How to Use fast/quick buck in a Sentence

fast/quick buck

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  • Looks like ‘Barbie’ is bending to Beijing to make a quick buck.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
  • Stock trading is often focused on the short term, as traders aim to make a quick buck over a few months or even a few hours.
    — Dallas News, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The stock was bolstered by Trump supporters and mom-and-pop investors looking to make a quick buck.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
  • News trucks lined the streets and enterprising citizens tried to make a fast buck.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Inflation and the cost of living are top of mind these days—for everyone from investors to fast buck artists.
    — Maria Abreu, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Meanwhile, a theme park owner who lives nearby also learns about the eerie existence and tries to make a quick buck off of it.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Probably could have made a quick buck selling these 500 million years ago.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Broome acknowledged that the NFT sector today is like the dot-com boom of the late 1990s — rife with speculators trying to make a fast buck.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Some are more interested in making a quick buck than in giving you a safe product.
    — Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • A lot of my friends and I, there’s a circuit of people going to Alaska for decades to make a quick buck, especially artists trying to make quick cash.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The town itself is a classic of the genre, full of scheming locals, buried secrets and nefarious elites trying to make a quick buck.
    — David Faris, theweek, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Synthetic content is flooding search engines and social media like a kind of gray goo, all in hopes of making a quick buck.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Choe stars as Isaac, an ex-convict who ropes his desperate cousin Danny (Yeun) into his shady ventures to make a quick buck.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Then again, the whole point of the Democratic ticket is to be a clearly better option than Trump, not just a different flavor of the same willingness to smile for a quick buck from chumps.
    — Jim Geraghty, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • Some are wealthy Russians buying vehicles for themselves, or small-time entrepreneurs looking to resell cars for a quick buck.
    — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 11 May 2023
  • The wait time for certain models of Rolex watches has gone from one year roughly a decade ago to five years today, according to one expert, partly due to flippers that buy to make a quick buck.
    — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Are social media moguls Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg at fault for dialing up the world’s collective temperature just to earn a quick buck?
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Both reward a focus on building meaningful value over making a quick buck.
    — Diane Brady, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Unfortunately, there will always be bad actors looking to make a quick buck at the expense of taxpayers.
    — Chuck Grassley, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Likewise, celebrities jumped at the chance to use their cachet to earn a quick buck, releasing their own lines of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), for example, or their own crypto coins.
    — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2023
  • For several reasons, Oregon’s benefits system was a less inviting target for thieves looking to make a quick buck.
    — oregonlive, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Some manufacturers are cranking out subpar Japanese knives to make a quick buck.
    — Paul Kita, Men's Health, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The pandemic—and ongoing economic turmoil in the country—has moved traditional sellers online and led to more people looking for ways to make a fast buck.
    — Zuha Siddiqui, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Other than the techs only concerned with a quick buck (often at the expense of quality service), the generational shift from a traditional 9-5 to entrepreneurship is not cheap.
    — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 23 May 2024
  • Some enterprising business owners seized on the opportunity to make a quick buck, or even thousands, with rooms priced at many multiples of their usual high-season peak.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • That means Doc Venture can indeed invite a bunch of bad guys over to his compound to make a quick buck off of his dad’s old inventions without being too worried about possible kidnapping, injury, or death.
    — Mat Olson, Vulture, 19 July 2023
  • And in today’s climate of economic uncertainty, cybercriminals are looking to sneak up on their prey, attack quickly, make a quick buck and move on.
    — Dror Liwer, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Lee said a recent lull in the market has sifted out many speculators looking to make a quick buck, but long-term collectors and hobbyists remain heavily involved.
    — Kim Bhasin, Bloomberg.com, 7 Dec. 2022
  • And for consumers, one application with a core function brings together a diverse array of services such as calling a cab, investing money, or even making a quick buck.
    — Edward Ongweso Jr., WIRED, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Some businesses have jumped into the CBD industry to make a fast buck, selling low-quality items tainted with chemical additives.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022

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