How to Use profitable in a Sentence

profitable

adjective

• The movie was very profitable.
• 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
• The investments have dried up, and every single project needs to be profitable in order to survive.
  — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
• Both filmmakers agreed that the genre has to keep being freshened up to stay profitable or else audiences will just get bored.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 17 Apr. 2024
• This is the strategy that has helped my team focus its energies on profitable fronts and achieve revenue targets.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• The disclosure did not offer insight into whether the properties were profitable.
  — Ivana Saric, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024
• The rich and most profitable corporations aren’t just contributing less and less to our collective coffers.
  — Rakeen Mabud, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
• In time, an equilibrium is restored, whereby mining becomes profitable again for those able to absorb the initial blow.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 19 Apr. 2024
• Paramount can no longer justify carrying that much overhead for assets that are melting ice cubes – still profitable now, but shrinking rather than growing.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
• The return on assets indicates how profitable a company is in relation to total assets.
  — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• While Blackstone employees support Sheehy’s campaign, the firm itself is in the process of exiting its profitable stake in Bridger.
  — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
• Those bargain basement deals are squeezing profit margins, though the company remains profitable and still sells more EVs than other automakers.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• Here are the most profitable cities in the country to host an Airbnb.
  — Marcus Reichley, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Other bagels on the menu are more profitable, and offset the Rivington.
  — Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 27 June 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
• 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
• 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
• The three young men had now, finally, hit their stride with a truly profitable and stealthy form of cybercrime.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024