Sentence examples for meager allowance from inspiring English sources

I spent my meager allowance on this record and ran home.

She extracted a meager allowance from her mother, took voice lessons, and for a time sang in a cabaret, then travelled to Rome to study art.

I walked out of my marriage as an unemployed woman with a meager allowance for my three children and a social security number.

They are prohibited from working, except for low-paying jobs cleaning the prison, and rely on a meager allowance of about $45 every ten days, according to Haaretz, a popular Israeli newspaper.

It was through this incredible book that I discovered Fugazi, Black Flag, Bad Brains, The Minutemen, The Replacements, Husker Du, and a slew of other life-shaping artists whose cassettes and CDs I purchased every week from Wherehouse Music or Go Boy Records with my meager allowance.

Weekends and Mondays are frequently mentioned as the days when enslaved people were given their most meager allowances.

Or so the very young can afford them with nothing more than change from the sofa, or their meager weekly allowance.

Just as she was beginning, two busloads of students from the notoriously radical rural teachers' college in nearby Ayotzinapa, who had come to town to raise money to supplement their meager 50 peso daily allowance, headed for Iguala's central square.

Registered as internally displaced persons, they are entitled to meager rations, some bedding and a monthly allowance, they said.

It is not unusual these days to see teenage boys roaming the malls in packs, just as girls do, chattering animatedly among themselves and spending their weekly allowances, along with their own meager earnings, on jeans, designer sunglasses, roomy logo T-shirts and loose-fitting khaki-tone cargo shorts, sneakers and square-toed leather shoes.

Clearly, it takes a certain kind of person to commit to 24 months of living in a mud hut, earning a meager monthly stipend and coming home to a paltry $6,075 "readjustment allowance".