How to Use profitable in a Sentence

profitable

adjective

• The movie was very profitable.
• Here are the most profitable cities in the country to host an Airbnb.
  — Marcus Reichley, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024
• The chain has said about a quarter of its U.S. stores aren’t profitable.
  — Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 15 Oct. 2024
• The label is profitable in its 15M subs who pay as much as $9 apiece.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2024
• That type of rental agreement turned out to be quite profitable.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
• In fact, in-person traffic is still the most profitable point of sale.
  — Peter Green, Quartz, 28 July 2024
• The cuts will also free up aircraft to fly more profitable routes.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2024
• In historic Boston, then, the question was how to make the past profitable.
  — Seth C. Bruggeman / Made By History, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
• The endgame is not what is best for the welfare of the child, but to maintain a highly profitable business.
  — Laura Goetz, STAT, 3 Mar. 2023
• Nine of the list’s 20 most profitable companies were banks.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 June 2024
• The plant builds the highly profitable Super Duty trucks.
  — Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2024
• Cars with all-wheel drive make up a profitable niche for brands like Subaru and Audi.
  — Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 13 July 2023
• But the company has been mum on whether any of the tools are profitable when compared with the cost of running them.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2024
• Since taking over, Musk has gone to great lengths to make Twitter profitable.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 31 May 2023
• Paul has been one of the most successful and profitable YouTubers since 2013.
  — Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 14 June 2024
• At the same time, the typical nursing home is profitable.
  — Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
• Other bagels on the menu are more profitable, and offset the Rivington.
  — Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
• Disney has promised investors that Disney+ will be profitable by the end of fiscal 2024.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• On has been profitable for the past three quarters; Allbirds hasn’t turned a net profit just yet.
  — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
• Tenev says that, in both cases, the offerings are designed to be profitable for the company in the longer term.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
• Crude flattery, of course — and quite profitable for Volodin, who two years later became the speaker of the Duma.
  — Leon Aron, National Review, 11 Nov. 2023
• Both shows, as live events, are wildly profitable to begin with.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2023
• The pricing of the PS5 Pro also looks like it’s designed to be profitable from day one, instead of months or years later.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 11 Sep. 2024
• Gates has been profitable eight years in a row, with handsome profits some years and mediocre ones in others.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Levin recently announced that the 2024 RTX would be canceled — and told staff that the event has never been profitable.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
• At-the-money calendar spreads like this one are most profitable if the stock lands at the strike price on the expiration date.
  — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
• This community just outside one of the most profitable oil basins in the world is one of 19 small towns across America of the same name.
  — Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2024
• Ford dodged an autoworker strike at its most profitable plant.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2024
• Vine wasn’t even profitable, and the company’s standing with Twitter was shaky.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• While sales of Douro table wines are rising, those of port wines — which are more profitable — have fallen steadily in recent years because of changing consumer habits.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune Europe, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024