How to Use six-figure in a Sentence

six-figure

adjective
  • Hitting the six-figure income mark is a dream for a lot of workers.
    Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 13 July 2023
  • Sure, $60 seems steep for a baseball cap, but not compared to the four-, five- and six-figure works on view beyond the check-in desk.
    Alison Brower, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Gone was a six-figure payday if Ohtani didn’t want to exchange anything for the ball.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Now, there’s a discrepancy on the amount of the six-figure wager.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 16 Aug. 2024
  • He's got a fancy car, a six-figure salary and a penthouse in the gleaming Canary Wharf.
    Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 24 June 2024
  • Hannington said his side would ask the city for attorneys’ fees in the six-figure range.
    Emma Platoff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • Our small firm, with less than five employees, faces a six-figure tax bill under the new rule.
    Rayana Marker, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • At $140 a pop, the shoes are a lot more affordable than a six-figure Jacob & Co. creation, too.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Transfer three or four million dollars in an IRA, and Robinhood is on the hook for a six-figure match.
    Rob Berger, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Plus, if that’s not enough to deter you, the FAA has in the past levied six-figure fines against belligerent passengers.
    Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 July 2023
  • In the past, a lower six-figure salary would place most people in a comfortable place in their lives, but not anymore.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Shohei Ohtani inducted one lucky fan into the six-figure club.
    Erica Messick, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Catch up quick: In late 2022, Parker gave up her six-figure salary as a council member to run for mayor.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Kim used a portion of her six-figure earnings from her YouTube channel to cover her portion of the down payment on the house.
    Cheyenne Devon,eric Clark, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2024
  • After a three-week bidding war, Little, Brown snapped it up in a six-figure contract.
    Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Leave it to Jay-Z to casually flex a six-figure Patek Philippe courtside.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Mar. 2024
  • He was named alongside 70 others when the crowdsourced spreadsheet caught steam in the early days of the #MeToo movement and said the settlement is in the six-figure range.
    Melinda French Gates, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The Pinnacle is the fanciest trim and approaches the six-figure mark.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2023
  • New data shows that even those studying at Ivy League schools aren’t guaranteed a six-figure salary.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 10 June 2024
  • Palomar’s six-figure offer, though, appears to be toward the upper end of the spectrum.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Some of Princess Diana's intimate letters have sold for a six-figure sum.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Amid her 2013 divorce from ex-husband William Stewart, Haddish was asked to pay a six-figure tab for a stranger’s wedding.
    Mark Gray, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Ecco bought the novel in an auction, with a six-figure advance, and positioned it as one of their big debuts of 2022.
    Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Friends like Jim Amerman have tried to talk Hooks into a career change, offering to connect him to a sales job that pays a six-figure salary.
    Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 30 July 2023
  • To make the six-figure offer more palatable, Suiter said the city has added a signing bonus that — for the right candidate — is negotiable.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • About one in three people earning six-figure salaries are concerned about paying their bills, a new survey found.
    Daniel Wine, CNN, 26 June 2024
  • The winner's caddie can easily go home with a six-figure paycheck after four days of work.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Officials expect the six-figure ripoff figure to grow and more arrests to follow.
    Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Within weeks of taking office, Price’s office hired her longtime boyfriend to a six-figure job in its resentencing unit.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Google had just acquired DeepMind, and tech companies were hiring machine learning specialists at high six-figure salaries.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024

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