Words similar to purse

Example sentences for: purse

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

Marie shocked the polite society of his married officer friends and their wives by pulling a switchblade out of her purse and cleaning her nails.
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.
The friend did not believe her, but after she fell asleep, he opened her purse and found a gun.
In the late 1980s, I myself had expressed hopes that intensive-supervision parole programs could protect the public and its purse.
I now believe it is the funders of research—charities, governments, and other publicly funded bodies such as national research agencies—who hold the purse strings that can untie scientific discoveries from a publishing market that is no longer serving the community as well as it could.