Example sentences for: earns

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

  • Firms can grow for any number of reasons, but only one is mathematically certain, and that is the one Glassman's argument depends on: A firm that earns $1 can use it to expand, and thus increase its earnings, expand even more, and so on.

  • The score by first-time composer Jeffrey Stock earns approval for being more Sondheim than Lloyd Webber.

  • For example, the revenue that the Employees Health Benefit fund earns from contributions by Federal employees, annuitants, employer entities, and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is an offset to the insurance premiums that it pays to private firms.

  • (Astonishingly, the brief Times story finds room to list each defendant's income, as in "Mr Fairley, a father of two, earns about £46,000 a year as European sales manager for a medical equipment firm."

  • From Dewar's Profiles to Miller Time, a drink or a smoke has more often than not been portrayed as a reward for hard work, an indulgence that the achieving bourgeoisie earns the right to allow itself.


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