How to Use petty cash in a Sentence

petty cash

noun
  • Yes, there’s a bit of petty cash filtering in here and there for their little projects.
    — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • None of these contracts can exactly be covered by the petty cash jar.
    — Alex Hickey, ajc, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Three of the businesses said the suspect got away with petty cash, but that the damages caused are much greater.
    — Briseida Holguin, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Kilpatrick's staff has defended her handling of the petty cash fund.
    — M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press, 30 May 2020
  • Many businesses opt to use petty cash vouchers to keep track of their cash transactions.
    — Bassam Mustafa, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • Duke freely takes money from his office's petty cash box and uses it at poker games and to buy fancy golf clubs.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Yet the money, little more than petty cash for Meta, matters less than the message.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2023
  • The shoot takes about two hours, and then Richard changes into dry clothes and a warm jacket and gets his dollar from petty cash.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2018
  • To the extent there’s been solidarity, it’s been in the petty cash.
    — Jason Gale, Bloomberg.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Paying for a Secret Service detail doesn’t come out of petty cash.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The manager gave the suspect a metal box containing petty cash.
    — cleveland, 22 Sep. 2021
  • However, both their salaries combined couldn’t fill Saban’s petty cash drawer.
    — Eric Scott, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Though Ripper’s budget was in the millions, the production office was oddly low on petty cash.
    — Wired, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Blakely testified that none of the inmates ever went without their money and that the fund was used as a petty cash account or for cashing checks.
    — Ashley Remkus | [email protected], al, 29 July 2021
  • The safe contained petty cash for the business and likely did not have more than $300 inside, according to the report.
    — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2018
  • The fine is mere petty cash as Facebook reportedly earned nearly $6 billion profit in the first quarter this year.
    — Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, 11 July 2018
  • The Granger government should pursue the right safeguards to prevent its oil fund from becoming a petty cash reserve for the president.
    — Raúl Gallegos, Foreign Affairs, 2 Feb. 2017
  • The charges revolved around the use of petty cash, which is a legal way to pay vendors but in this case allowed the state to argue that the director had misappropriated the funds.
    — Irina Aleksander, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Elon Musk making a play for Twitter out of his petty cash drawer is one more example of why the pooling of so much wealth in the hands of a few is a societal disease.
    — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Reconcile and turn in all petty cash, mileage forms or other outstanding reimbursable expenses paperwork.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Qualifying expenses include wages, invoices and even petty cash.
    — Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 21 June 2023
  • Any requirements for workers to use their own bank accounts for petty cash or wire transfers are banned, and union members cannot be held liable for petty cash variances out of their control under the terms of the contract.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The audit found vulnerabilities in the merit board’s technology and inadequacies in the handling of contracts, vouchers, time-keeping and even its petty cash fund.
    — Ray Long, chicagotribune.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Information in the memo line of the checks ranged from petty cash, birthday, benevolence and office to donor gifts and volunteer bonuses and gifts amounting to $178,276.
    — Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The next step is first assistant accountant, who tracks and manages daily spending on such things as labor, petty cash and per diem expenses, while also dealing with vendor costs, such as for materials, locations and stages.
    — Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Shortly after, on the morning of her 18th birthday, Maren awakens to find that Holland has left her to fend for herself, with only an 8-track audio tape and some petty cash to remember him by.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The director told Thurman that, when a ward left the facility or died, the facility would issue a check to Fierle for any overpayments or petty cash the facility was holding for the wards to use.
    — Monivette Cordeiro, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • For instance, internal controls can restrict accountants from keeping petty cash in an office drawer, signing a bulk of unassigned checks or completing wire transfers on open IP addresses.
    — Lilit Davtyan, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
  • She was hired as the school's bookkeeper in 2018 responsible for internal accounts, the budget, accounts payable, petty cash, purchase orders and requisitions.
    — Scott Butler, Florida Times-Union, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The Financial Times reported on allegations that Sorrell had visited a prostitute, paid the bill in petty cash, and had mistreated his assistants and sacked his chauffeur after a 12-day shift.
    — Claire Atkinson, NBC News, 22 June 2018

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