pelf
Example Sentences
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It borrowed until it couldn't borrow anymore to pay for a slew of programs, public employee pensions and other pelf it couldn't afford.
From US News ● May 26, 2016
Charlie followed as a glazier, repaired the windows, reaped comedy pelf.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pure scientists, above pelf and profit, are "the mystics of the modern world."
From Time Magazine Archive
With a slight fraction of this pelf he combed sandlot, high school, college, obscure league; purchased the economical services of several bright-faced lads; settled to the business of developing another winning team.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had laid business on the shelf To give his taste expansion, And, since no man, retired with pelf.
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell
Vocabulary lists containing pelf
Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 1
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Selection Vocabulary 3, Unit 1
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