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Use of pittance in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include pittance at the start of sentence, pittance at the end of sentence and pittance in the middle of sentence

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pittance at the end of sentence

  1. He only pays me a pittance.
  2. The musicians earn a pittance.
  3. Some were shot for a pittance.
  4. The crop was sold for a pittance.
  5. They work all day for a mere pittance.
  6. He works hard but he's paid a pittance.
  7. She raised three children on a pittance.
  8. The peasant laboured for a mere pittance.
  9. The widow must live on her slender pittance.
  10. He would merely do the job and get a pittance.
  11. Her secretaries work tirelessly for a pittance.
  12. You should be prepared to work very hard for a pittance.
  13. Often it can force frightened people in desperate need to take a pittance.
  14. They expect their staff to work hard, but the wages they pay are a pittance.
  15. In the poorest parts of the country, children work 12-hour days for a mere pittance.
  16. In the process, the landless poor, whose numbers grow every day, try to earn a pittance.
  17. They never were, and war in 1879 cut their value, many holders selling them off for a pittance.
  18. And in the factories themselves, the old and the very young worked from early to late and for a pittance.

pittance in the middle of sentence

  1. not a pittance of remorse.
  2. Smith's salary is a mere pittance compared with others in the NBA.
  3. She could barely survive on the pittance she received as a pension.
  4. She could barely survive on the pittance she received as a widow's pension.
  5. If she was so genteel, she wouldn't have come here for the pittance she's paid.
  6. No more than a pittance, really, and it made me glad to think about his disappointment.
  7. I could identify by sight just about 500 of its species -- a pittance of its total diversity.
  8. At the other end of the business, the actual drivers get paid a pittance out of what is left over.
  9. And no wonder new purchases of bond funds are a pittance compared with what people shovel into stock funds.
  10. Jack's only complaint was that the pittance he was paid hardly reflected the responsibility placed upon him.
  11. By earning a pittance as a contributor to learned periodicals, she managed from time to time to share rooms in London with friends.

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