How to Use at a profit in a Sentence

at a profit

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  • Over time, more than 200 of those acres were sold off at a profit.
    — John W. Beacham, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Both regions can produce oil at a profit for less than $35 a barrel.
    — Bloomberg News, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Some politicians and members of the press may focus on non-fans who bought tickets for the purpose of reselling at a profit.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Avoiding a ‘race to the bottom’ Both models will be sold at a profit, Tavares noted.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Plus, people aren’t only buying art NFTs to resell them at a profit.
    — Jessica Klein, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2024
  • Then that shell company sold the pills to Perrigo in the United States at a profit.
    — Jesse Drucker, New York Times, 7 July 2022
  • This arrangement gave the automakers a steady cash flow to make new cars while the dealers, who bought the cars upfront, worked to sell the finished ones at a profit.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 21 June 2023
  • Once made successful, the properties could potentially be sold at a profit.
    — Paul Flahive, Austin American Statesman, 6 Jan. 2026
  • When a mutual fund sells a position at a profit, it is obliged to distribute the resulting gain to its investors, who then have to pay tax on the gain.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Fix-and-flip loans These loans are used by home flippers, who buy a property, renovate it and then sell it at a profit shortly thereafter.
    — Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Seacrest has a history of buying, renovating, and then selling high-end properties at a profit.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Tax-loss harvesting refers to the practice of selling assets at a loss, to help offset capital gains from investments sold at a profit.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Moreover, with modern technology, there are many ways to repurpose kits into new merchandise that can be sold at a profit.
    — Vitas Carosella, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Private equity firms typically use a large amount of debt to buy companies and properties that the firms then try to sell at a profit after a few years.
    — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The firms typically acquire companies or doctors’ practices using debt and hope to sell them within five to seven years at a profit.
    — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2025
  • In this strategy, an investor sells some investments at a loss to offset portfolio gains that were realized by selling stocks at a profit.
    — Jonathan I. Shenkman, Forbes, 31 July 2022
  • And season ticket holders who are eager to defray high costs could start thinking about selling some tickets at a profit to recoup expenses.
    — Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • More fish flowing through Peter Pan’s production lines would boost earnings so that the company could later be sold at a profit.
    — ProPublica, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Most repeat buyers have benefited in recent years from rising home prices, enabling them to sell their homes at a profit and put the proceeds into their next purchase.
    — Nicole Friedman, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
  • But the researchers’ direct recycling process can run at a profit, generating slightly over $1 per kilogram.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Neighborhood Venture plans to bring in its own operations team, lease up the currently vacant units and then sell the complex in three years at a profit.
    — Jessica Boehm, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Investors who sell stocks at a profit, by comparison, generally face capital gains taxes.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 14 Dec. 2025
  • The market for carbon credits is booming as businesses and investors buy them to offset their emissions or potentially resell them at a profit.
    — Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Rather, private equity funds aim to take control of a business for a relatively short time, restructure it and resell the company at a profit.
    — Chris Morran, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Many of them are able to sell houses in New York or California at a profit and can use the cash to buy new homes with either no mortgage or a very small loan.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Even then, however, the government was able to do so at a profit, punctuating the success of the mineral supply chain initiatives.
    — Duncan Money / Made By History, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025
  • There are certainly private equity success stories in which distressed businesses are turned around and then eventually sold at a profit.
    — Chris Morran, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The county could potentially consolidate some of its many offices there and then sell it later at a profit when the office real estate market recovered.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • This system would be based on governments managing competing, polycentric sovereign wealth funds that aim to provide public services at a profit.
    — James Broughel, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Tony took another job at an industrial bakery and, in three to five years, the couple in their early 60s plan to sell at a profit and move to a cheaper state to comfortably retire.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2022

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