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Example sentences for "little money"

  • It seems strange that you won't grant my first request of you, merely because of a little money.

  • It isn't a little money," he objected, catching manlike at the practical question.

  • Things came a little better than I thought they were going to, toward the last," said he, "and I made a little money.

  • And she's a little money too--nothing to speak of--but a pooty little bit of money.

  • When you've only got so little money, to put it all into that India Stock, when it might be earning 6 per cent.

  • It does drive me so wild the way you throw away all the chances you have of making a little money.

  • Well, on getting home I found a lady there, who sometimes brings me a little money for my poor.

  • To provide herself with a little money, for she would accept none as a gift, she worked at embroidery, an art in which she was most accomplished.

  • Pierre had leant forward on seeing Laveuve's eyes open, and he spoke to him tenderly, telling him that he had come from a friend with a little money to enable him to buy what he might most pressingly require.

  • She was not in favour of hustling priests when they took the trouble to call, for at times there was a little money to be got from them.

  • Edward promised to obey Jacob's directions, and the next morning he set off, mounted upon White Billy, with a little money in his pocket in case he should want it.

  • Well, there's a little money left in the bag yet, and I will go to Lymington to-morrow.

  • But it seems just to indicate that, in this matter, certain cautions should be observed.

  • We come to feel nearer to the men of the past.

  • We have seen that reflective thought tries to analyze experience and to attain to a clear view of the elements that make it up--to realize vividly what is the very texture of the known world, and what is the nature of knowledge.

  • His wife was said to be his master; I have been told she brought him a little money, but it cannot have been much.

  • Ernest sometimes gave her a little money himself, but not, as he says now, half what he ought to have given.

  • In the spring and summer of 1861 he even put by a little money again.

  • Rawdon made her a tolerable annuity, and we may be sure that she was a woman who could make a little money go a great way, as the saying is.

  • I wish you could have got a little money out of him," Rawdon said to his wife moodily when the Baronet was gone.

  • He probably got a little money from Mr. Warren; and we are certain, that he executed here one piece of literary labour, of which Mr. Hector has favoured me with a minute account.

  • He had a little money when he came to town, and he knew how he could live in the cheapest manner.

  • Not too hard a job at first--that's why I'll need a little money.

  • So there was nothing for me to do but to borrow a little money from my friends and to come West.

  • She had also a little money, left her by, a female oyster dealer, who had picked her up when she had been left on the quay at Havre by an American captain.

  • Was it possible to make a fool of a man, of a worthy man, because his father had left him a little money?

  • It seems that he had led a bad life, that is to say, he had squandered a little money, which action, in a poor family, is one of the greatest crimes.

  • He was strong and understood farming; with a little money in his pocket he would make an excellent cultivator.

  • Watch the lady well, otherwise she might yet make a little money by a "life" among your "lowly.

  • He earned a little money by carrying trunks filled with clothes or traveling men's samples up an incline from the steamboat landing to the railroad station.

  • Both my wife and myself work until we've saved a little money.

  • After a year or two he paid no more attention to the dissolute farmhand who came occasionally to the station to mutter and swear at him; and, when he had earned a little money, gave it to the woman to keep for him.

  • Thanks to his father's shop, he had read a great deal already; and with a little money, how he would buy books, how he would read them!

  • She must look after the child, make a little money perhaps by her beautiful embroidery.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little money" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little ashamed; little beaten; little bit; little black; little chap; little child shall lead; little cousin; little dance; little daughter; little distance from the; little gesture; little group; little higher; little iron; little known; little lady; little mouse; little patience; little reason; little shudder; little soul; little space; little sunshine; little too; little valley; little vanilla