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Example sentences for: earn

How can you use “earn” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

If it lasts for 10 years, and the interest I could earn on my money is 5 percent, when I bought it I was facing a cost of about $19 a year.
Ear but earn, and wear and bear
To convince us to earn an income worth taxing, the government is forced to let us .
On one occasion, as our deliberations were drawing to a close after many months, we came to a particularly niggling point of dispute regarding the cost of some phase of the project--I have forgotten which--and, in frustration and exasperation, I burst out with, You must realize that if you want to earn a penny, you've got to spend a penny!, whereupon, much to my consternation, all those present fell about laughing merrily.
Much of what we know about the economic status of women is summarized in an excellent monograph by Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba, Women's Figures: The Economic Progress of Women in America . One striking fact presented there is that childless women at age 30 earn 95 percent as much as men at the same age, whereas mothers earn only 75 percent as much as men.