Examples of cash cow in a Sentence

The football team was a cash cow for the university. The movie studio saw the actress as a cash cow.

Recent Examples on the Web Obviously, the options market was a cash cow for Robinhood, compared with the stock market. — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021 Porsche is a veritable cash cow for Volkswagen, earning one of the industry’s highest returns on sales, and contributing nearly 40 percent of the group’s overall €10.6 billion underlying operating profits last year. — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 14 June 2021 The event should be a cash cow for the Fort Worth area. — Dallas News, 5 June 2021 Florida football, the UAA’s cash cow, generated more than $87.4 million in revenues in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020. — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 11 June 2021 Discovery was making the same calculation, as the cash cow of pay TV is being eclipsed by streaming. — Dawn Chmielewski, Forbes, 19 May 2021 The move — a potential cash cow for the teams involved but also one that would shut out nearly all of Europe — has been met with condemnation from many European soccer fans as well as from the continent’s power structure. — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021 Then there’s the case of Amazon, a tech firm whose e-commerce business is barely profitable but whose cloud services business is a cash cow. — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 10 June 2021 The unprecedented cancellation of the Bowl’s season last year translated into a massive loss of ticket revenue for the L.A. Phil, which uses its summer cash cow to help pay for the ambitious programs in Disney Hall. — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2021

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