pocket money
Example Sentences
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What was, at first, a way to make some pocket money eventually became a “calling.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Each summer, the teenage Hockney had cycled here from Bradford to earn pocket money on local farms.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
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
It’s the estate-planning equivalent of handing your kids pocket money.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 16, 2026
A coin that was his first never-spent pocket money.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
