Use wage in a sentence
Sentences ending with wage
- But he sped but ill, dwelling alone, inasmuch as he would forget to eat and drink and mislay or lose his hardly won wage. [10]
- His cupidity had been flattered by the unpaid service of a capable assistant, but now he saw that he was paying the devil a wage. [11]
- Her father was a simple clerk in the Chancery office and was accountant to the convent for some small wage. [10]
More example sentences with the word wage in them
- Battles do not wage, battles are waged. [5]
- A mechanic's average wage was 3 cents a day, when he paid his own keep. [5]
- He was to wage no less courageous a battle at home, in the King's own capital. [9]
- A living minimum wage is to be established. [9]
- Consequently, wages were twice as high in the North as they were in the South, because the one wage had that much more purchasing power than the other had. [5]
- This applies also to the small capitalists, the owners of the coffee plantations, as well as to those Americans in Mexico who are not capitalists but wage earners. [9]
- Britain has stood the test, even from the old-fashioned militarist point of view, since it is apparent that no democracy can wage a sustained great war unless it is socialized. [9]
- Five times in the past had Tinoir been the Guardian of the Fire, and five times had the people praised him; but praise and his scanty wage were all he got. [11]
- Let us call the average wage 1500 florins ($600). [5]
- She meant to show him that there was one Mormon who could play a game or wage a fight in the open. [13]
- That is well said, said Arthur, now have I a sword, now will I wage battle with him, and be avenged on him. [5]
- The proprietors are rich, and very holy; but the wage they pay to these poor brothers and sisters of theirs is only enough to keep them from dropping dead with hunger. [5]
- On the cinder playground of the Academy we Republicans used to wage, during campaigns, pitched battles for the Tariff. [9]
- The clear sight of the latter becomes dazzled by the glittering treasure, and they cannot but suffer continual humiliation, because, conscious of possessing power to obtain much, they wage an eager war for all, and therein are continually defeated. [10]
- Still, the image of Paula rose high and supreme above that of the terrible old man, in Orion's fancy, and his father, as it seemed to him, was like an ally in the battle he was destined to wage in his own strength. [10]
- The wage system must be abolished. [9]
- She did not know that any one wage in the room until she heard his voice, and then she thought that she was dreaming. [9]
- Brother Dowley, who is it that determines, every spring, what the particular wage of each kind of mechanic, laborer, and servant shall be for that year? [5]
- Schorlin which he had begun to wage in its name. [10]
- Out of Saladin's first year's wage she put thirty dollars in the savings-bank, sixty out of his second, a hundred out of his third, a hundred and fifty out of his fourth. [5]
- Banish sorrow--I will betake me to my books again, and study so ill that they must in justice treble thy wage, so mightily shall the business of thine office be augmented. [5]
- Neither can we believe that devotion in the cause of love could be wanting when a whole nation was ready to wage a fierce and obstinate war for the sake of one beautiful woman. [10]
- Whether the engineer be named Jim, or Bob, or Tom, it is all one--his services are necessary, and he is entitled to such wage as he can get you to pay. [5]
- The magistrate fixes a mechanic's wage at one cent a day, for instance. [5]
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