Example sentences for: margins

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

  • Women's clothing must be associated either with higher costs or with higher profit margins for the dry cleaner.

  • Overall margins for the industry (particularly for specific retail segments like department stores) declined between 1977 and 1987.

  • The value of a business depends not on how hefty its profit margins are but on how efficiently it uses capital, and you can use capital efficiently by setting up a revolving door of low-margin products (Wal-Mart), a steady stream of high-margin products (most banks), or a mix of the two (which is where Intel is going).

  • There's a bigger point than just manufacturing mishaps at stake in the Intel sell-off, though, and that's what you might call the "fetishization of margins" problem, which I touched on in last week's discussion of Amazon.com's zShops initiative.

  • He often scrawled questions and comments in the margins, eliciting written responses.


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