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Example sentences for "salary"

Lexicographically close words:
salamanders; salams; salaried; salaries; salario; salbe; sale; saleable; salen; salep
  1. Perhaps he could not expect her to understand that the salary which had amply sufficed for a bachelor must be managed with some care when it had to support a wife and a house.

  2. The appointment, therefore, to which a fair salary was attached, was eagerly sought by him.

  3. His treatise on this subject secured an introduction to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, who perceived his merits, and by whom he was appointed a lecturer on mathematics at Pisa, but on the small salary of sixty crowns a year.

  4. His progress was not, however, so marked as to insure his salary and expenses; in fact, the whole history of these early years represents the hardest kind of struggle against financial difficulties.

  5. His colleagues, in optimism or irony, voted him a salary of two thousand dollars a year and traveling expenses, to be paid from the receipts of any subordinate Granges he should establish.

  6. He would take no salary from Congress, says Mr. McMaster, in fine antithesis, but he exacted his due from the family of the poor mason.

  7. The question of the librarian's salary was the next care, for the state law authorizing towns to appropriate tax money for libraries was yet ten years in the future.

  8. The hopes raised by his brilliant reception were disappointed; he was badly treated by the authorities, by whom his salary was only paid very irregularly, and, finally, not at all.

  9. He spent all he could save out of his small salary in buying books, and in having copies made of such classics as were not then in print.

  10. Section 77 Peter was duly scolded, and put to work as an "office man" at his old salary of twenty dollars a week.

  11. Peter took her ideas to McGivney, and then to Guffey, and the result was that her talents were recognized, and by the lever of a generous salary she was pried loose from the manicure parlor.

  12. Gamaliel Lunk, and had been secretly employed by him to carry on a propaganda among the congregation to obtain a raise in salary for the underpaid convulsionist.

  13. Grub and necessaries was to be provided by Scudder--for salary as stated and commission understood.

  14. Nobody blamed him; the salary paid a minister in South Orham is enough to make any feller buy patent ear drums.

  15. So she added her eighty pounds to her aunt's eighty and went to live with her in Camden Street North, while Louisa shrugged her shoulders and carried herself and her salary elsewhere.

  16. This, with the term's salary which Miss Cursiter had insisted on, was enough to keep her going for a year.

  17. Louisa was better company, to begin with; and Louisa, with her cleverness and her salary and her general air of indifference and prosperity, raised no questions.

  18. You shall have a percentage on business done and a weekly salary as well.

  19. We shall dry dock the Black Eagle, and your salary is now ten pounds a month and two and a half commission.

  20. I wonder how much the salary of an assistant professor is.

  21. Salary or no salary I did not care--nothing made any difference now.

  22. I knew as well as if he had told me that when he broke loose from any sort of steady salary he had abandoned all hope of persuading me to come and grow in his green-house, as he had once put it.

  23. I am an instructor, with a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars a year.

  24. My salary was generous, and with Esther's little income we were rich indeed.

  25. The salary to begin with is to be a hundred and twenty-five dollars a month," she remarked.

  26. So you see I couldn't pay a big salary to a young thing like you or to anybody; especially till you, or whoever it was, had learned something of the business.

  27. Well, they'll make trouble and work enough, but the pay will help to eke out that starvation salary of yours.

  28. They are expected evidently to live at home, or to supplement their salary in some other fashion (just how Joan was not sure, but she entertained uneasy suspicions).

  29. A salary and commissions--do you get me, wench?

  30. After all, there was not only his salary to be relied upon, but his commissions, dependent upon his own energy, which seemed boundless.

  31. The regular salary at the Parthenon sufficed, with Anita's skilful management, for the three; but there was no longer any question of putting by.

  32. The salary at the Parthenon was not magnificent, but it was a certainty, and they were frugal young people.

  33. To John, no longer quite so hungry, for his salary was larger now, that supper was not so much a meal as a series of delightful additions to his impressions of the finer side of the character of Marien.

  34. The salary will be fifteen dollars more a month.

  35. Scofield had offered him a salary of twelve thousand dollars a year, and he went to see that gentleman promptly.

  36. After eating a seven-dollar dinner with the financial man of a Chicago firm of bond dealers, it was not the easiest thing in the world to content himself the next day with the fifty-cent luncheon which his own salary permitted.

  37. My salary was not very munificent, you know, and I have usually contrived to get rid of it, frequently before I got the pay check in my hands.

  38. Finally he found work in a plow store at a salary of six hundred dollars a year.

  39. Her brother Luke received a larger salary from King Henry VIII.

  40. From her yearly salary of one hundred dollars, and what she could earn in her government work, she had saved enough to buy a home for her father!

  41. Lyman Beecher, a man of remarkable mind and sunshiny heart, was preaching earnest sermons in his own and in all the neighboring towns, on the munificent salary of five hundred dollars a year.

  42. Miss Lyon's own salary was but two hundred a year and she never would receive anything higher.

  43. Other children had come into the Beecher home, and with a salary of eight hundred dollars, poverty could not be other than a constant attendant.

  44. She was offered the position of librarian at the Nantucket library, with a salary of sixty dollars the first year, and seventy-five the second.

  45. On the other hand, he was offered three times the salary he was getting as a missionary if he would become a foreman.

  46. His scanty salary will not allow many new books, and often his papers are out of date.

  47. My dear child, do you realize that my salary is eighteen hundred a year, and I get only a few hundred dollars in fees.

  48. Then the girls were absorbed in a discussion of the utter impossibility of bringing next month's allowance or salary within speaking distance of last month's bills, a subject which admitted of no argument but which interested them deeply.

  49. Daddy pays me double the salary we used to pay the cook, and I provide better meals and more cheaply than she did.

  50. She offers you a salary of one hundred pounds per annum, all your expenses paid, except your dress.

  51. As far as salary goes, I think her terms liberal.

  52. It contained bank-notes to the amount of one hundred pounds, nearly double the salary due to me.

  53. Can you give me an idea of what you would regard as a satisfactory salary in case I engaged you?

  54. I give you a large salary out of friendship.

  55. He reflected that if the professor carried out his promise, and gave him half a month's salary on reaching Liverpool, that would be as soon as he would have any use for it.

  56. However, I only mentioned this to explain why my salary was so large.

  57. Mr. McCracken had told him that Professor Puffer would pay him twenty-five dollars a month, besides his board and traveling expenses, and this he rightly considered as an unusual salary for a boy of his age.

  58. When the civil war commenced, she refused to draw her salary from a treasury already overtaxed, resigned her clerkship and devoted herself to the assistance of suffering soldiers.

  59. After the close of the war a bill was passed by Congress authorizing the payment of salary due Mrs. Ella F.

  60. His salary was one hundred forty pounds a year.

  61. Of the eight years of his presidency much the same can be said, for all authorities agree that he expended all of his salary in maintaining his position and some say that he spent more.

  62. For his military services in the French war he received large grants of land and the payment during the Revolution of his personal expenses, and as President he had a salary of twenty-five thousand dollars a year.

  63. The company offered Radisson a salary of 100 pounds a year to stay as clerk in England.

  64. He was engaged at a fixed rate of salary to work "constantly and daily, so that said pictures may be completed as expeditiously as possible, with three assistants, also paid by the State, to render speedy and diligent assistance.

  65. He had received also a poor, lame lad into his house, whom he instructed in painting and music, and who rewarded him by demanding arrears of salary for "assistance.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "salary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    compensate; compensation; earnings; fee; hire; income; indemnify; livelihood; pay; payment; payroll; recompense; remit; remunerate; remuneration; render; revenue; reward; salary; satisfy; stipend; tender; wage