Sentence examples for pittance from inspiring English sources

He never quite understood that I offered him just a pittance just to get rid of him to spend the last few minutes with Pelé." Pelé had to catch a plane, Toye went back to the motel to celebrate because his flight wasn't leaving until the next day.

The women were bought off with a pittance.

Homebuilt stalls, chock full of mandarins, oranges and fresh eggs selling for a pittance.

SBS paid the standard broadcast fee which was a "pittance", Ebeid said.

She had a pittance in the bank at the time, but a reckless dream of copying the old Pak Tea House in Lahore where radicals used to meet.

Olympic Airlines was forced to deliver newspapers for a pittance to keep the country's press barons happy.

Tied publicans earn a pittance, less than £15,000 a year in nearly half of all cases.

Even this pittance was beyond the means of many Haitians, and she would accept perhaps a bag of fruit instead.

But this is a pittance compared with the possible savings from avoiding expensive half-term breaks.

Hence a headline-grabbing growl on the first day of the conference from John Edmonds, general secretary of the GMB, Britain's fourth-biggest union, and this year's TUC president, denouncing any company boss awarding himself a huge rise while his workers get a pittance as a "greedy bastard".

The 500 foreign men who inhabit this Victorian edifice in west London are criminals and a drain on public funds; moreover, they are usually prepared to work for a pittance.