EARNINGS in a Sentence

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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.

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 Meanings and Examples of EARNINGS
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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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  And what she could earn seemed so pitiably small.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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)
16  It's difficult to earn a livelihood as an artist.
17  Door - to - door salesmen usually have a low basic wage and earn most of their money on commission.
18  Women's salaries are low vis-a-vis what men earn for the same work.
19  Even one minute's lateness would earn a stern rebuke.
20  Many women earn less than their male colleagues.
21  His main mission in life is to earn as much money as possible.
22  His one object in life is to earn as much money as possible.
23  The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweet.
24  Our Affiliate programs empower our associates to earn commissions and receive ticket discounts.
25  In order to earn a graduate degree from many of our universities, a candidate is frequently required to prepare a dissertation on some scholarly subject.
26  I want to earn a bike, I need it to mobilize myself in the city, from my house to the office.
27  I wish to foster, not to blight -- to earn gratitude, not to wring tears of blood -- no, nor of brine: my harvest must be in smiles, in endearments, in sweet -- That will do.
28  During the summer hiatus, many students try to earn enough money to pay their tuition for the next school year.
29  Dawson Ko, 24, received his black belt in karate in March 2007, making him the first blind person in Australia to earn a black belt.
30  I shall continue to act as Adele's governess; by that I shall earn my board and lodging, and thirty pounds a year besides.