pittance in a sentence
pronunciation: [ [ 'pitəns ] ]
Examples
- "It's a pittance,"
- That may seem rich, but in newspaper terms it is a pittance.
- That's a pittance compared with its 220, 000 workers worldwide.
- The tax itself is a pittance, he said.
- Their livestock and crops fetch an ever-shrinking pittance in the market.
- They were given a pittance to build new houses.
- But that is a pittance compared with what many thought would be proposed.
- Today, the land Morande bought for a pittance is unaffordable for most.
- Men are not ready to work for a pittance.
- Others are sold for a pittance to arm criminals in neighboring South Africa.