8 sentences with 'profitable'
Example sentences and phrases with the word profitable and other words derived from it.
• « Most of all, we'll have to convince ourselves that sometimes it's much more profitable to slack off than to get swept up in the hustle and bustle of modern life. »
• « Thus, mills remained profitable for peasants, and milled flour became the norm in most of Europe by the end of the 12th century. »
• « For most of the 17th century, the Dutch controlled an enormous amount of the hugely profitable trade in luxury goods and spices from the East Indies as a result. »
• « This, in turn, led to widespread piracy and conflict between the powers of Europe in their colonial territories, as they sought to seize profitable lands and assert their respective monopolies. »
• « Railway construction became a massive industry in its own right, fuelling both profitable investment and the occasional disastrous financial collapse. »
• « In the 1980s the only profitable industries in Russia were oil and vodka, and then oil prices began to fall for a decade. »
• « Drofflader has just coordinated a team of researchers who set themselves the goal of determining which professions will be the most profitable in the next ten years. »