Sentence examples for work for pennies from inspiring English sources

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They work for pennies.

We've got the country's best guy, Douglas Matthews (they all work for pennies, poor sods), lined up to do it.

The truth is that we are unwilling or unable to work for pennies, whereas illegal migrants are more than happy to do so.

Turner faces tough competition from content mills that rely on writers willing to work for pennies a post.

The biggest, cotton and cattle powerhouse J. G. Boswell Co., has moved many operations to Mexico, where farmhands work for pennies on the dollar, and to Arizona, where land is cheap.

Or consider Sydney-based artist Yiying Lu, who drew a digital image of a whale and uploaded it to iStockphoto, a site where artists and photographers sell their work for pennies per download.

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ALTHOUGH the 40 miles per gallon highway rating of the Ford Focus with the SFE (Super Fuel Economy) option seems alluring, the economics don't work for penny pinchers: it could take 13 years to get your money back.

"These people are literally working for pennies to make my dream come true for a month".

This leaves the men and women effectively working for pennies, while simultaneously ensuring they remain reliant on the people enslaving them.

But as the Triple Crown chase progressed in 2008, revelations surfaced about how he had misrepresented himself as a high-profile Wall Street executive when in fact he had worked for penny stock firms.

(The new order had also produced a permanently bitter and underemployed class of writers, who had meant to be Popes but were left to be merely beggars in the square outside, and they made their living working for penny-a-line pamphlets and cheap gossip tabloids, creating a constant mouse scream of malice that runs in counterpoint to Johnson's grave sonorities).

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