a barrel, and the rand weakens by about 5%.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • In the first, the conflict lasts another two months, oil prices average close to $100 a barrel, and the rand weakens by about 5%.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The rand erased four months worth of gains in just two weeks, while the Brazilian real, Colombian peso and the Chilean peso posted some of the sharpest declines among peers.
    — Fortune, 1 May 2022
  • Market reaction was muted shortly after the judgment, with the rand currency, the barometer of investor confidence, little changed.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 8 May 2026
  • South Africa’s rand weakened and was nearly 1% down from its close on Friday after the weekend setback further jeopardized an already fragile two-week ceasefire.
    — semafor.com, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The South African rand was little moved on Thursday after the release of higher-than-expected domestic producer inflation figures.
    — Sfundo Parakozov, Reuters, 28 Aug. 2025

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