Example sentences for: purse

How can you use “purse” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Another group of metaphors excluded is the names of natural species such as footman and emperor moths, lady's slipper, shepherd's purse, porpoise, etc.

  • In other words, opera benefits from the public purse to the tune of about $100 million a year--more than the entire proposed 1999 budget of the NEA.

  • In restaurants she cleans out the bread basket and transfers everything to her purse.

  • Proponents of the counterterrorism agenda might respond by being less inclined to loosen the purse strings than they would have been if offered a convincing counterterrorism budget strategy.

  • worrying sound working its way from his mouth that's not so much a mouthas a coin purse cinched tight, sewnwith the fragments of his lips--the yipping gait of breathlessness he makes, which makes no sense


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