purse

Example Sentences

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Simpson says staff were also told they would be given forms to apply for their pay through the insolvency service, which meant it would be "paid by the public purse".

From BBC

She’d stood over him the entire time, her eyes narrowed and mouth pursed into a thin line, and the kid had practically shrunk five inches by the time it was all over.

From Literature

But factors such as the flagging property market, deflation and youth unemployment have left consumers tightening their purse strings.

From Barron's

Insp Alan King, of Police Scotland, said the vandalism had caused great expense to the "public purse" while councils were "bearing what are harsh economic times".

From BBC

While this purse string model applies broadly, it does not explain division in species with especially large embryonic cells, including sharks, platypus, birds and reptiles.

From Science Daily