Example sentences for: profit

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

  • If an entrant were more efficient than the incumbent, then the USO would not cause the lost profit.

  • K. op-ed calls the broadcast a "snuff film" and wonders, in light of the shows big rating and attendant advertising revenues, "Shouldn't the profit motive end where life and death become mere commodities for public consumption?"

  • If Isikoff and Tripp were both stoking the story so they could profit from it in the form of book deals--and not disclosing that fact to Isikoff's readers, as he had not in his August story--that would have been inappropriate to say the least.

  • A quarter, for example, costs the Mint five cents to make, but sells for 25 cents--an 80 percent profit margin.

  • The schools aren't giving away the money; they expect to turn a profit on their investments within several years.


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