How to Use remunerative in a Sentence

remunerative

adjective

• Our investors are seeking more remunerative opportunities.
• But when a type of crime becomes riskier and less remunerative, criminals tend to get out of that business.
  — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022
• Some may want to be of service or take up a profession that causes joy but are not especially remunerative.
  — Dennis Jaffe, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• There was little remunerative work for Robertson & Roundtree at first.
  — Margalit Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2018
• The remunerative ties that bind us fray, or vanish altogether.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
• While those with investments in the stock market see the ongoing rout as a sign to cut their losses and move money to safer, more remunerative markets.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
• For 21-year-old Carson Pesce, the snow bounty has been remunerative.
  — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
• Of the twenty-five most remunerative majors, two are economics and business; the rest are technical.
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Today there is infinitely more pressure on high school graduates to choose a remunerative path.
  — Charles Isherwood, Town & Country, 28 June 2017
• Not that long ago, the phone was my lifeline, a regular source of happy social or remunerative interaction.
  — Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 17 July 2021
• Still, criminals could target traffic lights if such attacks prove remunerative.
  — Leigh Kamping-Carder, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• In answer to your question about affluent parents, some do help their children pursue dreams that aren't wildly remunerative.
  — Syndicated Columns, OregonLive.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• Fossil-fuel plants are major employers in downstate counties, and any new green jobs are likely to be less abundant and remunerative.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• For many, work also became not only more remunerative but more interesting.
  — Edward L. Glaeser, National Review, 1 Aug. 2017
• Of course, there are countless drill rappers who want to be Pop Smoke, and precious few who land record deals, or even turn rapping into a remunerative gig.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• Their skills just do not happen to be particularly remunerative.
  — Matt Darling, Quartz at Work, 28 Aug. 2019
• And the erosion of the manufacturing sector has left many young men struggling to find meaningful and remunerative work.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 31 Oct. 2019
• Other parents are in less remunerative jobs and need their children to get into a good college and have a lucrative career to shore up the family’s resources.
  — Naomi Schaefer Riley, WSJ, 26 July 2021
• Both couples exited the White House in their early 50s, blessed with the gifts of time and remunerative options.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
• Within a year Vallotton had a thriving, if not highly remunerative career.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2020
• The First Lady, too, is not unaware of the remunerative powers of the presidency.
  — Emily Jane Fox, The Hive, 8 Feb. 2017
• Colleges, of course, reap outsize benefits from serving as the gateway to remunerative employment.
  — Frederick Hess, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• As a result, providers who viewed telehealth as a temporary emergency measure are returning to more remunerative visits.
  — Rita Numerof, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• This went back to the parceling out of traditional and remunerative institutions when the territory was new.
  — Steve Haycox, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2017
• Some of Milland’s more remunerative work came from employers who posted hundreds or thousands of tasks at a time that could be completed in rapid succession.
  — Sarah Kessler, WIRED, 12 June 2018
• Facebook has been working for years to figure out a way to turn its incredibly popular messaging apps into a remunerative business.
  — Kurt Wagner, Bloomberg.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• To be sure, directorship can be a remunerative endeavor, especially for those who sit on multiple boards.
  — Aman Kidwai, Fortune, 5 May 2022
• For the nonsuperstars, however, tennis is far less remunerative.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2021
• As with rural kids seeking their fortune in cities, the islanders often put down roots on the mainland, where their college degrees and other experience are far more remunerative.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
• The expectation that care work should be altruistic, not remunerative, has to do with the fact that it’s often been done by women, at home, for no pay, Hartmann explained.
  — Anna North, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018