How to Use pocket money in a Sentence

pocket money

noun
  • No pocket money for the children.
    — NPR, 7 May 2026
  • All that extra money gives Musk some more pocket money to spend on his jets.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 1 May 2023
  • For those wanting to get some extra pocket money, try biking to work and get paid to do it.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The earnings helped pay for his textbooks and gave him pocket money to start riding the bus to school.
    — Sonia Paul, Wired, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Hull told me that her son got his first chain saw at age 9 and had cut firewood for pocket money all through high school.
    — Lauren Smiley, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020
  • But sometimes the promise of a little pocket money doesn’t hurt.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 June 2017
  • But the average post-noms boost over the past decade has been less than half as much — pocket money for the majors.
    — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2020
  • We were given weekly pocket money but were expected to work for it with chores around the house.
    — refinery29.com, 12 Apr. 2024
  • In fact, Brooklyn even held a job at a local café in order to earn pocket money.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2023
  • In fact, Brooklyn even held a job at a local café in order to earn pocket money.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2023
  • But having him on the album is more than just a kind gesture by an aunt who wants to give her nephew a job and some pocket money.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 19 Dec. 2020
  • The housing, pocket money and cell phones are paid for through the federal contract.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Getting $10 pocket money for mowing the neighbor’s lawn is so last year.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
  • For most kids, running a lemonade stand just means earning a little extra pocket money.
    — Mikala Kane, courant.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Mahmoud went to school but still helps his uncle on Saturdays for pocket money.
    — Rania Abouzeid, National Geographic, 20 June 2019
  • Panahi recalled his younger self, who would scrape together pocket money to see a film once every one or two weeks in Iran.
    — Thomas Page, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
  • You might be tempted to pick up the tab at a restaurant, donate to someone's cause or otherwise spend your pocket money.
    — oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The maker of a protein bar, however, is hoping that the lure of some pocket money might keep those resolutions on track.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The Taliban give each soldier the equivalent of 80 dollars, pocket money for the trip home.
    — NBC News, 11 July 2021
  • The Taliban give each soldier the equivalent of 80 dollars, pocket money for the trip home.
    — NBC News, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Salvini boasted that the decree slashed the daily pocket money asylum-seekers receive.
    — Frances D'emilio, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018
  • His father was a doctor who had his own clinic on the island of Shikoku, which meant that Q never wanted for pocket money.
    — Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Fail to put money back into the team or re-sign homegrown stars, but instead pocket money received from revenue sharing over the years, until that pot dries up.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Oftentimes, some distant relative finds the stuff in an attic and gets rid of them, sometimes a descendant just needs some pocket money.
    — Ben Kesling, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • The kids of Stranger Things might be some of the youngest television stars on the planet, but that doesn’t mean they are being paid pocket money for their roles.
    — Amy De Klerk, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Oct. 2017
  • But by the early 1900s, such drink stands were typically run by youth for pocket money or charity.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • San Francisco gangsters offered Eddy and his friends pocket money to run errands.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • In Pakistan, her mother told her to set aside any pocket money and, once it’s accumulated, buy 24-karat gold coins.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The only way a migrant can legally enter Chile is as a tourist — with hotel reservations, pocket money and a return ticket.
    — Jacqueline Charles, miamiherald, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Two years ago, Austin and his brothers Collin, 13, and Ryan, 11, were looking for a way to make some pocket money.
    — Errol Barnett, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2019

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