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:

  • And isn't it true that Marxists have a vision of class conflict that is at odds with a vision (embraced by Giuliani) that sees an "orgy of profit-making" as a good thing because everyone has an interest in capitalist prosperity?

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

  • Legislation requiring USPS to place its nonmonopoly products under the control of a separate, profit-making organization is pending in a House subcommittee chaired by John McHugh, R-N.Y.

  • 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.

  • 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").


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