pittance

How To Use pittance In A Sentence

• It's a sweet deal for General Motors, which snags 2% of world market share for a pittance.
• Moreover it seems to me atrocious that we who insist on seven millions of Catholics supporting a church they call heretical, should dare to talk of our scruples (conscientious scruples forsooth!) about assisting with a poor pittance of very insufficient charity their 'damnable idolatry.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• With a pittance of a salary, how could they be enthused to become proactive people?
• In yet another print, he grovels avariciously for a pittance at the feet of Prime Minister Pitt as the latter grinds John Bull through a mincing machine to produce gold coins.
• For the pittance they're paid, adjunct profs at our colleges might as well be sweatshop workers.
• I could identify by sight just about 500 of its species -- a pittance of its total diversity.
• Of course, in its new incarnation, the book is no longer "real" pulp - printed on the cheapest paper, sold for a pittance - but a kind of canonised and reified pulp, beautifully produced and, at Rs. 195, priced the same as an average paperback. The Middle Stage
• Savers see their interest reduced to a pittance. The Sun
• She could barely survive on the pittance she received as a widow's pension.
• The marital crisis coincides with a miners' strike in which the men are forced to live off a pittance while blacklegs take over their jobs.