How to Use chump change in a Sentence

chump change

noun
  • And at the end of the day, $28 to $35 billion dollars is not chump change.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Hey, that’s chump change for a golfer who has made more than $32 million this year.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2023
  • That's chump change for Apple... and Amazon... and Google.
    Samuel Axon and Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 14 June 2022
  • The cost is about $4,000, which isn't exactly chump change.
    Samantha Lefave, Redbook, 26 May 2017
  • To one of the commissioners, though, that’s chump change.
    Brittany Trang Reprints, STAT, 1 Feb. 2023
  • That’s gonna make Jeremy Maclin’s old deal and Dwayne Bowe’s old deal look like chump change by the time that rolls around.
    Terez A. Paylor, kansascity, 9 Mar. 2018
  • That’s less than chump change for a project valued at $1.2 billion.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • In the Facebook universe, this is the chumpiest of chump change.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Not top-of-the-first-round NFL money, but certainly not chump change.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 14 Jan. 2023
  • To be sure, $200 million is chump change in the fantasy land of pop culture.
    Terry Teachout, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2019
  • But compared to the terrifying scale of the problem, the spending has been chump change.
    Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Half a million bucks is chump change, of course, for someone who is perhaps the richest person in the world.
    Gary Marcus, Fortune, 3 June 2022
  • If Tatis comes close to reaching his potential, by the end of his term his contract will be chump change.
    Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
  • But that’s chump change compared to what the 39 private residences here cost.
    Katie Jackson, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The tax credit isn’t chump change: Torgerson said it would be valued at 24 percent of the project’s cost.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
  • And today’s parting shot amounts to chump change for a billionaire.
    Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 5 Oct. 2019
  • But even that is chump change relative to the $97 trillion agenda Sanders campaigned on.
    Andrew Follett, National Review, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Tickets are relatively cheap All things considered, $153 to sit in the very front row of a huge wrestling show is chump change.
    Brandon Howard, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2018
  • But the deal’s dollar amount — arguably chump change in the sports world of billions — was less important to him than tradition.
    Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The logical conclusion is that giving chump change to people in dire straits won’t help them very much or for very long.
    WSJ, 27 July 2022
  • For a family that made nearly three-quarters of a million dollars a year, that’s chump change.
    Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 5 Dec. 2020
  • At nearly $200, this puffer jacket isn't chump change, but like all Ugg pieces, the brand's outwear is built to last many frigid winters, keeping you toasty for years to come.
    Claire Harmeyer, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2022
  • That's chump change for a company with over $200 billion of cash and securities on hand.
    Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2022
  • That would have averaged out to $22.86 million a season, hardly chump change.
    Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 15 Jan. 2018
  • That’s not chump change, but given that the average winning House candidate now spends around $1.5.
    Charlotte Hill, Vox, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Tag Heuer watch boxes have an average value of £149 — is hardly chump change.
    Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 3 June 2021
  • For major food service companies, the K-12 market is chump change.
    Sara Ruberg, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The money spent on these lawsuits and settlements may seem like chump change to mega-corporations.
    Ariella Steinhorn, Fortune, 14 June 2023
  • That's not chump change, but after that, the benefits become more nebulous.
    Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • In the lucrative world of college athletics, that sum is considered chump change.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023

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