| 1. | pounds a week for purely nominal services. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | "I think he has only been its nominal head for many years," said Anne. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 3. | It was no nominal meal that we were going to make, but a vigorous reality. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | Oh, that's only nominal The whale himself has never figured in any grand imposing way. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 5. | Its nominal price was a good deal lower than at present. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 6. | It is their real price money is their nominal price only. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 7. | "Perhaps it was injudicious," he said mildly, "but the sum was so merely nominal that I bought tickets to the theater to-night. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 8. | above the same nominal sum of the gold and silver currency of the country. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 9. | Gold rose in its nominal value, or in the quantity of silver which was given for it. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |