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Example sentences for "earn"

Lexicographically close words:
earliness; early; earmark; earmarked; earmarks; earned; earner; earners; earnest; earneste
  1. They are not obliged to earn their daily bread.

  2. I will go out into the world and earn my own bread and butter.

  3. So long as she could earn a little honestly, she was not afraid.

  4. But you speak of going out into the world to earn your bread and butter.

  5. Well," said Susan, smiling, "there is no pressing call for me to earn money.

  6. At an early age, when she was barely sixteen, the suggestion had been forced on Susan that it was her duty to spread her wings and leave the paternal nest to earn her living.

  7. You have the kind heart; but I must earn my salary, and if it is in this way that I am most useful to you, let me show my goodwill, my devotion to your school, by going where the young ladies will.

  8. Financial reverses had forced her, an orphan of good family, to earn her living.

  9. Too bad to encourage such infants, but they mean box-office receipts, and we have to earn terrapin like this, in one way or another.

  10. Especially when the university's farms and workshops and factories give every student, man and woman, a chance to earn a good living.

  11. No boy, no matter what he has at home, can come to that there college without working his way through, without learning to work, me to provide the chance to earn the living.

  12. Across the road the Robin father stayed with his brave children and called out, "Earn it, my son, earn it!

  13. It means that I'm to go back and earn my living.

  14. Heaven knows, I hate you having to earn your own living at all, but I'd rather you did it that way than any other.

  15. She knew that somebody pitied her, because, poor little woman, she had to earn her own living like a man.

  16. She thought vaguely that perhaps she could earn something.

  17. The children Sarah and Rachel, usually carrying a smaller child in their arms or wheeling it with them in a wooden cart, were sent into the streets to earn money by singing at the doors of cafes and estaminets.

  18. Although he has not yet given proof that he will earn enduring fame, he is nevertheless one of the most promising of the younger writers, and, although he is not prolific, each succeeding publication has added to his fame.

  19. If adultery could only be made a virtue for a few years, it would lose its attractiveness and many writers would have to earn their living.

  20. When Pauli began to earn a comfortable income at the bar he treated Butler with scorn, though accepting money and food from him.

  21. At that moment one of those unfortunate women who earn their polluted sustenance by becoming the hypocrites of passions abruptly accosted them.

  22. Long ago there lived a cobbler who had very poor wits, but by strict industry he could earn enough to keep himself and his widowed mother in comfort.

  23. For Limping Tim was an idle, graceless kind of fellow, who fiddled for his livelihood, but what else he did to earn the money he squandered, no one knew.

  24. Elmwood must be sold, and I must work like a dog to earn my daily bread.

  25. And yet I pitied him, too, and as I could not stay in Berlin after that I came away to earn money enough to take me back to you.

  26. It can thus be seen that Master Thurston was on very good terms with himself, and feeling perfectly satisfied with his attempt to earn a livelihood in the metropolis.

  27. You see, I jest come down from Saranac, to find out how I could earn my livin'.

  28. The boys were forced to earn such food as they might need, or go hungry, and yet Skip Jellison would try to prevent their doing business on the street.

  29. Now what we want is to earn a news-stand the very first thing.

  30. If I could earn twenty-five cents as quick as that, it wouldn't take Teddy an' me long to buy that stand!

  31. I came down to this town to earn a livin', an' to leave other folks alone, same's I told you over there by the fountain.

  32. Why, we couldn't earn that much in a month!

  33. Jest now I want er do somethin' to earn my livin.

  34. Well, I reckon it'll be a pretty long while before you earn that much.

  35. Teddy had no idea of holding back; for this attack was but the beginning of a series which was intended to drive him out of business, and it was necessary it should be repulsed if he wished to earn his livelihood by the sale of newspapers.

  36. His money was all gone, and the flashes of sanity too rare for him to earn much; he was homeless, but not friendless, for he never appealed to his friends in vain.

  37. His father, captured by the revolutionaries in 1792 and then liberated, fled to Switzerland, whence he returned to Paris, a ruined man, to earn what he could by keeping a shop.

  38. Verses were a drug in the market, and he was a lucky man who could earn a few francs by filling a column or two in a little fashion paper boasting a few hundred subscribers.

  39. He tried to earn it honestly, and we don't get such luxuries at sea.

  40. As soon as I can find means to earn my bread, I will keep you both myself; so that you shall be spared the disgrace of taking alms from the man you wronged.

  41. Ye build the future fair, ye conquer wrong, Ye earn the crown, and wear it not in vain.

  42. How do you propose to earn bread for yourself and your sisters?

  43. I wonder," began Rose in her practical voice, "how soon Prissie will begin to earn money.

  44. Prissie just went away to have a good time, and she never meant to earn money, and she forgot all about them," grumbled the naughty little girl.

  45. I must earn money as soon as it is possible for a girl to do so, and I must stop dreaming and thinking of nothing but books, for perhaps books and I will have little to say to each other in future.

  46. So I have come to you," continued Prissie, "to say that I must take steps at once to enable me to earn money.

  47. If I can earn money to help her before she dies, she will accept it from me with thankfulness, but from no one else.

  48. No, I mean to give you back what I had from you, if ever I can compose my mind enough to go to work and earn it.

  49. I have not much property, but I intend to earn more, by-and-by.

  50. If you succeed in getting Millicent's book on the counters you will earn his everlasting gratitude.

  51. The most skilful women in that calling can earn only twenty cents a day, and many very much less.

  52. Earn your breakfast before you eat it," is not merely the counsel of Poor Richard, but of Almighty God; it is a just counsel, and not hard.

  53. I've got to earn the right to be really your friend first.

  54. I've got to earn the right even to speak of it again.

  55. You can have me, all right, Jim, but you've got to earn me.

  56. But if I should earn the right--in time--tell me, could an American make her happy?


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "earn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acquire; bag; bring; capture; catch; clear; come; command; contract; corral; derive; draw; earn; fetch; gain; get; gross; harvest; make; merit; mint; net; obtain; procure; profit; pull; rate; realize; reap; receive; return; sack; score; secure; take; win; yield


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    earn money; earn their; earnest conversation; earnest desire; earnest prayer; earnestly desired; earnestly recommend; earning money; earning women