make a buck

idiom

: to earn money
I am just working hard, trying to make a buck.

Examples of make a buck in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Zoom in: Pecora's aspirations grew out of needing a quick way to make a buck to buy a new, expensive mountain bike, per Time. Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024 Marvel itself mocks its audience’s susceptibility by bringing back characters, including many Marvel-hero cameos, against narrative logic, simply to make a buck. Armond White, National Review, 26 July 2024 Or whether businesspeople with foreign ties were trying to make a buck, or millions, from his presidency? Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, 5 June 2024 As international tensions rose in the summer and fall of 1962, Byrne went door to door trying to make a buck — and failed miserably. Thomas Bishop, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for make a buck 

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“Make a buck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make%20a%20buck. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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