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How to use revenue in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Revenue means the income returned by an investment. Example: “The revenues from both brand-name drugs and generic drugs have increased.”

Examples of revenue by meaning

nounThe income returned by an investment.

  • In the seventh series of The X Factor in the UK, it's estimated the phone votes brought in more than £5.4 million in revenue.2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC

More sentences with revenue

  • The revenues from both brand-name drugs and generic drugs have increased.From the entry drug
  • Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.From the entry gone
  • The company plans to outsell last year’s revenue with the new product.From the entry outsell
  • With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.From the entry plate
  • The company took a revenue hit when sequestration dried up some of its best contracts.From the entry sequestration
  • Due to a shortfall in revenue, we will have to make some cuts.From the entry shortfall
  • Monopolies engaging in profit maximization will produce at the quantity where its marginal revenue equals marginal cost.From the entry maximization
  • They believe they now have enough capital to boot up and stay alive until sales revenue begins.From the entry boot up
  • The government achieved a surplus budget by cutting defense spending and increasing tax revenues.From the entry surplus budget
  • Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?From the entry color
  • Many major newspapers are paywalled because they need the revenue.From the entry newspaper
  • Clicking here lets you replace the annual sales data with monthly data, drilling down to help you track revenue.From the entry drill down
  • Expenses greatly exceeded revenues this year, much to nobody's surprise.From the entry greatly
  • Tourism brings a lot of tax revenue to the area.From the entry tourism
  • I was disappointed by last year’s revenue.From the entry disappoint
  • The first tertile results include January through April's revenues.From the entry tertile
  • The frontlist is often the top revenue center, but a strong backlist provides another revenue stream that hedges risk.From the entry frontlist
  • By raising taxes, we can balance up until the deficit is gone, instead of decreasing tax rates and therefore revenue, which would be balancing down.From the entry balance up
  • By lowering costs, we can balance down to eliminate the deficit, instead of trying to increase revenue, which would be balancing up.From the entry balance down
  • Once you factor in rent, staff, and inventory, the cost of doing business around here eats up nearly half of gross revenue.From the entry cost of doing business
  • Norway is an exceptionally oil-rich country, with fossil fuels generating a quarter of government revenues.2025 November 4, Eric Levitz, “The most likely AI apocalypse: How artificial intelligence could be leading most humans into an inescapable…. From the entry resource curse
  • Almost $5.3 billion in sales revenue this Black Friday came from mobile purchases.2023 November 30, Lakshmi Varanasi, “Shoppers are worried about the economy so they're 'doom spending' to make themselves feel better”, in…. From the entry doom spending
  • And the fewer the people using the Tube, the lower the fare revenue.2022 March 23, Paul Clifton, “Londoners pay the price”, in RAIL, number 953, page 49. From the entry self-defeating
  • The lower the fare revenue, the sterner the job cuts could be.2022 March 23, Paul Clifton, “Londoners pay the price”, in RAIL, number 953, page 49. From the entry self-defeating
  • But season tickets continued to decline in popularity - they now account for 20.6% of ticket revenue.2020 January 2, “Upturn in train punctuality and in freight's fortunes”, in RAIL, page 13. From the entry season ticket
  • Cutting line capacity by 4tph (around 30 trains a day) would slash revenues (seats).2020 December 16, Nigel Harris interviews Mark Thurston, “HS2 is still the right thing to do...”, in Rail, page 41. From the entry here and now
  • Thus, revenue from milk yield before dry-off is higher for cows that are abruptly dried off.2020 September 24, Pornpamol Pattamanont, Marcos Marcondes, Albert De Vries, “Advantages and Disadvantages of Various Dry-off Methods for…. From the entry dry off
  • Virgin Trains East Coast failed because ridership and revenue did not increase as predicted in its bid.2019 October 23, Philip Haigh, “Railway reorganisation offers no guarantee of a panacea”, in Rail, page 57. From the entry ridership
  • That's why County Commissioner Liu Tseng-ying has called for the distillery to double its revenues and profits.2017 March 20, 3:32 from the start, in Makers of Matsu’s unique kaoliang liquor look to tap into foreign markets, Formosa Television. From the entry Lienchiang
  • Standards that consider an offsetting of assets and liabilities and revenues and expenses are limited.2015, Andreas Krimpmann, Principles of Group Accounting under IFRS, page 373. From the entry offsetting
  • Austeritarians bang on about the debt while failing to plug revenue holes.2015, Glen Newey, “The HSBC Buccaneers”, in London Review of Books. From the entry austeritarian
  • A subsequent coolness, pari passu with the dotcom billionaire's revenue growth no doubt, is said to've developed.2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 54. From the entry pari passu
  • IAPs are the single biggest revenue source in all successful F2P games.2013, Will Luton, Free-to-Play: Making Money From Games You Give Away, New Riders, published 2013, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry IAP
  • The Crown Estate manages the Queen’s property portfolio but revenues go to the Treasury.2013 September 21, Charlie Cooper, “Crown Estate permits badger cull on its land”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 26 Aug 2014. From the entry crown land
  • The Tories have basically treated oil and gas revenues as their own private slush fund.2010, William Marsden, Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care)…. From the entry Ralph bucks
  • The next government should be patient, and wait for the revenues to begin flowing.2009 October 8, Martin Kettle, “Doctrinaire and dangerous, Cameron's speech could unseal the deal”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry doctrinaire
  • The company said same-store prescription revenue grew 2.9 percent, and nonpharmacy, or front-end, sales fell 1.2 percent.2009 March 24, The Associated Press, “Profit Falls at Walgreen, but It Tops Estimates”, in New York Times. From the entry nonpharmacy
  • Was it some sort of marketing ploy to drive the declining tourist revenues?2009 August 15, Louisa Lim, “The ‘poshtel’”, in The Star, Malaysia. From the entry poshtel
  • A tax reform that would have raised government revenues has been watered down.2007 March 22, “The perils of "parapolitics"”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on…. From the entry parapolitics

Meaning of revenue

  1. noun The income returned by an investment.
  2. noun The total income received from a given source.
  3. noun All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.

Full definition of revenue

Questions about revenue in a sentence

How do you use revenue in a sentence?
Revenue is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The revenues from both brand-name drugs and generic drugs have increased.”
What is a short sentence with revenue?
“I was disappointed by last year’s revenue.”
What does revenue mean?
Revenue means the income returned by an investment.

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