How to Use pocket money in a Sentence

pocket money

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  • The earnings helped pay for his textbooks and gave him pocket money to start riding the bus to school.
    — Sonia Paul, Wired, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Two years ago, Austin and his brothers Collin, 13, and Ryan, 11, were looking for a way to make some pocket money.
    — Errol Barnett, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2019
  • But the average post-noms boost over the past decade has been less than half as much — pocket money for the majors.
    — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Hull told me that her son got his first chain saw at age 9 and had cut firewood for pocket money all through high school.
    — Lauren Smiley, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020
  • When Cindy still lived here, she and Henríquez sold smoothies and soda to the fans, enough for pocket money.
    — Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, 21 June 2018
  • For those wanting to get some extra pocket money, try biking to work and get paid to do it.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
  • In fact, Brooklyn even held a job at a local café in order to earn pocket money.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2023
  • All that extra money gives Musk some more pocket money to spend on his jets.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 1 May 2023
  • But having him on the album is more than just a kind gesture by an aunt who wants to give her nephew a job and some pocket money.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 19 Dec. 2020
  • The kids of Stranger Things might be some of the youngest television stars on the planet, but that doesn’t mean they are being paid pocket money for their roles.
    — Amy De Klerk, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The housing, pocket money and cell phones are paid for through the federal contract.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • But sometimes the promise of a little pocket money doesn’t hurt.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 June 2017
  • The Taliban give each soldier the equivalent of 80 dollars, pocket money for the trip home.
    — NBC News, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Founded in 2016, Thunes – the name is French for pocket money – is on a mission to connect up the global economy.
    — David Prosser, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • You might be tempted to pick up the tab at a restaurant, donate to someone's cause or otherwise spend your pocket money.
    — oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2020
  • His father was a doctor who had his own clinic on the island of Shikoku, which meant that Q never wanted for pocket money.
    — Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Mahmoud went to school but still helps his uncle on Saturdays for pocket money.
    — Rania Abouzeid, National Geographic, 20 June 2019
  • In a good year, Baker caught as many as 200 red foxes and gray foxes — not bad pocket money, even if not exactly enough to make a living.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
  • One of them happened to be a scout for the agency Models 1, who snapped him up and started booking him jobs (the pocket money, of course, was better in fashion than food service).
    — Monica Kim, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Faced with poverty at home, the cousins say the assaults began when West and Lucas offered them pocket money to do yard work or clean up around the Mississippi church and school.
    — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 July 2021
  • The film’s challenging, somewhat flawed second half transforms Charley from working-class kid with a father, a semi-stable life and some pocket money to a young man on the edge of the abyss.
    — Michael Phillips, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The film’s challenging, somewhat flawed second half transforms Charley from working-class kid with a father, a semi-stable life and some pocket money to a young man, on the edge of the abyss.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Still, Peck said Alkozay was offered a hotel but preferred to stay with her friend’s mother, and was given some emergency funds for food and pocket money.
    — Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2021
  • About half of them, including Thompson, receive a monthly stipend of $750 as pocket money with no strings attached.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
  • For most kids, running a lemonade stand just means earning a little extra pocket money.
    — Mikala Kane, courant.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • On some occasions, the Taliban even gave Afghan soldiers and policemen, many of whom have been unpaid for months, pocket money for a safe journey home.
    — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 20 June 2021
  • Currently, each Afghan evacuee is slated to receive $1,225 to help with rent, furniture and food and provide a small amount of pocket money.
    — Aamer Madhani, ajc, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Fail to put money back into the team or re-sign homegrown stars, but instead pocket money received from revenue sharing over the years, until that pot dries up.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2021
  • My mom had taken my older brother and me to the local Woolworth’s store to do some Christmas shopping, and, for the first time, I was given some pocket money to buy presents for my family.
    — Richard Hine, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The only way a migrant can legally enter Chile is as a tourist — with hotel reservations, pocket money and a return ticket.
    — Jacqueline Charles, miamiherald, 1 Mar. 2018

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