EARNINGS in a Sentence

Learn EARNINGS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
171 example sentences for EARNINGS, such as:
1. He claimed compensation for loss of earnings.
2. And what she could earn seemed so pitiably small.
3. And I can't even go off and earn my living again.
4. That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.
5. And I am perfectly well able to earn my own living.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of EARNINGS
earnings
 n.  the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
 n.  something that remunerates
Classic Sentence: (108 in 8 pages)
1  The mismanagement of the state road especially infuriated the taxpayers for, out of the earnings of the road, was to come the money for free schools.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
2  The bank is the universal government credit-account, the ledger in which every individual's earnings and spendings are balanced.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
3  Furniture maker; twenty years in the city; worth ten thousand dollars, all his own earnings; a Baptist.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  She had promised to love him for better or worse, and then she, his wife, had reproached him with his poverty, after spending his earnings recklessly.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
5  The utmost I hope is, to save money enough out of my earnings to set up a school some day in a little house rented by myself.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  In order, however, that our superior position might not be compromised thereby, a money-box was kept on the kitchen mantel-shelf, in to which it was publicly made known that all my earnings were dropped.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
7  He had calculated that his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to a hundred and seventy-one francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
8  When the war was over, a plantation could earn an honest living.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  Scarlett did not realize that all the rules of the game had been changed and that honest labor could no longer earn its just reward.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  And what she could earn seemed so pitiably small.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  And I am perfectly well able to earn my own living.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  And I can't even go off and earn my living again.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
13  , I had to earn part of my way, and when I wasn't doing that or studying, I guess I was roughhousing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  She will be glad to earn something, and it will be a good time to end misunderstandings.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
15  Robert is very well in a way, to give up all the money he can earn to the family, and keep the barest pittance for himself.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  He declined to make projections about fourth quarter earnings.
2  Isetan will announce details on the loss by May, when it reports earnings for the fiscal year ending in March.
3  Benefit is calculated on the basis of average weekly earnings.
4  Apart from his earnings as a football coach, he also owns and runs a chain of sports shops.
5  Lisbon's foreign earnings have been badly hurt by the drastic drop in tourism.
6  At the highest executive levels earnings and performance aren't always correlated.
7  There has been a falling-off in box office income and other earnings.
8  Insurance contributions are paid at a fixed percentage rate on all earnings.
9  Pensions should be increased annually in line with earnings or prices, whichever is the higher.
10  He claimed compensation for loss of earnings.
11  Women's earnings are still low in relation to men's.
12  For example, suppose a researcher wishes to determine the influence of military service on later civilian earnings.
13  That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.
14  The utmost I hope is, to save money enough out of my earnings to set up a school someday in a little house.
15  He will always be a slave who knows not how to earn and save.