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

Shop owners told the BBC Jellycat's toys had always been a stable seller, bought as gifts for newborns or by children saving up pocket money.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

No official bedtime, twice my pocket money, and for Julia’s eighteenth she went to Tanya’s Night Club in Worcester with her thousand and one friends.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell