pocket money
Example Sentences
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Each summer, the teenage Hockney had cycled here from Bradford to earn pocket money on local farms.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Dan Bennette: I was unemployed for a little bit and looking for a little pocket money, so I saw during the first snowstorm that they were doing emergency shovelers and I just signed up online.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
If I didn’t work, I didn’t have pocket money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
Hayley Doyle’s love for thrifting began in high school, when she would take her pocket money to shop for secondhand T-shirts and jeans to curate her personal style.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025
No official bedtime, twice my pocket money, and for Julia’s eighteenth she went to Tanya’s Night Club in Worcester with her thousand and one friends.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
