How to Use the business in a Sentence

the business

noun
Definition of the businessnext
  • That’s just the nature of the business these days, right?
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2024
  • There were very few women in the business, and this was the norm at the time.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2024
  • New threads of the business have been built up over time.
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2024
  • That lack of candor is to the detriment of the business.
    — Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The menu, along with the business, has expanded over the years.
    — Kate Marijolovic, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 May 2024
  • The buildings there are roughly the same age as the business that paid for them.
    — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The Petersons built the business through hard work and word of mouth.
    — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
  • By May of 2021, Derrick had left his job and joined the business full-time.
    — Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Soon after Daniel died, Mary joined her to run the business.
    — Jill Wendholt Silva, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
  • With Walter out of the way, Claudia thinks she’ll be left to take over the business.
    — Breanna Bell, Variety, 30 Sep. 2023
  • But the business couldn’t grow fast enough from just video messages.
    — Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The footage shows the man pacing inside the business with their hand concealed in a bag.
    — Doc Louallen, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • Intimates has been a very strong piece of the business.
    — Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 6 Sep. 2024
  • But this time the story of her place in the business will be told further down the ballot as well.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
  • For a lot of places, permanence is no longer a part of the business model.
    — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Unions are lining up in support of the bill, while the business groups have opposed it.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Three years later she’d be found dead in the courtyard of their home, and by 1997 the business was bankrupt.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Last year, the business raked in $380 million in net revenue.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune Europe, 22 June 2024
  • Christopher White and his partner Tom Burt have owned the business for five years.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The hours of operation for the business would be from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week.
    — Adrienne Davis, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The more people that invest, the more money goes to the people higher up in the business's chain.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The three brothers, all in their 20s, now run the business together.
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Officially rock is dead in terms of the business and record sales.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
  • That’s a hazard of the business in minor-league hockey.
    — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2023
  • This range plus the impressive speeds makes AT&T Fiber the best internet in the business.
    — Stefanie Waldek, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Tell us how your children are really a part of the business.
    — Yvette Walker, Kansas City Star, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Around the house, the business, the farm, or the garden, the humble garden hose is one of the most important tools for outdoor chores.
    — Kate Morgan, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
  • If anything, the evidence on hand suggests that this is part of the business plan.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
  • However, the latter emerged from bankruptcy and has tapped a P.F. Chang’s executive to turn the business around.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Adam took three weeks off from his job as operations director for National Plating to help get the business off the ground.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2024

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