allowance

Charlene remembered her nephew as a source of happiness in her home, a cheerful presence who once used his allowance to buy his mother a stuffed unicorn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Sir William Napier continued providing him with an annual allowance, and Byfield traveled to London when his longtime patron died in 1860.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

Shortly after becoming prime minister, Andy Burnham told the Times that the "frustration" of people in his Makerfield constituency about the frozen allowance had "lodged in my mind".

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Through a “linkage agreement,” California and Quebec let indulgences move across borders, and participate together in WCI’s quarterly allowance auctions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

She hadn’t expected that much of an allowance.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

We have agitated for paid parental leave, universal childcare, better public schools, child allowances, and other help for struggling parents.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

It is fed by California’s cap-and-invest program, which allows large polluters to buy and sell allowances for their greenhouse gas emissions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

In a letter seen by BBC News NI, the body expressed concern to Stormont's communities minister that local councils "will not be as effective" unless allowances and conditions improve.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

They are usually non-refundable, with limitations on checked-luggage allowances and the opportunities to collect miles.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

Because he had once written a book, a dry treatise on melancholy, he felt the world should ever after make special allowances for him.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

The first album I ever bought with my own money, allowanced saved up for weeks, was “Long Hard Climb.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2020

We found sugar scarce; butter scarce, and bread sharply allowanced in hotels and restaurants.

From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White

I also cut about three or four pounds off a flitch of bacon that hung in the chimney corner, nicely marked to prevent any being lost on account of my late allowanced state.

From The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns by George Nugent-Bankes

On the other hand, they will not stand being allowanced for tea, sugar, butter, or anything of the kind, and as a rule they fare in exactly the same style as their masters.

From Town Life in Australia by Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny

Then don't you ever go and say you were allowanced, mind that.'

From The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

And when the larger wood begins to grow scarce, what course does the peasant adopt?—The allowancing of individuals.

From The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution An Address Delivered in Paris by Henry Glasse

The Germans had been allowancing Recicourt to nine a day.

From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White