Pittance in a sentence

A county that was once rich and self-sufficient now has to go cap in hand in search of pittance from the same people who despoil its riches and rendered it beggarly.

But he was found to have a strong case and was awarded $100,000 in addition to his costs, which reduced the three sisters’ individual inheritances to a pittance.

It's a pittance coming from the federal government today to support working families.

The Chandrayaan-3 mission to land in the South polar region of the moon cost $25 million, a pittance compared to U.S. space expenditures.

The government of Premier Doug Ford apparently believes all should be thankful for the one per cant pittance a year it has dictated.

In the end, after 20 years of litigations, it paid the state of Alaska the pittance of $507 million, that is one tenth of the cost of the damages caused by its oil spill.

Karnataka had to go to the Supreme Court to get drought relief, that too a pittance,” said the Deputy Chief Minister, adding that the Centre has to pay compensation for losses since September too.

Although coaxing viewers to pay even a pittance will always be problematic, options such as streaming sold-out gigs may work.

But compared to the value team owner Gail Miller has added to the Salt Lake City community, 'tis but a pittance.

Millions of farmers have not got even this pittance.

That might not seem like a penance to most, but in the corporate world this is a pittance for an executive that last year earned $4.4 million.

With young people tending to move to big cities to find work, Cinquefrondi found itself in need of residents and decided to put homes on the market for a pittance following lockdown in order to tempt new inhabitants.

Then, they’d “upgrade” their phones, paying only a pittance, or nothing at all, in-store and putting the rest of the purchase price on pay-by-month plans on the identity theft victims’ dime.

The police, I was told, barely scrounged out some pittance and left his family to ferret for the remainder.

By the time we clear it all, we will have a pittance in our hands.

Fifty dollars the Bloomington resident won his first go-round, a pittance compared to the handful of $1,000 winners he’s purchased from Miss Donuts & Bagel over the years.

He’d already tried finding a better life in Brazil, but gave up after three years doing factory jobs for a pittance.

He was paid a pittance and refused to take money originally, which is rare.

My take is the board was intentionally staffed with saboteurs to cause this crisis so the state could default, absorb the fund money and issue pittance payouts to the retirees.

On payday, the borrower gets to keep a much reduced portion of his pittance as a chunk plus an unholy interest payment goes to repay the lender.