How to Use gravy train in a Sentence

gravy train

noun

• They're trying to get on board the gravy train.
• Nobody wanted to spill the beans and stop the gravy train.
  — Roy Trakin, Variety, 8 June 2023
• The award shows are doing their best to keep the gravy train going.
  — Avi Dan, Forbes, 22 June 2021
• But the sue-and-settle gravy train may soon be sidetracked — at least at the EPA.
  — Rob Gordon, National Review, 21 Oct. 2017
• The Bulldogs’ surge means the Gators’ gravy train reached its final stop.
  — Andrew Astleford, ajc, 10 Oct. 2017
• It’s the boosters and their attorneys on one end of the gravy train and sports agents on the other.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 11 May 2022
• The movie's been available for streaming on Netflix for a while now, but the gravy train is about to end.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 20 June 2018
• Predictably, the action ebbed when the tide slacked and the fishes' gravy train stopped running.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
• Then there's figure skating, the sport that largely drives the NBC gravy train.
  — Paul Newberry, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• But the vague threats to apply the brakes to the gravy train are unlikely to push the Kaczynski government to change.
  — Steven Erlanger and Marc Santora, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
• The gravy train keeps rolling for the men, and a couple women, who run Arizona's largest companies.
  — Russ Wiles, azcentral, 27 June 2019
• Mitchell’s cooperation spelled the end to a gravy train for himself and Bickers, who was then his boss and a long-time friend.
  — J. Scott Trubey, ajc, 23 Feb. 2022
• It’s unclear if the momentum against cronyism will be sustained, but for now – and for some people – the gravy train has stopped.
  — Washington Post, 8 July 2019
• If true, that would have ensured that friendly cronies made the final stop on the Venezuelan-debt gravy train before payments ceased.
  — The Economist, 3 Nov. 2017
• In the meantime, taxpayers, who financed those debts, were left holding the bag while many high-earning borrowers rode the gravy train.
  — Beth Akers, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• Kevin’s gravy train will end soon which probably explains the timing of these hurtful statements...
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 7 Aug. 2022
• Moore’s real threat is to partisan election lawfare and the gravy train that the Elias Law Group, 70 attorneys strong, is riding.
  — David B. Rivkin Jr. and Jason Snead, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2022
• People and business of every description hopped aboard this gravy train.
  — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• Congressional Democrats frankly do not care whether their gravy train of spending will ever be financed.
  — Daniel J. Pilla, National Review, 29 Sep. 2021
• Wall Street has a significant stake in keeping the mutual fund gravy train moving.
  — Andrew Lanoie, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
• Then someone tips off the customs officers, and the gravy train comes to a screeching halt: Two male accomplices fall overboard and die, and all but one of the women is arrested.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Aug. 2023
• That gravy train of news slowed down this week at baseball’s winter meetings, where the Brewers failed to sign a free agent or make a trade over four days that were slow in personnel moves in general.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2017
• The Google Photos gravy train will leave the station next summer, the company announced earlier today.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 11 Nov. 2020
• The trick is to make sure this spending is a bona fide public investment, not an unproductive gravy train for friends of the White House or legislators or for Jeff Bezos.
  — Robert Hockett, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2020
• Over the past few years, though, that gravy train has begun to dry up, a trend that accelerated as Trump began to make good on promises to restrict immigration.
  — David Rovella, Bloomberg.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• Image Alabama’s governor has begun to cut off a gravy train for the state’s sheriffs: the unspent money for prisoners’ meals that the sheriffs have long been allowed to keep for themselves.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 11 July 2018
• The company has become increasingly dependent for growth on its discount Nordstrom Rack chain, an off-price gravy train that some experts fear could threaten the cachet of the main brand.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 25 May 2018
• But when yield-seeking institutions filled their capacity for mortgage CDO notes, the bankers convinced their firms to warehouse the leftovers on their own balance sheets to keep the gravy train of placement revenues on the tracks.
  — Daniel J. Arbess, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
• Still, the gravy train continued, and seven months later, the Republican majority was thrown out of Congress in what was at the time its worst defeat since Watergate.
  — Brian Riedl, National Review, 2 Mar. 2021
• Other potential casualties of such a ban would be things close to his heart: his populist campaign promises, and a financial gravy train for culture warriors in Europe and in the United States.
  — New York Times, 19 May 2022

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024