Example sentences for: profiting

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

  • The outfits, they say, use deceptive marketing practices to lure customers into a rapid-fire trading approach that will probably cause them to lose money, and then often arrange for them to receive illegal loans (sometimes directly profiting from those loans).

  • Only the telephone company is profiting from such ineptitude.

  • In this scenario, Texaco ends up with an all-white work force, but no harm is done to anybody: Blacks who would have worked at Texaco end up in equally desirable jobs at Exxon; Texaco stockholders who would have profited from the wisdom of black executives end up profiting from the equal wisdom of white executives.

  • Major Buddhist temples, profiting from the suppression of Christianity during the 17th century, were established by Chinese Zen monks and designed in the style of the late Ming Dynasty.

  • Only the telephone company was profiting from such ineptitude.


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