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"Pin money" in a Sentence (12 examples)
Meronyms: pocket change, small change, loose change
Near-synonym: petty cash
Damn you for a Son of a Bitch! Shall you wear such Things, and I want Pin-Money?
Good gracious! Lord bless me! only think! dear me! Mr. Darcy! Who would have thought it! And is it really true? Oh! my sweetest Lizzy! how rich and how great you will be! What pin money, what jewels, what carriages you will have!
[H]e practised economy in the matter of his wife's pin-money.
But these sums were but a small part of their income, were merely pin money for their wives and children.
Certain it is that out of the lavish pin-money which her father gave her as a free gift from time to time, she only doled out a meagre allowance to her husband, and although she had everything she wanted, M. le Marquis on his side had often less than twenty francs in his pocket.
Meronyms: pocket change, small change, loose change
Near-synonym: petty cash
"Money—yes; pin money: a couple of hundred thousand, perhaps. Not more." Washington's eyes blazed. "A couple of hundred thousand dollars! do you call that pin money?"
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"When did you leave Oklahoma? Where is Reddy McGill now? Why are you selling those impossible contraptions on the street?["] […] "A year ago," answered Kansas Bill systematically. "Putting up windmills in Arizona. For pin money to buy etceteras with.["]
Andrew pays all the farm expenses, but the housekeeping accounts fall to me. I make a fairish amount of pin money on my poultry and some of my preserves that I send to Boston, […]
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