pin money

Example Sentences

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In her columns, Fern returned to the theme of a woman’s financial freedom, and her right to more than just pin money.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

While Boulogne relied on pin money, Calais relied on needle – or more exactly bobbin – money.

From Time • Oct. 26, 2016

People still pin money on the statue for charity.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2010

They started setting it up for pin money at high school dances, and then for events at Franklin & Marshall College, in Lancaster.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2010

There was a first-rate shirt, a pair of trousers that looked brand-new, knitted socks, and storebought suspenders that must have been bought out of Aunt Pretty’s pin money.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney