How to Use profitable in a Sentence
profitable
adjective- The movie was very profitable.
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The goal is no longer to win games and to be profitable.
—Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022
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Here are the most profitable cities in the country to host an Airbnb.
—Marcus Reichley, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024
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This is the 12th film for Rajamouli and all of them have been profitable.
—Tim Gray, Variety, 16 Dec. 2022
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The chain has said about a quarter of its U.S. stores aren’t profitable.
—Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 15 Oct. 2024
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These have been two of the nine most profitable under teams in the league this season.
—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2022
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The label is profitable in its 15M subs who pay as much as $9 apiece.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2024
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That type of rental agreement turned out to be quite profitable.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
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Only about 6,000 of the chain’s stores in the United States were profitable, Mr. Wentworth said at the time.
—Danielle Kaye, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2025
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Eisenman said the business is profitable in spite of that.
—James Manso, WWD, 29 Oct. 2024
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In fact, in-person traffic is still the most profitable point of sale.
—Peter Green, Quartz, 28 July 2024
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The cuts will also free up aircraft to fly more profitable routes.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2024
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Eight of the nine casinos – all but Bally’s – were profitable in the first quarter of this year.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 May 2022
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In historic Boston, then, the question was how to make the past profitable.
—Seth C. Bruggeman / Made By History, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
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And, for the most part, family films are profitable at the box office.
—Elliott Smith, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2023
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The endgame is not what is best for the welfare of the child, but to maintain a highly profitable business.
—Laura Goetz, STAT, 3 Mar. 2023
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But the unit was never profitable, and Goldman has scaled back its plan to bank the masses.
—Charley Grant, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
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The prevailing wisdom was that the only way to be profitable was to scale up to 1,000 cows.
—Zoeann Murphy, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
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Either way, Cameron says the film will be profitable enough to warrant the sequels.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 6 Jan. 2023
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Nine of the list’s 20 most profitable companies were banks.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 June 2024
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The plant builds the highly profitable Super Duty trucks.
—Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2024
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Cars with all-wheel drive make up a profitable niche for brands like Subaru and Audi.
—Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 13 July 2023
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But the company has been mum on whether any of the tools are profitable when compared with the cost of running them.
—Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2024
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Since taking over, Musk has gone to great lengths to make Twitter profitable.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 31 May 2023
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Often, Hartz says, the payments are just for a few years, until the city can prove that the route will be profitable for the airline.
—Alana Semuels, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
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Paul has been one of the most successful and profitable YouTubers since 2013.
—Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 14 June 2024
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At the same time, the typical nursing home is profitable.
—Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
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The Shell holding was Third Point’s most profitable investment in the first three months of this year, a person close to the hedge fund said.
—Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 9 May 2022
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By the ’90s, Oprah had built an empire out of collective catharsis—crying with guests and transforming daytime TV into the world’s most profitable therapy session.
—Remy Blumenfeld, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2025
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White Oak Pastures became a model for profitable and ethical meat production.
—Steven Fabos, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2025
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