loose change

Example Sentences

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After surviving for years on undeclared odd jobs and loose change in return for sweeping pavements, he was offered work under the regularisation scheme as a house cleaner in Rome.

From Reuters

I clutched my purse full of loose change and bills watching my new doll get rung up at the register.

From Los Angeles Times

Unpretentious and unstudied, they find bits of profundity as if it were loose change behind the sofa cushions.

From Washington Post

In Rochford, it is not just the bank hub being put to the test, but also a scheme in which loose change is loaded onto a card or an app - instead of being given in small denomination copper and silver coins.

From BBC

His mother, Angela Esposito, 33, who herself dropped out of high school, worried that he might leave school and follow in the footsteps of his father, who earns tips of loose change for babysitting parked cars in Naples.

From New York Times