"allowance" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She extracted a meager allowance from her mother, took voice lessons, and for a time sang in a cabaret, then travelled to Rome to study art.
- It was more than useless to ask their father, but Jason had saved from his meager allowance and offered to loan it to Robert with the cat as security.
- She supplemented a meager allowance she received from the state by dressmaking and translating German works.
- Another report states her father considered allowing the marriage until the Grand Duke threatened to cut off his already meager allowance.
- Shortly after World War I, he was sent to Cambridge University with a manservant and what he later called a "meager" allowance of two pounds a week.
- But the meager allowance was hardly enough for one.
- To remind Rose that she was family, they pooled their meager allowances and gave her a golden rose on a delicate chain and gave it to her the day before she began her new life.
- Even the most meager allowance will fund a shopping spree in the narrow streets of the Greek island towns.
- Their meager allowances are docked for trivial violations, leaving them unable to buy even a soft drink, and they are often denied the occasional field trips as punishment as well.
- (Many of them were kept on meager allowances by those so-careful lord fathers, generally an amount that was less than the cost of a good dog or a field hand.)
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