How to Use money pit in a Sentence

money pit

noun

• The act has become a slow moving bureaucratic money pit.
  — Vincent Turley, Hartford Courant, 21 Aug. 2025
• Many assume its American branch is a similar money pit.
  — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026
• Strategies + Advice AI can be a money pit like no other, but there are ways to realize its value.
  — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• Those properties also give Alphabet the possibility to earn its way out of the data center money pit.
  — Kevin Stankiewicz,alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 16 July 2026
• Chosen without these considerations, what begins as a fun hobby project can quickly turn into a money pit, so some forethought is necessary.
  — Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2026
• The gaps don’t show up all at once Some financial problems start with big, obvious decisions—a house that becomes a money pit, a high-interest debt burden, a major life change.
  — Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Apr. 2026
• YouTube has transformed from a money pit into a subscriber behemoth and legitimate television replacement earning over $60 billion a year.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 May 2026
• While attitudes improved modestly this year, the fact remains that for many students, the traditional path to a post-secondary degree is a money pit, which explains why more young people are gravitating toward skilled-trade careers.
  — Bob Carey, Boston Herald, 20 Dec. 2025
• At hotels, which have been ditching items like free soaps and even bathroom doors to economize, the free breakfast is a sacred cow that some worry will not survive, increasingly seen by hotel operators as an money pit eating into the thin margins of the business.
  — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 15 Feb. 2026