PROFIT in a Sentence

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210 example sentences for PROFIT, such as:

1. No great loss but some small profit.
2. Honour and profit lie not in one sack.
3. I mean to make my profit of Mrs Wallis, however.
4. We were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year.
5. Supermarkets make a lot of profit on their own brand products.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROFIT
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profit
 n.  advantageous gain or return; income received from investments or property
Classic Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
1  The trouble with most of us Southerners," continued Rhett Butler, "is that we either don't travel enough or we don't profit enough by our travels.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Half the money is honestly mine," he continued, "honestly made with the aid of honest Union patriots who were willing to sell out the Union behind its back--for one-hundred-per-cent profit on their goods.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  Completely surrounding the state capitol was a host of promoters, speculators, seekers after contracts and others hoping to profit from the orgy of spending, and many were growing shamelessly rich.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
4  No one, however, appeared to profit by the opportunity; and after a half hour of fruitless waiting she rose and wandered on.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
5  Aniele had given the entire profit of her chickens for several months.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  Also election day came round again, and Jurgis made half a week's wages out of that, all net profit.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
7  They were followed at a little distance by the scout, with a view to profit early by their report, and to obtain some faint knowledge for himself of the more immediate localities.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
8  He was alone, if the solitary sentinel who paced the mound be excepted; for the artillerists had hastened also to profit by the temporary suspension of their arduous duties.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
9  "Why, when you have a job in hand that may bring a clean profit of somewhere about a thousand or sixteen hundred, why, Tom, you're onreasonable," said Haley.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  It was used for milling corn, and brought in a handsome money profit.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
11  And thus fortified, as I supposed, on every side, I began to profit by the strange immunities of my position.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
12  It leaveth no profit for the usages of the moneys; and, besides, the good horse may have suffered wrong in this day's encounter.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  Everything is to be sold and paid for now; and all the things you mention now, Wragby and Shipley sells them to the people, at a good profit.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
14  I mean to make my profit of Mrs Wallis, however.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
15  Being himself childless, it was his openly expressed desire that the whole countryside should, within his own lifetime, profit by his good fortune, and many will have personal reasons for bewailing his untimely end.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
Example Sentence: (103 in 7 pages)
16  The results of the research should be used for the common good rather than for individual profit.
17  A small percentage reduction in the cost of materials would mean a significant increase in profit.
18  They lose credibility quickly with a resultant adverse impact on employee performance and profit.
19  The fact that the concert made a profit was considered incidental.
20  In order to maximize profit the firm would seek to maximize output.
21  No great loss but some small profit.
22  He made a huge profit from the sale of shares purchased in January under the company's stock option program.
23  Don't imagine that I'm going to get a huge profit out of this deal.
24  A lot of companies will profit from the fall in interest rates.
25  Honour and profit lie not in one sack.
26  Supermarkets make a lot of profit on their own brand products.
27  In order to maintain profit margins health and safety regulations are often put to one side.
28  A large/major portion of the company's profit goes straight back into new projects.
29  She makes a big profit from selling waste material to textile companies.
30  We were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year.