How to Use profitable in a Sentence

profitable

adjective

• The movie was very profitable.
• Here are the most profitable cities in the country to host an Airbnb.
  — Marcus Reichley, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024
• The cuts will also free up aircraft to fly more profitable routes.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2024
• The plant builds the highly profitable Super Duty trucks.
  — Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2024
• Cars with all-wheel drive make up a profitable niche for brands like Subaru and Audi.
  — Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 13 July 2023
• Since taking over, Musk has gone to great lengths to make Twitter profitable.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 31 May 2023
• Other bagels on the menu are more profitable, and offset the Rivington.
  — Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
• Tenev says that, in both cases, the offerings are designed to be profitable for the company in the longer term.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
• Crude flattery, of course — and quite profitable for Volodin, who two years later became the speaker of the Duma.
  — Leon Aron, National Review, 11 Nov. 2023
• Both shows, as live events, are wildly profitable to begin with.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2023
• Gates has been profitable eight years in a row, with handsome profits some years and mediocre ones in others.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Levin recently announced that the 2024 RTX would be canceled — and told staff that the event has never been profitable.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
• Ford dodged an autoworker strike at its most profitable plant.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2024
• Vine wasn’t even profitable, and the company’s standing with Twitter was shaky.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• The three young men had now, finally, hit their stride with a truly profitable and stealthy form of cybercrime.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• This group is more profitable: 54% more innovators achieved net profit margins of 10% or greater than the rest of the market.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
• The cost and commitment were high, and our energy needed to be focused on profitable growth.
  — Suzanne Bates, Quartz, 26 May 2023
• Airlines want to keep these fees as profitable as possible.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Apr. 2024
• Year after year these are some of the most profitable companies in America.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 7 Feb. 2024
• Fourteen of the 22 Bunny Portfolios have been profitable, and 11 have beaten the index.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• But the end of slavery and changing weather patterns made rice-farming less profitable.
  — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
• Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, higher prices have meant that a greater swathe of fossil-fuel projects are profitable.
  — Justin Worland, TIME, 19 Oct. 2023
• Like Spirit, JetBlue has not had a profitable year since 2019, before the pandemic.
  — David Koenig, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
• Oil and gas companies are still posting profitable numbers, but experts say the market has hit a wall.
  — Irving Mejia-Hilario, Dallas News, 6 July 2023
• The struggles led to layoffs in 2021 as well as to product price hikes and cuts to promotional spending and some of its less profitable customers.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2024
• And many of them are being more cautious about their cloud costs, leading to a slowdown in one of Amazon’s profitable businesses.
  — Haleluya Hadero, oregonlive, 13 June 2023
• And many of them are being more cautious about their cloud costs, leading to a slowdown in one of Amazon's profitable businesses.
  — Haleluya Hadero, ajc, 13 June 2023
• Moderation has proven to be a weak spot of just about every social network, even those that are very profitable.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2024
• Disney is aiming to make its overall streaming services business profitable by the end of 2024.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2024
• Revenue and attendance were up about one-third last year compared with 2022, the year Barry’s became profitable again.
  — Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024