How to Use chump change in a Sentence

chump change

noun

• And at the end of the day, $28 to $35 billion dollars is not chump change.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
• Hey, that’s chump change for a golfer who has made more than $32 million this year.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2023
• That's chump change for Apple... and Amazon... and Google.
  — Samuel Axon and Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 14 June 2022
• The cost is about $4,000, which isn't exactly chump change.
  — Samantha Lefave, Redbook, 26 May 2017
• To one of the commissioners, though, that’s chump change.
  — Brittany Trang Reprints, STAT, 1 Feb. 2023
• That’s gonna make Jeremy Maclin’s old deal and Dwayne Bowe’s old deal look like chump change by the time that rolls around.
  — Terez A. Paylor, kansascity, 9 Mar. 2018
• That’s less than chump change for a project valued at $1.2 billion.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
• In the Facebook universe, this is the chumpiest of chump change.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• Not top-of-the-first-round NFL money, but certainly not chump change.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 14 Jan. 2023
• To be sure, $200 million is chump change in the fantasy land of pop culture.
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2019
• But compared to the terrifying scale of the problem, the spending has been chump change.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 18 Jan. 2021
• Half a million bucks is chump change, of course, for someone who is perhaps the richest person in the world.
  — Gary Marcus, Fortune, 3 June 2022
• If Tatis comes close to reaching his potential, by the end of his term his contract will be chump change.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
• But that’s chump change compared to what the 39 private residences here cost.
  — Katie Jackson, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2023
• The tax credit isn’t chump change: Torgerson said it would be valued at 24 percent of the project’s cost.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
• And today’s parting shot amounts to chump change for a billionaire.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 5 Oct. 2019
• But even that is chump change relative to the $97 trillion agenda Sanders campaigned on.
  — Andrew Follett, National Review, 28 Mar. 2021
• Tickets are relatively cheap All things considered, $153 to sit in the very front row of a huge wrestling show is chump change.
  — Brandon Howard, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2018
• But the deal’s dollar amount — arguably chump change in the sports world of billions — was less important to him than tradition.
  — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2023
• The logical conclusion is that giving chump change to people in dire straits won’t help them very much or for very long.
  — WSJ, 27 July 2022
• For a family that made nearly three-quarters of a million dollars a year, that’s chump change.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 5 Dec. 2020
• At nearly $200, this puffer jacket isn't chump change, but like all Ugg pieces, the brand's outwear is built to last many frigid winters, keeping you toasty for years to come.
  — Claire Harmeyer, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2022
• That's chump change for a company with over $200 billion of cash and securities on hand.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2022
• That would have averaged out to $22.86 million a season, hardly chump change.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 15 Jan. 2018
• That’s not chump change, but given that the average winning House candidate now spends around $1.5.
  — Charlotte Hill, Vox, 24 Mar. 2018
• Tag Heuer watch boxes have an average value of £149 — is hardly chump change.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 3 June 2021
• For major food service companies, the K-12 market is chump change.
  — Sara Ruberg, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2023
• The money spent on these lawsuits and settlements may seem like chump change to mega-corporations.
  — Ariella Steinhorn, Fortune, 14 June 2023
• That's not chump change, but after that, the benefits become more nebulous.
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• In the lucrative world of college athletics, that sum is considered chump change.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024