Sentence examples for without the purse from inspiring English sources

Brendan Joel Edgertonn), a high-school physics teacher, has been left penniless by his daughter's medical bills, and without the purse will have his home repossessed.

Mr. Merchant and Mr. Ivory inspire the kind of loyalty that allows them to make cheap but expensive-looking films without the controlling purse strings of Hollywood.

Which I probably did without the heavy purse... though perhaps not, given the size of the stuffing and mashed potato sandwich I had eaten the day before.

The prime minister's waning authority was highlighted as her health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and education secretary Justine Greening lobbied for an easing of austerity and senior Conservative MPs insisted public services would be in growing peril without an urgent loosening of the purse strings.

Without thinking, Officer Earls reached into the purse -- and stuck her hand on seven dirty heroin needles.

While out one Christmas night, a purse snatcher rushes past Hiro on a bike and soon appears, chasing after the purse thief, taking Hiro's bike without asking to pursue the culprit.

"Gimme the purse, schmuck".

"They hold the purse strings.

We took the purse upstairs.

But control the purse strings?

Congress holds the purse strings.