How to Use make a buck in a Sentence
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The best ways to make a buck, spend it, save it, grow it, borrow it, give it or talk about it.
— Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 6 July 2021 -
But the majority of hacks seem to be about selling the data to make a buck.
— Ravi Sen, The Conversation, 13 May 2021 -
Stewart, of course, was but one of the many characters looking to make a buck off tragedy.
— Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022 -
These odds and ends all come from sellers looking to break through and make a buck on Black Friday.
— Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023 -
Small businesses are trying to make a buck while the getting is good.
— William Dunkelberg, Forbes, 8 June 2022 -
Three of the last eight Preakness winners went off at less than even-money, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to make a buck.
— Frank Vespe, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2022 -
For those looking to make a buck selling their wares, 6-foot-long tables can be reserved for $20.
— John Benson, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2021 -
Lots and lots of ideas are floating around about how to leverage generative AI to make a buck.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022 -
So much of our modern moral outrage comes down to trying to hustle to make a buck...or 10 million.
— Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 3 May 2023 -
It was waved by a teenager trying to make a buck getting fans to park in the family driveway.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022 -
When to Use It: Anytime to call in a doe, or during the rut—especially the late rut—to make a buck think there’s a doe and fawns nearby.
— Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 22 Sep. 2020 -
Not all charter schools are out to make a buck, and charters run for profit are not everywhere in the nation.
— Peter Greene, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021 -
The bane of Boy Scouts and cheerleaders out to make a buck, automatic washes handle most of the world's cars.
— Benjamin Hunting, Car and Driver, 11 Nov. 2022 -
New businessmen would appear, anxious to make a buck by catering to the interest in the sport.
— Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 11 Mar. 2022 -
But every fairy tale must have a villain, or at least somebody whose priority is to make a buck.
— Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022 -
Here, Miller thought, was a guy in the richest city in the world, out trying to make a buck in historically disastrous weather.
— Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021 -
All the while, Brandon — and others like him all across the country — have kept the cash moving from donors and businesses to 18-year-old college athletes trying to make a buck.
— Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 May 2022 -
But what's an extra 20 interviews if each one helps a pal make a buck, or tens of thousands of them, or helps to build a carpeted stairway to the next valence of fame?
— Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 23 Feb. 2023 -
But instead of being just a quick way to make a buck, Friday the 13th became one of the longest-running horror franchises ever.
— Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023 -
Private businesses have long had to figure out how to make a buck under threat of being squashed by the authorities.
— New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021 -
Suddenly, day traders trying to make a buck saw themselves as enacting revenge for 2008.
— James McElroy, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2021 -
Spann’s lawyer, meanwhile, told the jury in his closing remarks that Spann was just like any other drug dealer or hustler trying to make a buck on the West Side, not some powerful boss who called the shots.
— Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2021 -
This speculative boom is, in a sense, something internet entrepreneurs have been doing for decades: buying up domain names to make a buck.
— Scott Nover, Quartz, 16 Aug. 2022 -
However, de Melo also underscored that the drug trade in the Middle East is far from clear cut, and enemies often work together to make a buck.
— Fox News, 9 July 2020 -
People have a major interest in continuing to pump satellites into orbit to make life better down below and maybe make a buck or two along the way.
— Ike Morgan | Imorgan@al.com, al, 7 Dec. 2020 -
Most nursing homes are for-profit, and private equity firms are increasingly gobbling them up to make a buck at the expense of residents.
— The Editors, Scientific American, 21 June 2021 -
The major social-media and tech companies have already done their share to pervert civil discourse and shatter consensus and squelch reason, all to make a buck.
— Sam Lipsyte, Harper's Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022 -
Turning masks into a status symbol is nothing new, nor is capitalizing on a disaster to make a buck.
— Nicole Wetsman, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2021 -
The franchise is absolutely crawling with demons — and therefore crawling with opportunities to make a buck.
— Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023 -
Love Has Won might have even adopted Q-Anon and other conspiracies in vogue to cynically drive livestream traffic, recruit members, and make a buck off donations.
— God Was A Livestreamer, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2023
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