How to Use unprofitable in a Sentence

unprofitable

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• MissFresh has been unprofitable for the past three years.
  — Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• And some of those deals have inevitably been unprofitable.
  — Vulture, 2 May 2023
• For the fifth year in a row, the first quarter has been an unprofitable one for the airline industry.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 17 June 2024
• But the farms are expensive to set up and take a long time to expand, so many are unprofitable.
  — Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• That deal marked the start of a turnaround, as unprofitable and non-core businesses were shed.
  — Kurt Schussler, Bloomberg.com, 15 Dec. 2020
• The company was also unprofitable for eight of the last 10 years.
  — Ryan Mac, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• Among the reasons is that hedging costs have made deals unprofitable, traders say.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2022
• The last time unprofitable tech companies went public at this rate was in 2000, the year the dot-com bubble burst.
  — Rani Molla, Vox, 20 June 2019
• The truth, though, is that many penny stocks are tied to tiny, shaky — or shady — companies that are unprofitable.
  — Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2022
• Last year, the five most unprofitable companies cost the state more than $50 million.
  — Daria Mitiuk, New York Times, 12 June 2024
• Last year, 81 percent of the ventures that went public had been unprofitable the year before.
  — James P. Sutton, National Review, 12 July 2019
• But many of those customers could be unprofitable Prime customers like me.
  — Alana Semuels, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2018
• Now, the unprofitable startup will have to push any potential IPO plans further down the road.
  — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
• Noma was last unprofitable in 2017, when Redzepi closed the restaurant for about a year to build out its new location.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 29 June 2022
• That is quite the feat for a company that, as of a year ago, was expected to be unprofitable until at least 2024.
  — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 6 May 2021
• This makes as-of-yet unprofitable firms deemed 'growth stocks' less attractive.
  — Ivana Pino, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2023
• For many large, unprofitable start-ups, this will be the first true test of whether their businesses can withstand a downturn.
  — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
• That event marked a turn in sentiment around high-profile-but-unprofitable tech start-ups, many of which had burned cash for years in the pursuit of growth.
  — Katie Benner, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2019
• But just in case, Brex, which is unprofitable, has stockpiled money.
  — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• The filing would help the retailer close unprofitable stores.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 29 Aug. 2019
• Then there was the awkward and unprofitable Cornish hen tabaka, for which Dolinsky flattened a small bird with a brick in a cast-iron pan.
  — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2021
• About half of these subsidies were then used to fish in grounds that would otherwise be unprofitable.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2022
• Even if the airlines are unprofitable, the argument goes, the economy will gain.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• Then again, if the nature of the game is to keep users glued to their apps for as long as possible, this option would be considered unprofitable.
  — Rahul Raj, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2023
• Houston had the largest share of unprofitable businesses last year, a report found.
  — Erin Douglas, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2019
• Disney+ remains unprofitable, although the company has vowed to change that by next year.
  — Brooks Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
• Many of the locations to be shuttered are too old to be remodeled or are in unprofitable areas, Dunn said.
  — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
• Why does Prince own companies, some of them clearly unprofitable, all over the country?
  — Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2022
• This led to the elimination of nearly $40 million worth of unprofitable product sales.
  — Robert Gorin, WWD, 30 Oct. 2024
• While Meta changed its name in 2022 to reflect its strategic shift toward the metaverse, that part of the company continues to be an unprofitable project designed to help future-proof the overall business.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024