Sentence examples for earn change from inspiring English sources

He'd also done it to earn change as a boy — on Brooklyn Avenue in Boyle Heights, around Olvera Street downtown.

He'd earn pocket change in Times Square by tap dancing and jitterbugging on the street.

One of the songs he sings these days to earn some change is "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)," in which Woody Guthrie laments the plight of a group of Mexican farm workers who died in a plane crash while being deported in 1948.

Many people think that minimum wage earners are mostly teenagers working part-time jobs to earn pocket change for summer vacation.

But we've also seen a qualitative shift away from good paying jobs with benefits to McJobs and the "gig" economy where workers earn "chump change".

I wasn't there to raise money or earn pocket change with a bad acoustic cover of a Dave Matthews song; I was just a graduate with two degrees, looking for a job.

They have led and earned the change that has come to Libya.

When Robert started trafficking drugs, his Mexican colleagues were a handful of growers and smugglers earning chump change.

They stay in a dump in Midtown, and the boy earns small change dancing for strangers in Times Square.

And he said there was "room to work together" on creating a tax system in which income is taxed only in the country where it is earned, a change long sought by large American companies that operate around the world.

He had earned small change making a softcore porn film, The Party at Kitty and Stud's, which resurfaced predictably as The Italian Stallion (Rocky's nickname) once he became successful.