How to Use make money in a Sentence

make money

idiom
Definition of make moneynext
  • That means that there’s a lot of people that need to make money off it.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024
  • And have clients and make a name for myself and make money and learn the business side of things.
    — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
  • And of course, people on the app also are able to make money.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Many shops and restaurants also make money in the summer, then close for the rest of the year.
    — Nick Romeo, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The surest way to make money in AI is the same way as during any gold rush: just sell the shovels.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
  • There is also the question of how Meta plans to make money with it.
    — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The rights to broadcast or stream a sport are key to how schools and sports networks make money.
    — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • And that drove this hunger of wanting to make money, wanting to do my own thing.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Others on the line hope to make money from their time waiting.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 19 May 2024
  • This is the stock market; plenty of people just want to make money.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 14 June 2024
  • His plan was to leave Ramallah, study abroad and make money.
    — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • But the intent was not, as with its precedent, to make money for the government.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Better to keep it in the family, to be landlords, to make money.
    — Nimet Kirac, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • The 0% financing scheme seems to be a great deal for users—but how will the company make money?
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Tragedy strikes and traders (or trading algorithms) sniff out a way to make money off of it.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 16 July 2024
  • Want to learn how to make money, get rich (fast) and fast-track your way to financial success?
    — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • All these companies are in business to make money, and that’s fine.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Short sellers make money by betting the value of shares will fall.
    — Reuters, CNN, 12 Aug. 2024
  • His plan to help his mother and sister make money landed them in prison, too.
    — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Getting a song on AM/FM radio is still a good way to make money, but radio hits are tough to come by.
    — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Jean, the trainer who wanted to make money to help his sick brother, traveled to Tunisia, too.
    — Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2023
  • The real life Sonny would go on to make money posing as a biker.
    — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 21 June 2024
  • This is a way for payment companies to make money and stay in business.
    — Doc Louallen, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Again, there are those who are in art for art’s sake, but there are also those who want to make money (or at least a living) off their works.
    — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2024
  • At some point, AI needs to make money for these companies rather than just cost money.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 6 Aug. 2024
  • These are medicines that could save lives, make money, and perhaps reshape our culture.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 24 Aug. 2023
  • There’s always going to be time to make money, but youth and being able to play a sport is only around for a certain amount of time.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
  • To make money, banks use a portion of customers’ deposits to give out loans to other customers.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 16 Mar. 2023
  • People were panicking, trying to sell equipment to make money.
    — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Net interest income, a key way banks make money and a metric that’s highly sensitive to interest rates, was $23.5 billion, up 3% on the year.
    — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'make money.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: