Sentence examples for pittance buys from inspiring English sources

The pensioner's pittance buys barely a loaf of bread a day.

My parents fell in love with the molas, and for a pittance bought more than they could ever use.

For a pittance he bought around 5,000 silk and paper scrolls from Wang and sent them to England.

The men rescue pedigreed animals sold for a pittance to buy drugs, animals used for fighting and bait, and colonies of feral cats that angry neighbors have tried to shoot or poison.

For a pittance, you can buy a Skype "phone number" that allows friends and family at home to dial a local number to call overseas.

That's a pittance, considering that Americans bought close to five billion pairs of socks last year, according to the United States Hosiery Association.

Prohibited by the German government from buying and selling art because he was Jewish, Mr. Stern was forced to sell hundreds of artworks for a pittance in order to buy exit permits for his family.

BUDAPEST — A racehorse bought for a pittance has turned into a national hero in crisis-stricken Hungary.

Art was stolen or bought for a pittance from Jewish collectors who were forced to sell under duress during the Third Reich.

As the war began and Nazi racial policies became ever more explicit, more modern and pre-modern works were seized or bought for a pittance from Jewish owners.

Some of the works may have been taken from or bought for a pittance from Jewish collectors who were forced to sell under duress.