Synonym: bag, handbag, pocketbook, wrinkle. Similar words: pursue, pursuit, course, nurse, recourse, of course, by yourself, discourse. Meaning: [pɜrs /pɜːs] n. 1. a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) 2. a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse 3. a small bag for carrying money 4. a sum of money offered as a prize. v. 1. contract one's lips into a rounded shape 2. gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker.
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121, Having a lot of people out of work places a large drain on the public purse.
122, She tipped the contents of her purse out onto the table.
123, The money could simply go into the public purse, helping to lower taxes.
124, Dumont, with her sequined purse and overly ample bosom.
125, Don't let me forget my purse.
126, A purse was taken at gunpoint.
127, The blighter stole my purse!
128, Hurriedly draining her cup, she reached for her purse.
129, Doggone it! I can't find my purse.
130, I hand her back her purse.
131, One story is told of a man who saw a leprechaun bury a purse of gold in a field of ragwort.
132, She reached into a small clutch purse,(http://sentencedict.com/purse.html) pulled out a plastic bag and threw up into it.
133, At the airport, Customs officials inspected my purse and hand luggage.
134, In the vestibule, I scanned the column of buzzers while she fumbled in her purse for her keys.
135, On leaving the field, Mickey found a purse containing four pounds, a pension book and a set of house keys.
136, Why, for instance, does Dahlia continue to control the purse strings after Ella is revealed as the rightful heir?
137, The coppers used to come around at first every time somebody stole a dame's purse but finally they gave it up.
138, Mr Sammler in the elevator, extracting the Yale key from his change purse.
139, I spent over an hour looking for my keys, and they were in my purse all along.
140, She gave him a kiss on the neck, and picked up her purse off the bar.
141, Surreptitiously I pointed to my purse and raised my eyebrows at her.
142, From her purse, my friend produced a freshly laundered white cotton handkerchief.
143, Purse nets remain unaffected and are as functional as at any other time.
144, I told myself to go ahead, open the purse and get it over with.
145, The Government have no intention of giving power to anyone except those who hold the purse strings.
146, She slipped me a dollar bill from her change purse.
147, When Topaz arrived at the residence of Lord Oswin Lovat she didn't hold out much hope of prising his purse open.
148, She pressed up against me, her fingers tickling my codpiece though I knew she was after my purse.
149, They looked at the sketch and asked her if she had actually seen the man reach for her purse.
150, Her purse bulged with keys, cigarettes, scraps of paper, and old receipts.
More similar words: pursue, pursuit, course, nurse, recourse, of course, by yourself, discourse, in due course, in the course of, spur, yours, spurn, purple, purely, purvey, burst, purview, purpose, purchase, burst in, purloined, on purpose, purposeful, burst into, per se, purposefully, terse, verse, sparse.