INCOME in a Sentence

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It is certainly an unpleasant thing," replied Mr. Dashwood, "to have those kind of yearly drains on one's income.

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 Meanings and Examples of INCOME
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income
 n.  gain from labor, business, property, or capital
Classic Sentence: (68 in 5 pages)
1  The prospect of four thousand a-year, in addition to his present income, besides the remaining half of his own mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
2  It is certainly an unpleasant thing," replied Mr. Dashwood, "to have those kind of yearly drains on one's income.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
3  "And yet two thousand a-year is a very moderate income," said Marianne.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
4  But it is not to be imagined that she lives up to her income.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
5  I insist on you hearing the whole of it," he replied, "My fortune was never large, and I had always been expensive, always in the habit of associating with people of better income than myself.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44
6  His demands and your inexperience together, on a small, very small income, must have brought on distresses which would not be the LESS grievous to you, from having been entirely unknown and unthought of before.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47
7  Edward was not entirely without hopes of some favourable change in his mother towards him; and on THAT he rested for the residue of their income.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49
8  This certainly had not a profitable appearance, and I shook my head as if I would imply that it would be difficult to lay by much accumulative capital from such a source of income.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
9  Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
10  Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
11  Let him have his little income, and come and live with me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
12  Reminding him of the fact, that Mr. Peggotty derived a steady, though certainly a very moderate income from the bequest of his late brother-in-law, I promised to do so.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
13  I make a respectable income by it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
14  Altogether, I am well off, when I tell my income on the fingers of my left hand, I pass the third finger and take in the fourth to the middle joint.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
15  In all matters affecting income, the sales of timber, wheat, and wool, the letting of lands, Vronsky was hard as a rock, and knew well how to keep up prices.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 25
Example Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
16  While searching for a way to augment the family income, she began making dolls.
17  They have the world's largest per capita income.
18  You have to suit your spending to your income.
19  He supplements his ordinary income by writing books.
20  The interest is exempt from income tax.
21  The extra income has meant Phillippa can tuck away the rent.
22  Reduction in the tax on unearned income could be a boost for small businesses.
23  The purchasing power of people living on investment income has fallen as interest rates have gone down.
24  His large income enabled him to live in comfort.
25  The money I get from teaching the piano is a useful supplement to my ordinary income.
26  The increase in indirect taxation is intended to neutralise the reduction in income tax.
27  Savings have been disposed of in order to meet the growing gap between income and expenditure.
28  A regressive tax, like the poll tax, takes proportionately more of a poor person's income.
29  A large income is not necessary for the full enjoyment of life.
30  Many families on a low income are dependent on state support.