Sample Sentences forpension (auto-selected)
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Between Social Security and a good company pension, my grandparents are reasonably comfortable.pension = a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working
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So I sit at my ease, as befits a mahout,—not a mere hunter,—a mahout, I say, and a man who gets a pension at the end of his service. (source)pension = a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income after retiring
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It's more like being on vacation in some strange pension.† (source)
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Papaw had retired only a few years earlier, owned stock in Armco, and had a lucrative pension.† (source)
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He commuted his pension and provident fund to buy a Bharat bottle-sealing machine.† (source)
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'Tis a good job and I'd be a postman in no time and it has the pension.† (source)
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So take my watch, my wallet, my pension fund.† (source)
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Give us medals where they think we were right, take away our pensions and put us in jail where they decide we were wrong.† (source)
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He may have had a temper, but he was a reasonably harmless old pensioner.† (source)
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He subscribed much too much to things connected with his mess, he pensioned off his father's servants, old or new, much too generously.† (source)
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He says his father is a loyal member and that's how he got a good pensionable job cleaning lavatories at the railway station and when he grows up himself he'll get a good job too unless he runs away and joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police so that he can sing "I'll Be Calling You Ooo Ooo Ooo," like Nelson Eddy singing to Jeanette MacDonald expiring with consumption there on the sofa.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-able" in pensionable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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Tim is getting old, and Tim has been a faithful servant, brother Ned; and I don't think pensioning Tim's mother and sister, and buying a little tomb for the family when his poor brother died, was a sufficient recompense for his faithful services.'† (source)
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There, he'll live off his pension while working for his brother, an orthopedic surgeon.† (source)
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She had to provide for us, and she was helping out her parents, who were living off two small pensions and their small monthly Social Security check.† (source)
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And the metal-detecting pensioner who unearthed the can and, after a careful inspection, dropped it where he had found it.† (source)
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I guess he's pretty shaky— They've pensioned him off.† (source)
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