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Example sentences for "stipend"

Lexicographically close words:
stinting; stints; stion; stiones; stipe; stipendiaries; stipendiary; stipends; stipes; stipitate
  1. Bid that the stipend be fixed at three hundred and fifty pounds of gold, good Anthemius, and let our guests bear to Ruas the king pledges and tokens of the emperor's friendship.

  2. Ask him whether it would not be in keeping with his valor and his might to be made one of the great captains of the empire, with a yearly stipend of many pounds of gold, as the recompense of the emperor for his services and his love.

  3. But tell me, master, do you still accept in addition the little stipend I have allotted you?

  4. On the committee day of the year 1626 it was decided that the city of Berlin should annually pay a stipend for defense of eight thousand five hundred dollars, that therewith might be maintained her garrison and the fortress of Berlin.

  5. The publicity-agent who can successfully perform this way is generally able to command an annual stipend as big as that of the President of the United States.

  6. At $50 a week, which was his stipend at the beginning, I was convinced that the Nevada Mining News had a cheap editor.

  7. Neither a jeune premier, nor a low comedian, can afford an unstinted indulgence in hats on two pounds a week, even when that modest stipend is regularly paid.

  8. There is no hard work, there is the most charming air in Kent, and there is a stipend which will permit the purchase of those luxuries to which an invalid is entitled.

  9. Now Barbara's weekly stipend was a bare half-guinea.

  10. All over the island it was the custom, and remains so I believe to this day, for the players to receive their weekly stipend on the Saturday.

  11. Sulzer obtained from the Senate a supplement for him, so long as he should be sick, to meet the unusual expenditure; and also half stipend for Maigret.

  12. King's versifier was requited by an annual pension of 100 shillings--not such a very niggardly stipend as it now sounds, if we compare the value of money in those times with the price of commodities.

  13. It has been made a matter of great complaint against the Legislature of Virginia, that it should not only have withdrawn the stipend of sixteen thousand weight of tobacco from the clergy, but also have seized upon the glebes.

  14. Yes, it's a perfect sinecure, which with its stipend of a thousand francs enables him to live there like a peasant philosopher, cultivating the somewhat extensive garden whose big walls you see yonder.

  15. At Frascati the officiating minister of a little church may receive a stipend of some nine hundred lire a year,* and he has only bread and meat to buy if his garden yields him wine and fruit and vegetables.

  16. I asked myself, "that I should go here or there at any man's bidding, for the pitiful stipend of twenty shillings a week?

  17. The parish priest receives a nominal stipend from public sources, but depends upon his people for the rest.

  18. In one way this priest was not typical, for he was paid his stipend by the company, and not dependent upon his people.

  19. There is not much to offer, though I should be prepared to add to the stipend for a man who couldn't afford to take it as it is.

  20. In a four and a half years' course the students receive from the government a monthly stipend of $4.

  21. The branches of this school are a school of design and school of apprentices, the pupils pursuing many of the studies enumerated above and receiving the same stipend of $4 a month.

  22. Luther's stipend was four hundred and fifty florins; and he too refused a yearly gift from the booksellers of four hundred dollars, not wishing to receive a gratuity for his writings.

  23. He had probably before this been installed at court as a gentleman of the bedchamber, on a stipend which would now be equal to £250 a year.

  24. When his wife died it seems he mourned for her with decent grief, but did not seek a second marriage, perhaps because he was unable to support a wife on his small stipend as she would wish and expect.

  25. For the Apostle while sowing spiritual things did not accept a temporal stipend lest he "should give any hindrance to the Gospel of Christ" as we read 1 Cor.

  26. Further, to live at the expense of the faithful is the stipend appointed to those who preach the Gospel in payment of their labor or work, according to Matt.

  27. The Governors then decided that they "cannot consistently with their trust pay the Master and Usher any more money than is fixed for their stipend by the Statutes.

  28. He shall be entitled while holding office to receive a fixed yearly stipend of 200l.

  29. For all that the chantry lands were taken from him, but the School was not dissolved: he was maintained as a Schoolmaster by a stipend of the annual value of £5 6s.

  30. The Ancient Statutes of that date give the stipend of the Master as twenty marks (£13 6s.

  31. For these pains and labours he was to receive as recompense the yearly stipend of twenty marks or £13 6s.

  32. During his first five years Richard Carr, assisted for a time by Thomas Iveson, was continuing to teach in the small and irregular building of James, his uncle; and as a stipend he was receiving annually £5 6s.

  33. Subject as in this Scheme provided, the Head Master shall receive a stipend in accordance with a rate or scale fixed by the Governors.

  34. Their stipend was not fixed, and for this reason.

  35. Humza Khan, whose own stipend was included in the general retrenchment, had been commissioned to carry the obnoxious measure into effect; and he had instigated the chiefs to resist it.

  36. For the stipend which he had received had been nothing to him,--as the great stipend which he would receive, if his hopes were true, would also be nothing to him.

  37. Does he complain of the reduction of his stipend or the infringement of treaties?

  38. St. George, who receives a stipend of 230l.

  39. St. Philip's, who receives a stipend of 275l.

  40. There was some talk of a foreign tour--and they were both candidates for the stipend accorded for that purpose--what a pleasure if they could travel together!

  41. But this year there was only one stipend to be given away; Damon was sure of getting it, having been the cleverest student.

  42. In 1654 he was elected Master of Christ's College, with an improvement in his financial position, there having been some difficulty in obtaining his stipend at Clare Hall.

  43. The slave-girls urge, that they might have had separate pensions, had they obeyed the orders to return to Lucknow on the death of the Begum, and that they ought not now to share in the stipend of the children.

  44. Finding the Court too profligate for her, she retired into private life soon after the marriage, and has remained there ever since upon a small stipend from the King.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stipend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    account; aid; alimony; allotment; allowance; annuity; appropriateness; assessment; assistance; bill; blackmail; bounty; dole; earnings; fee; fellowship; footing; grant; help; hire; livelihood; maintenance; mileage; pay; pension; reckoning; relief; remuneration; retainer; salary; scholarship; stipend; subsidy; subvention; support; tribute; welfare