How to Use pittance in a Sentence

pittance

noun

• Looking back on this race, the Be a Hero fund is a pittance.
  — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2020
• Might seem a pittance now, but, back then, a lot of you lost your minds.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 7 Mar. 2021
• The only price to pay is a fair amount of clouds and a stray shower, a pittance.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• The game show’s promise of small-scale wealth for the very few is replaced by HQ’s promise of a pittance for the few.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2017
• Time and again, the money extracted from the tech giants amounts to a pittance.
  — Wired, 4 Sep. 2019
• Her next check will be a pittance, the rent is already overdue, and there are no savings.
  — Matt Sedensky, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2017
• But that aid may prove to be a pittance to what lawmakers are now lining up.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 20 Mar. 2020
• Heck, 20 years from now, $28 million in earnings might seem like a pittance.
  — Art Wilson, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
• That means the millions who had their data hijacked but not yet abused could get a pittance.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
• Programs like the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho shrank to a pittance.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2022
• The point isn’t that Starbucks workers, or anyone, should make a pittance.
  — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• Allen described $60 billion as a pittance for one of the largest industries in the country.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
• Banks are paying a pittance on deposits, but customers don’t seem to care.
  — Orla McCaffrey, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2020
• That $257 billion is a pittance compared with the needs of the American people.
  — Jeffrey Sachs, CNN, 1 June 2021
• When Leonard Green made its third attempt to exit, the nominal price was a pittance.
  — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2020
• The donation is a pittance for AT&T, with $19.4 billion in profit last year.
  — Washington Post, 27 June 2019
• A few years after Shapira’s suicide, at least some of them were sold at an auction for a pittance.
  — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2021
• The current ones are catching a pittance of the overall heat-trapping emissions.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 6 June 2021
• On the other hand, Armstrong got out this mess for a relative pittance.
  — Bill Gifford, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2018
• And in class-action suits like what the plaintiffs are seeking, claimants usually collect a pittance next to what the lawyers take in.
  — WSJ, 25 Dec. 2018
• Cacao is mostly grown in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, where farmers are often paid a pittance for their crops.
  — WIRED, 6 Nov. 2023
• The government filed suit and offered a pittance for the property.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2020
• Compared to the billions of dollars poured into Covid vaccines, the funds for malaria are a pittance.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli Kang-Chun Cheng, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• That’s still a pittance of Wal-Mart’s 2 million associates, so the trickle-down effect will take a while.
  — Diane Stafford, kansascity.com, 11 May 2017
• The leading services pay pittances to artists—usually, less than one cent per play.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Tumul gave Joe his land for a pittance but died before his people saw more than a secondhand truck out of the deal.
  — Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
• And attorneys appointed to take those cases in Alabama at the time of the Clemons case were paid a pittance.
  — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 28 May 2011
• Only a decade ago, oil majors were signing up to be paid a relative pittance per barrel for the chance to drill in Iraq.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019
• Why would musicians accustomed to earning six or seven figures a show agree to perform for nothing or a pittance of their usual take home?
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2024
• The United States, by contrast, produces a relative pittance of most of these critical minerals and refines even less.
  — Morgan D. Bazilian, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024