How to Use business in a Sentence

business

noun

• He has the skills necessary to run a business.
• She works in the publishing business.
• Do we have any other business we need to discuss?
• The town is trying to attract new businesses.
• The store has lost a significant amount of business since the factory closed.
• Their publishing company is the best in the business.
• David has decided to go into business with his brother.
• They advertised to increase business.
• No, I didn't ask him what he wanted the car for. That's his business.
• I have to go to New York City on business next week.
• Lancaster and Columbia have plenty of history apart from the Civil War, of course. For example, Lancaster was home to F. W. Woolworth's first successful 5&10 and Milton S. Hershey's first successful candy business.
  — Lancaster New Era, 2 July 1996
• This isn't the first time the business has been on the road.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 27 Jan. 2023
• But baseball is a tough business at the end of the day.
  — Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2023
• But first, this kid is business in the front, party in the back.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2022
• The lawyers talk to business people who talk to the PR folks, who talk to the media.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
• The cost would be high, but a deal like that would be more in line with the way the Guards do business.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 30 July 2022
• The drought of business forced her to lay off 170 staff members.
  — Jay Heflin, Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2020
• Your body and your goals are your business, and no one else’s.
  — SELF, 10 Jan. 2019
• And Ross has made more money in the same business as Trump.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• Séramy said his business was one of the early victims of the crises.
  — Anna Rabemanantsoa, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2023
• Here, even tourists get caught up in the flow of business as usual.
  — Anna Winger, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2016
• Lastly, some good news from the evil realm of business.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 8 Feb. 2019
• Hopkins says her business has tripled in the past three years.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 July 2022
• Zien said the stand was a way to dip his toe into the restaurant business.
  — Michele Parente, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 July 2018
• Apartments are on one side, and a business on the other.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
• This dress is all business in the front and party in the back, thanks to its open-back design.
  — Bianca Rodriguez, Town & Country, 6 Jan. 2023
• Who knew blowing up half the cast would be good for business?
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 17 July 2017
• Where the music business is today, there has to be room for all of it.
  — Eben Shapiro, Time, 7 Feb. 2021
• That’s when Dad decided to get out of the ski business.
  — Tim Woodward, idahostatesman, 20 Apr. 2018
• But that doesn’t mean bill-paying is a bad business to be in.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 28 Apr 2024