Examples of pittance

• Today, runners are paid a pittance by comparison, not even enough to support themselves.

• There is precise information about the celebration of the anniversaries of founders and benefactors throughout the year, with appropriate pittances and almsgiving.

• The services which can be run on this pittance are minimal and generally fall down in terms of distribution.

• Less developed countries produce mainly agricultural products, at a pittance, for consumption by the rich world.

• For that we received a miserable pittance, and those were the conditions under private enterprise.

• Many of them are getting such a miserable pittance that it means actual starvation.

• Take the case of the ill-paid workman with his miserable pittance of approved benefit.

• It was pitiful to see her trying to do her best to manage on a mere pittance.