Example sentences for: earning

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

  • Dickey marched over to the dugout and punched the offender in the face, earning a month's suspension and a thousand-buck fine.

  • The preposterously high margins Apple was able to earn in the early-to-mid 1980s, when it was selling Apple IIs to dealers for three times cost and earning 72-percent gross profits on Macs, undoubtedly blinded the company to the fact that consumers would not ignore price forever.

  • His first effort was the prototype pop hit "After The Ball," which, 104 years later, you can still hear every night of the week in the current Broadway revival of Show Boat . Back then, it began earning him $25,000 per week almost immediately, and went on to sell 5 million copies of sheet music.

  • The LAT front says that at a time when much of the world is blaming Israel for the collapse of the Middle East peace talks, the rescuers' efforts are boosting Israel's prestige and earning it goodwill.

  • Absent Minded Professor (1961), with Robin Williams in the lead role, draws a big audience (earning $10.


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