allowance

Example Sentences

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The first album I ever bought with my own money, allowanced saved up for weeks, was “Long Hard Climb.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2020

I'm allowanced off an' I've got t' eat on'y what he gives me—that's in our contrac'.

From The Missing Link by Dyson, Edward

Further, I was told that tea, coffee, and sugar are roughly allowanced to each family.

From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Nordhoff, Charles

I also cut about three or four pounds off a flitch of bacon that hung in the chimney corner, nicely marked to prevent any being lost on account of my late allowanced state.

From The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns by Nugent-Bankes, George

I’m allowanced by the doctor even in the matter o’ tea and coffee,” said the sergeant.

From Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)