Synonyms for purses

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1. List of paraphrases for "purses":

   handbags, bags, wallets, pockets, portfolios, sacks

How to pronounce purses?

Alex

US English

Daniel

British

Karen

Australian

Veena

Indian

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How to use purses in a sentence?

1. Sir Thomas Browne:

   There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.

2. Francis Quarles:

   Use law and physic only for necessity. They that use them otherwise abuse themselves into weak bodies and light purses. They are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.

3. William Cecil Burleigh:

   Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.

4. Karl Kraus:

   Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

5. Chen Yi:

   They use things of various value from jewelry to purses and even cars.