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Example sentences for: earned

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Playa Las Gatas, once a walled pre-Hispanic wading pool, earned its name from the whiskered nurse sharks that used to frequent the surrounding wall.
(This doesn't count food stamps, Medicaid, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and federal aid for housing, home heating, child care, and so forth, which will still be available.)
The low earner earned 45 percent of this average.
What happens to the piece of paper after that we neither know nor care--having voted and thus earned our right to feel smug all day.
The largest mosque in the city, it has earned the name “alabaster mosque” for its grand interior faced with the smooth pale stone.