pocket money

Example Sentences

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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

It’s the estate-planning equivalent of handing your kids pocket money.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 16, 2026

My own first summer job as a kid in search of after-school pocket money was picking cigar tobacco on a Connecticut farm just north of Hartford.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025

The neighborhood boys kept themselves in pocket money by climbing the poles to replace a washline when it slipped off a pulley.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith