How to Use cash cow in a Sentence

cash cow

noun

• The movie studio saw the actress as a cash cow.
• The football team was a cash cow for the university.
• The event should be a cash cow for the Fort Worth area.
  — Dallas News, 5 June 2021
• Yet, will Pacquiao, still a cash cow of the sport, be around?
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2021
• The fees have become somewhat of a cash cow over the past 20 years.
  — Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• The Big Ten could expand to 100 teams and no one would mess with that cash cow.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
• The market was to be more of a social mission than a cash cow.
  — Michele Herrmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2020
• The fees have become somewhat of a cash cow for banks over the past 20 years, some experts have said.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2022
• Only if the Joneses were to sell their cash cow could such a thing happen.
  — Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2022
• The broadcaster is the cash cow, which does allow for the broadcaster to have a say.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• Football, of course, is the cash cow for most college programs.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 23 Mar. 2020
• For their long-term survival, both broadcast and cable news have the cash cow of live sports.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
• At the heart of the current battle is Future Retail, the cash cow of Future Group.
  — Sherisse Pham, CNN, 29 Oct. 2020
• But the story of a politician looking to turn her seat into a cash cow isn’t mine.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 16 Oct. 2020
• The new commissioner needs to be well-versed in the ins and outs of the biggest cash cow, college football.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 21 Jan. 2021
• Clinics like these aren’t cash cows for health systems.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 17 July 2023
• In many cities making change has become a cash cow for some because of the great U.S. coin shortage.
  — Stephen Moore, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2020
• Pro says: The Hilltoppers have been a cash cow since the beginning of last year, winning 15 of their last 21 games against the spread.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 20 Oct. 2022
• Boyd has certainly been a cash cow for the Bengals on third down this season.
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
• The people running the tournaments don't want to kick them out, because that's their cash cow.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Aug. 2022
• This would otherwise be the cash cow of Rama Jama’s year.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 13 Apr. 2020
• Alex’s minions are sweeping her away, leaving a stunned Bradley with the job of keeping the network’s cash cow on its feet.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2021
• The union didn’t go after the companies’ big cash cows, which are full-size pickup trucks and big SUVs.
  — Tom Krisher, ajc, 16 Sep. 2023
• Based on that, the Postal Service is a cash cow, generating a total of $13.5 billion over the past five years.
  — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2020
• And now, online stock trading, once a cash cow for Wall Street, has gone commission-free.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Whether it was planned from the start or just a last-ditch effort to save the trading firm years later, FTX would be used as a cash cow to keep Alameda afloat.
  — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• Those self-driving cars are the ideal cash cow for chipmakers.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• The Mexican cash cow was there to promote his next fight — the too-long-in-the-making third clash with Gennadiy Golovkin — and brought his talking points.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2022
• Overkill, but don't mess with The Simpsons annual ratings cash cow.
  — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• Amazon is in the cloud services business for the long haul Amazon’s cloud cash cow is slipping out of sprint mode and into marathon mode.
  — Quartz, 28 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024