purse

You understandably want to loosen the purse strings — a little or a lot — so you can spend more time traveling with friends and living the life that you have spent years working toward.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

It says: "Illegal waste dumping is a crime that costs the public purse £1bn a year. We know the challenges and are working hard to overcome them."

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

A former executive beauty director at Goop, Godfrey-June was in Rome this summer discussing her insomnia with a colleague, Kelly Atterton, when Atterton reached into her purse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Most of these vessels are purse seiners or trawlers, which deploy vast nets to capture dense schools of fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

I stop listening, fold over the top of the chewable medication packet, and tuck it back into my purse.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

A retired government employee who now works at Dodger Stadium, Gonzalez buys herself one of Zaggle’s purses for every birthday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

That doesn’t mean these particular investments are ones to match right now for investors with shorter time horizons and far lighter purses.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

Cartier is also benefiting from a growing perception that luxury jewelry offers better value for money than designer purses, after many handbag brands increased their prices too quickly during the pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

For her, assimilation took the form of middle-class attainment: a nice home, Coach purses and a leased C-Class Mercedes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Not that many girls carry purses in junior high, but I got my period back in elementary school and got caught one day without any “supplies.”

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

The visit has the heavy air of obligation — they don’t see Dad very often — and when he clumsily welcomes them into his ramshackle house, pregnant pauses and pursed lips ensue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025

In the current, so-called third design generation, the hood slopes down to form the stiff upper lip of a mouth pursed with purpose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025

Their foreheads were pressed together, their eyes were shut, their hands clasped; her lips were ever-so-slightly pursed, his forehead was wrinkled in concentration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025

Mr Millard-Smith said PCNs were "a contractual debt", which could ultimately be pursed through the civil courts and result in a County Court Judgement, which can affect your credit rating.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

She pursed her lips together when she was done, like she had to struggle to keep back some words.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

This also implies less emphasis on headline GDP growth and greater tolerance for near-term growth fluctuations instead of pursing growth at all costs, they add.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

The fact it's his daughter pursing the sporting path is irrelevant to him.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025

Using her design skills — they met in New York City when she was attending Parsons School of Design and he was pursing comedy — Beame Martin led a rebuild of the studio-turned-gallery.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2025

Enter the anti-wrinkle straw, shaped like the number 7, with a small hole at the top horizontal portion that allows users to drink without pursing their lips.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

I look at her, pursing my lips like, How dumb are you?

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon