Sample Sentences for
minimum wage
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    Minimum wage but that's all she can find right now.†  (source)
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    I can give you twenty-five hours a week at the minimum wage.†  (source)
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    Before you know it, you'll be working for him at minimum wage while he can hardly walk from the weight in his pockets.†  (source)
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    The moviemakers pay local extras the minimum wage, and Savannah doesn't get publicity after all, because the audiences usually haven't the vaguest idea where the movies have been shot.†  (source)
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    And that li'l minimum-wage job your pops gave me didn't make nothing happen.†  (source)
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    Beck, however, was in the habit of turning his monologues into scathing, Limbaughesque rants against bed-wetting liberals, and at one point that evening I made the mistake of disagreeing with him: in response to one of his comments I suggested that raising the minimum wage seemed like a wise and necessary policy.†  (source)
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    There's $213 left in Molly's savings account from the minimum-wage job she had last summer scooping ice cream in Bar Harbor.†  (source)
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    Getting sent out meant the minimum wage—minus Uncle Sam's share—for as many hours as you were needed.†  (source)
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    Instead of hiring a large human security force-which impacts the social environment-you know, lots of minimum-wage earners standing around carrying machine guns-Mr. Lee prefers to use nonhuman systems.†  (source)
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    After travel expenses and entry fees, he probably would have been better off working minimum wage.†  (source)
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    Around here, there are a lot of minimum-wage-type jobs that don't pay much more than daycare costs, so why bother?†  (source)
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    Max's parents split up before he was born and his mother cleans motel rooms for minimum wage.†  (source)
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    Instead, due to choices she'd made, as well as a few circumstances beyond her control, she'd always had low-level, minimum-wage, benefits-only-if-you're-really-lucky kinds of jobs: waitress, retail, telemarketer, temp.†  (source)
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