Example sentences for: profit-making

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

  • For one thing, most non-profit organizations are not actually profit-making businesses.

  • In a book of essays with that title, the process of turning counterculture rebellion into profit-making opportunity that does absolutely nothing to challenge the status quo is described in various settings, such as Nike (which used William S. Burroughs to sell sneakers) and the films of Quentin Tarantino ("always hip but scrupulously content-free").

  • If the Salon IPO works, "the market"--America's answer to the Oracle at Delphi--will have declared its judgment that this sort of thing can become a real, profit-making business.

  • (Editor's note: No response exploited the suffering of anyone afflicted with a dreadful disease; all targeted profit-making medicine, California foolishness and, of course, the surviving Gabor sisters, should there be any.)

  • It seems the mayor didn't like it when the leader of a dissident group of transit workers decried "an orgy of profit-making" by New York business over Christmas.


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