WAGE in a Sentence
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129 example sentences for WAGE, such as:
1. The meeting deadlocked over the wage issue.
2. The low wage had warmed the worker to strike.
3. The man will stay and run the mill for a wage.
4. The staff have agreed to a voluntary wage freeze.
5. And you won't get it for the wage you're offering.
2. The low wage had warmed the worker to strike.
3. The man will stay and run the mill for a wage.
4. The staff have agreed to a voluntary wage freeze.
5. And you won't get it for the wage you're offering.
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Meanings and Examples of WAGE
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wage
v. carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
n. something that remunerates
Classic Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1 He said, in effect, that the South had nothing with which to wage war but cotton and arrogance.
2 He needs some cash right away, so he wants to sell and stay and run it for me at a weekly wage.
3 The man will stay and run the mill for a wage.
4 In desperation she raised the wage she was offering but she was still refused.
5 And you won't get it for the wage you're offering.
6 In Chicago these latter were receiving, for the most part, eighteen and a half cents an hour, and the unions wished to make this the general wage for the next year.
7 That was the competitive wage system; and if Jurgis wanted to understand what Socialism was, it was there he had best begin.
8 Allowing five to a family, there are fifteen million families in this country; and at least ten million of these live separately, the domestic drudge being either the wife or a wage slave.
9 So long as we have wage slavery," answered Schliemann, "it matters not in the least how debasing and repulsive a task may be, it is easy to find people to perform it.
10 They think we earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it.
11 Next they start on other charges and other retreats in corresponsive spaces, and interlink circle with circle, and wage the armed phantom of battle.
12 These wage perpetual war with the Latin race; these do thou take to thy camp's alliance, and join with them in league.
13 We wage an ill-timed war, fellow-citizens, with a divine race, invincible, unbroken in battle, who brook not even when conquered to drop the sword.
14 He held the respectable office of general spy and informer in the establishment, for which volunteer service he received a present at Christmas, over and above his weekly wage.
15 Such were the wars waged by Alexander the Great, and by the Romans, and such are those which we see every day carried on by one potentate against another.
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1 The government exacts taxes from every wage earner above a certain level of income.
2 Women have yet to achieve wage or occupational parity in many fields.
3 Although unemployment rose last month, this is unlikely to dampen down wage demands.
4 Door - to - door salesmen usually have a low basic wage and earn most of their money on commission.
5 The low wage had warmed the worker to strike.
6 The two parties of labour and capital have bargained a new wage increase.
7 We've decided to negotiate with the employers about our wage claim.
8 I can hardly exist on the wage I'm getting; there is no money for luxuries.
9 Raising the minimum wage would ratchet up real incomes in general.
10 The union had sought a wage increase and a shorter work week.
11 The meeting deadlocked over the wage issue.
12 Employers and business groups contend that a higher minimum wage would saddle them with higher labor costs.
13 Labor unions continue to wage these dismal quarrels against management with almost uniformly disastrous results for the workers and their communities.
14 They work long hours in order to take home a fat wage packet.
15 The staff have agreed to a voluntary wage freeze.