PITTANCE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for PITTANCE, such as:
1. That Jurgis did not starve to death was due solely to the pittance the children brought him.
2. He could not live on the pittance he received as a pension and had to look for an additional source of revenue.
3. I fancy old Frankland allows her a pittance, but it cannot be more, for his own affairs are considerably involved.
4. Robert is very well in a way, to give up all the money he can earn to the family, and keep the barest pittance for himself.
2. He could not live on the pittance he received as a pension and had to look for an additional source of revenue.
3. I fancy old Frankland allows her a pittance, but it cannot be more, for his own affairs are considerably involved.
4. Robert is very well in a way, to give up all the money he can earn to the family, and keep the barest pittance for himself.
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Meanings and Examples of PITTANCE
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pittance
n. an inadequate payment
Classic Sentence:
1 Robert is very well in a way, to give up all the money he can earn to the family, and keep the barest pittance for himself.
2 Both Jonas and Marija might soon be earning no more than enough to pay their board, and besides that there were only the wages of Ona and the pittance of the little boy.
3 Jurgis walked home-with his pittance of pay in his pocket, heartbroken, overwhelmed.
4 That Jurgis did not starve to death was due solely to the pittance the children brought him.
5 She procured plain work; she plaited straw and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.
6 As it was, I lived ungazed at and unmolested, hardly thanked for the pittance of food and clothes which I gave, so much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men.
7 It is evident, therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to a very serious extent.
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8 I fancy old Frankland allows her a pittance, but it cannot be more, for his own affairs are considerably involved.
Example Sentence:
1 He could not live on the pittance he received as a pension and had to look for an additional source of revenue.