How to Use profitable in a Sentence

profitable

adjective

• The movie was very profitable.
• The goal is no longer to win games and to be profitable.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022
• Here are the most profitable cities in the country to host an Airbnb.
  — Marcus Reichley, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024
• This is the 12th film for Rajamouli and all of them have been profitable.
  — Tim Gray, Variety, 16 Dec. 2022
• The chain has said about a quarter of its U.S. stores aren’t profitable.
  — Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 15 Oct. 2024
• Of the top 10 most profitable areas, seven were found to be in the South.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• All 11 buy signals in the last year have been profitable.
  — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
• These have been two of the nine most profitable under teams in the league this season.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2022
• The label is profitable in its 15M subs who pay as much as $9 apiece.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2024
• That type of rental agreement turned out to be quite profitable.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
• Only about 6,000 of the chain’s stores in the United States were profitable, Mr. Wentworth said at the time.
  — Danielle Kaye, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2025
• Eisenman said the business is profitable in spite of that.
  — James Manso, WWD, 29 Oct. 2024
• In fact, in-person traffic is still the most profitable point of sale.
  — Peter Green, Quartz, 28 July 2024
• The cuts will also free up aircraft to fly more profitable routes.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2024
• Eight of the nine casinos – all but Bally’s – were profitable in the first quarter of this year.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 May 2022
• In historic Boston, then, the question was how to make the past profitable.
  — Seth C. Bruggeman / Made By History, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
• And, for the most part, family films are profitable at the box office.
  — Elliott Smith, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• The endgame is not what is best for the welfare of the child, but to maintain a highly profitable business.
  — Laura Goetz, STAT, 3 Mar. 2023
• But the unit was never profitable, and Goldman has scaled back its plan to bank the masses.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
• The prevailing wisdom was that the only way to be profitable was to scale up to 1,000 cows.
  — Zoeann Murphy, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• McCaw and Freeze knew how to make the most of this profitable industry.
  — Brice Particelli, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• Either way, Cameron says the film will be profitable enough to warrant the sequels.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 6 Jan. 2023
• Nine of the list’s 20 most profitable companies were banks.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 June 2024
• And of course, recycling is a big and profitable part of our business as well.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025
• The plant builds the highly profitable Super Duty trucks.
  — Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2024
• Airlines are cutting some of these less profitable flights, which have become money losers amid higher fuel prices.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026
• Many historic buildings in Naperville have been redeveloped for new and profitable second (or third) lives.
  — Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
• The mobility business turns out to be not a great profitable business.
  — Jamie Lincoln Kitman, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2026
• Executives called for the streaming outlet to be profitable in the second quarter.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
• Be ill-prepared for Christmas and face the danger of fumbling your most profitable time of the year.
  — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026