Sentence examples for for pittance from inspiring English sources

In March 2018, she denounced the servitude of sisters who work for pittance to cook and clean for clerics.

Thousands of young Eritreans have been drafted into the army and then required to work indefinitely for the government for pittance wages in what is called "national service".

Thousands of young Eritreans have been drafted into the army and then required to work indefinitely for the government for pittance wages in what is called "national service". Each year, many young people risk their lives to escape.

These Jewish cabaret-music broadsides, sold for pittance on Vienna streets at the turn of the last century, were recovered from the city's library archive by Philip Bohlman, professor in the Department of Music and the College.

United Industrial sold a plastics injection molding business and a weather software outfit for a pittance.

Who could take seriously workers who subsidized their art by performing for pittances or for nothing?

A friend helped him smuggle out a few Toulouse-Lautrec posters, which he sold for pittances after he resettled in New York.

Sting was a tax clerk, a teacher or simply on the dole in the years he spent as a struggling singer and bass player, in bands doing gigs for pittances in the towns in the English north.

And, by indefinitely tying up major chunks of university budgets, the system condemns the much larger -- and rapidly growing -- number of non tenure track academics to working for pittances.

In his early 20s, he began traveling to London, where he would see similar objects for sale for a pittance at the Portobello Market, and he was hooked.

Who else would work for this man for the pittance he was paying?