be sold for a pittance

Often the excess must be sold for a pittance and used for industrial alcohol production rather than wine.

Studying the works more carefully, I realized they were being sold for a pittance, some for as little as $50.

There are many beauties, many of them even formerly free, who find themselves upon the block these days, being sold for a pittance of tarsks."

Tragically, looting of temples continued sporadically throughout this period, with fugitives often carrying Khmer art objects to refugee camps in Thailand to be sold for a pittance to traffickers.

The hero of Wansa-kun was Wansa, a puppy who is sold for a pittance, then escapes, and spends much of the rest of the series looking for his mother.

Assemblyman Richard Brodsky uncovered some of the more outlandish secrets of this other governmental universe, like the development rights along the Erie Canal that were sold for a pittance.

It is a sad fact that these ponies have to be born at all, but hundreds are, every year, bred on our moorlands and then rounded up during autumn to be sold for a pittance at the sale.

Recognizing the profit potential in the vast amounts of war surplus being sold for a pittance, Mr. Grossman again proved his shrewdness, selling rocket tubes for water pipes, for example, and, in his most daring and conspicuous undertaking, selling tanks to farmers for conversion into tractors.