How to Use margin in a Sentence

margin

1 of 2 noun

• Please write your name in the left margin of the page.
• Mountains lie at the city's northern margins.
• My copy has stars all over the margins.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
• That margin is about the width of his stick.
  — Murat Ates, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
• Again, that just makes that margin tighter.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
• Yin said the margins were close in the third round.
  — ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026
• In a game with the slimmest of margins, that was enough.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
• The Rams are, by a thin margin.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
• But 70% is still a healthy margin.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
• Soon the margin was in the 30s.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
• Prop 50 passed by a two-to-one margin.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
• All that remains are her notes in the margins.
  — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
• The first two were Tilly wins, but wafer-thin margins.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 22 Feb. 2026
• That margin of error might’ve been just one game.
  — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Mar. 2026
• The margin for error is so small.
  — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
• Way too cheap, our margins are lousy, you guys are idiots.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
• What is that Cost Plus a margin?
  — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
• Collins again made one of two from the line for the final margin.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Feb. 2026
• Restaurants do run on very thin margins.
  — Connie Ogle updated May 27, Miami Herald, 27 May 2026
• Brazil should edge it, but a one-goal margin is easy to imagine.
  — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 29 June 2026
• What’s more, both teams won their games by the exact same margin.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 20 Mar. 2026
• Their margin for error is slim.
  — Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 5 Apr. 2026
• Won the turnover margin by seven.
  — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
• This franchise wins in the margins!
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026
• In short, no margin, no mission.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• The measure passed by a margin of nearly two to one.
  — Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
• Both ran against her in 2023 but lost by a wide margin.
  — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
• To me, the margin between these teams in that regard is slim.
  — Eden Laase, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
• This would have come at the expense of their margins and profits.
  — John Choong, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• Have your margins increased yet?
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2026

margin

2 of 2 verb

• Teapot margins collapse within six to nine months.
  — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 3 Jan. 2026
• The Dodgers are still trying to figure out what margins, if any, there are for an edge.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 3 June 2026
• This isn’t the first time Son has linked IPO mandates to margin loans.
  — Ruth David, Bloomberg.com, 16 Feb. 2022
• The company’s strong pricing has also continued to raise its paint stores margin growth.
  — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 30 Apr. 2025
• Crypto financial products range from stocks and mutual funds to margin loans and bank deposits.
  — Jay Clayton, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
• Many of those retail investors who entered the market turned to margin trading to make risky moves in 2020.
  — Joe Walsh, Forbes, 6 July 2021
• Headline beat, but margins missed expectations.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Apr. 2026
• Favorable product margin rates and lower supply chain costs were also margin drivers.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• The analysts are also looking out for management to detail a path to margin expansion.
  — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 8 June 2025
• Such a combination could result in more competition for Uber and thus lead to margin pressures in the future.
  — Gurufocus, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
• E-commerce is maybe tapped into as a bonus benefit in case someone lands on their site or is done through a partner with very little oversight or control, let alone margin.
  — Brandon Amoroso, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• For a platform with millions of merchants, a stablecoin that lowers acceptance costs and returns reserve income on idle balances goes straight to margin.
  — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• Of course, should the company’s sales grow and/or margins expand, the impact of the buyback would be even more impactful, giving shareholders a greater claim to the larger profit.
  — CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
• Wall Street analysts are bracing for a volatile road ahead for CoreWeave as its massive infrastructure ramp pressures margins and drives up costs.
  — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
• Algorithms can test thousands of demand and margin scenarios, while humans inject judgment about brand, relationships and ethics.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
• That gives retailers a much clearer picture of pricing thresholds and margin opportunities than waiting to see how a product performs at markdown.
  — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 10 June 2026
• When volumes increase—precisely the moment producers will want to seize as imports get more expensive—the inefficiencies in those systems drive costs up and margins down.
  — Andrea Hill, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Additionally, the firm likes Uber’s profitability setup, free cash flow potential and margin upside.
  — Michael Bloom, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2025
• Factors such as product mix and revenue management, as well as better demand planning helped, and the company will now double down on segments that are accretive to margin such as e-commerce and skincare.
  — Kevin Rozario, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• Tuesday’s full-year results should help alleviate those fears and provide a clearer path toward a return to growth and margin expansion in the fashion and leather goods division, Citi said.
  — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
• Even so, Melius Research analyst Scott Davis has argued there’s no structural reason that margins can’t return to the mid-teen levels of yesteryear.
  — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• Executives said that changes to margin and cost strategies will be the second-most important theme shaping the industry in 2026 — second only to trade disruptions like tariffs, the report found.
  — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 20 May 2026
• Analysts on the company's quarterly call Tuesday were concerned about lackluster growth internationally and margin compression that was more in line with competitors.
  — Michael Wayland, CNBC, 26 May 2026
• That shift allows the team’s judgment to be used for decisions that actually require it (such as capital allocation, scenario planning and margin analysis), instead of being absorbed by the work of producing inputs.
  — Aaron Levine, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• Conclusion In conclusion, ServiceNow continues to be a leading software provider, with steady revenue growth, strong cash flow, and margins that many enterprise software competitors would envy.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Significant strategic initiatives included a shift towards an asset-light model, increasing imports, and expanding the vendor network, which contributed to margin expansion.
  — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2025
• The initiative reflects a broader strategy of owning customer experience end-to-end, controlling merchandising, branding, and margin without splitting the category spotlight.
  — Brian Delp, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• Microsoft highlights productivity gains and organizational change, but there isn’t a focus on tying AI adoption to margin improvement, cost reduction, or payback periods.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 11 May 2026
• This dynamic contributes to margin protection, particularly in competitive sectors where pricing flexibility is constrained.
  — Rafael Moiseev, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026
• Energy equities offer inflation protection If oil remains elevated, energy companies benefit from stronger cash flow and relative defensiveness versus sectors more exposed to margin pressure from fuel costs.
  — Tony Zhang, CNBC, 10 June 2026