allowance

Example Sentences

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The UK government, which provides the allowance, has been asked to comment.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Multiple purchases can be made during the assigned two-day window until the maximum ticket allowance has been reached.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Your father made sure you earned your allowance, and you got your first sense of what it was like to contribute to the household and — critically — be a stakeholder.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

Ministers are therefore going to increase the basic allowance by 6.2% in April - well above inflation – and have plans to do so for every year until 2029/30.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Maybe they would adopt her, and give her an allowance like other American girls got, which Sandi would then pass on to her real family.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez