How to Use profit in a Sentence

profit

1 of 2 noun

• There was a rise in profits this year.
• Profits are up from last year.
• The company made a profit this year.
• The book can be read with profit by anyone who wants to understand how the system works.
• The organization is not run for profit.
• The profits from CD sales were donated to charity.
• But the twist is Ozark Beer takes no profit from the deal.
  — John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 25 June 2023
• The new rules would drop the requirement down to just $600 in profit.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 22 Nov. 2023
• This group has never been all that fussed with being able to make a profit.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 20 Feb. 2024
• The war in Ukraine was a major reason why U.S. oil majors raked in record profits last year.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
• And our service business is 60% of our revenue and 90% of our profits.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024
• How many of these services would survive, let alone turn a profit?
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• For this industry to work, all parties need to make a profit.
  — Matt Hutchinson, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
• The profits then go straight to the studio in the form of fee payments, so that, on paper, the subsidiary never makes any profit.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 19 July 2023
• Yet for firms that are successful, there are huge profits ahead.
  — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 10 May 2023
• The increase in value will continue to earn them a profit.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2024
• The oil and gas companies are making record profits, and not enough of that goes back into this effort.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• The visual inspiration platform swung to a profit of a penny a share, from a year ago loss of 10 cents a share.
  — WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
• Before the law, taxes were owed only on profits that were brought into the United States.
  — Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• The company's profit compared with a loss of $19 million a year earlier and worked out to 18 cents per share.
  — David Koenig, ajc, 9 May 2023
• The automakers, which are making billions in profits, have dismissed the UAW’s wish list.
  — Tom Krisher, oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2023
• Lenders' profits tend to decline when the economy is slowing down.
  — Akane Otani, WSJ, 2 June 2023
• Our demands were nothing short of changing the values of a whole system — to put people over profit.
  — Carmiel Banasky, Variety, 28 Oct. 2023
• The spice company's quarterly profit fell from a year ago.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2023
• So Musk is free to tweet doggy memes for fun or profit and, for anyone inclined to buy Dogecoin for the hell of it, knock yourselves out.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 20 July 2023
• Wall Street, no longer enamored of subscriber numbers, wants to see profit, too.
  — Jake Coyle, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023
• To keep the product—and the profits—rolling, Subaru has ramped up the supply chain with an international approach.
  — Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 9 May 2023
• Most of the sales profit, 80%, went directly to Tsui’s company and into his bank account, the complaint says.
  — Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
• Google is about to launch its grand plan to block third-party cookies in Chrome that many websites use to track your activity across the web for profit.
  — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2023
• But amid no track record of streaming profits at Hollywood giants and WBD’s need to pay down debt and manage costs, some wonder about the future of streaming profits.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2024

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profit

2 of 2 verb

• The island profits from tourism.
• It would profit him to take some computer classes.
• The company has profited by selling its products online.
• He profited greatly from his investments.
• Kuo says Largan cannot profit from the deal at this price.
  — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• If the lot sells for over that price, the guarantor stands to profit.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2023
• And who should have the right to use and potentially profit from the work?
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
• But that doesn’t mean those who led the way greatly profited over the years ahead.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2024
• And, in a roundabout way, wildebeests would profit, too, as part of the greater ecosystem.
  — Tarpley Hitt, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
• The affidavit doesn’t say if Ross profited from the sales.
  — oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2023
• Elmore believes the thieves stole the tower to profit from selling the metal.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2024
• The problem is the way Saperstein profits off that mythology.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Apr. 2023
• The Navajo Nation now says its members should have the right to profit off of those fossil fuels.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• James' office says the Trumps profited by at least $250 million through the fraud, and are asking the judge to award the state an equivalent amount.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2023
• The promoters at the top of the pyramid tend to profit, while the newer members at the bottom are likely to lose money.
  — Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2023
• Some are trafficked by strangers, but most know the person who is profiting off their bodies.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• So far, there haven’t been any protests, not even from the economic old guard who most profit from opacity.
  — WIRED, 10 July 2023
• Most of the executives hoping to profit off AI are in a similar state of mind.
  — Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
• Billionaires were profiting from the failure of businesses and the loss of thousands of jobs.
  — Rebecca Angelo, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• Vaughn said law firms have found a way to profit from the legal threats by helping companies with DEI issues.
  — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
• Plenty of people have profited from shorting, but the case against it is compelling.
  — The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 4 June 2023
• The Pence campaign found a way to profit, literally, from all the fresh attention.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• The real Monica is someone who really doesn't want to be our friend, but wants to profit from our lives and our pain.
  — Cady Lang, TIME, 3 Jan. 2024
• The Netflix formula was simple: spend its way to profit.
  — Peter Biskind, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2023
• Many took to social media to voice their opinions, with some accusing the ad of trying to profit off of school shootings.
  — Jenna Malinowski, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2023
• This suit exposes the culture that permitted him and the Academy to profit for years.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
• The law, which is intended to prevent criminals from profiting from their crimes, was used against Delvey in 2019.
  — Town & Country, 30 June 2023
• In the meantime, there's fear residents will sell their land to outsiders who want to rebuild and profit off the territory.
  — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023
• In the new survey, almost half of managers (48%) reported that their companies would profit from replacing swaths of human workers with tools.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
• Initial hopes about how much revenue and profit a cannabis retailer could make, Snyder said, were unrealistic.
  — Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024

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