Examples of 'pittance' in a sentence
Meaning of "pittance"
pittance (noun): Pittance is a noun that refers to a very small or inadequate amount of money or income. It is often used to describe a meager salary, allowance, or payment that is barely enough to cover basic needs or expenses
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- A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.
- A meagre allowance of money or wages.
- A small amount.
How to use "pittance" in a sentence
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That two pittance engineer is bent on ruining us.
His father bought them for a pittance.
Pittance compared with what we ought to be receiving.
But this meager pittance is hardly enough.
A pittance for humanity to pay to know peace.
This would be a mere pittance compared to that.
They sold it to the colonists for a pittance.
And a small pittance of savings in the bank.
The little idiot sold it to me for a pittance.
A pittance to protect you from evil.
Our endowment has shriveled to a mere pittance.
They pay you a pittance because you are desperate.
She is then given an apartment and a pittance.
With the pittance you gave me.
I have spent my life working for a pittance.
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A pittance compared to the secret inside.
Fighting like that over a mere pittance.
And all for a pittance from the council.
A pittance compared to the great debt that he owed.
We will take pittance and do a mid.
A pittance which he built into an empire.
Surely it would be a pittance in the grand scheme of things.
Pittance from years of hard labor.
What would be a pittance to you is beyond our means.
You keep taking jobs that pay a pittance.
We pay them a pittance to stand in the front line.
I am afraid our endowment has shriveled to a mere pittance.
It was a pittance compared to disciples from the great powers.
I do not need to murder my dearest friend for a pittance.
We do not accept pittance out here.
They take advantage of people who are making a pittance.
With this pittance its never enough for anything.
You are drowning in money and you pay us pittance.
This pittance means nothing to me.
We can not leave it at a pathetic pittance.
A pittance and some laundry.
A year can scarcely be called a pittance.
My pittance of a salary does not allow me to deviate from your rules.
I have been saving the leftover pittance.
Spending his pittance on what he considered to be works of great art.
You have come this far because of my pittance.
Offer him a pittance to go his way as do the other clans.
He worked from morning till night for a pittance.
For the pittance he gave us.
The judiciary was also paid a pittance.
A pittance and a government pension.
They work very hard for a mere pittance.
Pittance in comparison with others.
I will sell it to you for a pittance.
That is a pittance for them.
