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Example sentences for "more profitable"

  • Raising drugs is one of those things that seems to be more profitable to teach others to do than to do yourself.

  • In all those states where cotton and sugar are raised for exportation, it is, for the most part, more profitable to buy provisions for the slaves than to raise them.

  • It is this that is parallel to the effect of an increased demand for mutton in making it more profitable to breed sheep.

  • Thus we can conceive of a "margin of production" which will shift backwards to more profitable or forwards to include less profitable mines, according as the demand for coal contracts or expands.

  • Through the greater part of England, notwithstanding the superiority of price, the dairy is not reckoned a more profitable employment of land than the raising of corn, or the fattening of cattle, the two great objects of agriculture.

  • That employment may, perhaps, be more profitable to him than the greater part of other employments; but on account of the slowness of the returns, it cannot be more advantageous to his country.

  • If he was an economist, he generally found it more profitable to employ his annual savings in new purchases than in the improvement of his old estate.

  • Clemens answered: Yes, it would be more profitable to me to do that because, with your society to help me, I should swiftly finish this now apparently interminable book.

  • Webster was ordered to wind up the last ends of the engraving business with as little sacrifice as possible, and attend entirely to more profitable affairs--viz.

  • We often debate whether it is more profitable to put in the advertisement or to leave it out.

  • Nevertheless, there was some consolation in the thought that such betterment, as Addison now described, would in the long run make the lines more profitable.

  • Is that done because it is a more profitable way of disposing of the goods than by selling them to the merchants?

  • Did you find it more profitable to get them there?

  • It is more profitable, of course, for dealers and knitters to make it up, as all the raw material would come to would be comparatively trifling.

  • I am satisfied, however, that in the end it would be more profitable to seed down the barley with clover.

  • In a new country, where land is cheap, it may be more profitable to raise as large crops as possible without any regard to the loss of nitric acid.

  • Does it by any means follow from this, that the former kind of labour is more profitable to the community than the latter?

  • Never were kind and seasonable showers more profitable to the tender new-mown grass than will this city at this day be, to the inhabitants of the world; they will come as a blessing from heaven upon them.

  • For since they are sent of God, they must needs come with some good in their hand for us, also our prayers may make them more profitable to us.

  • It is more profitable in making the greatest possible quantity of calico, and boots in the shortest possible time.

  • But the division of labor is more profitable.

  • The quahaug has a greater area, greater possible expansion and a more profitable market.

  • The greater part of the scalloping is done by power, and, in spite of the extra cost of nearly 90 cents per day, the proportionate increase makes this method more profitable; it is claimed to increase the catch about one-third.

  • The summer bedding of oysters still continues, as certain planters find it more profitable to fatten than to grow oysters, and the oyster grant system is now in full operation.

  • About a hundred years ago people in England and America began to give more attention to poultry keeping, and to study how to make poultry (especially fowls) more profitable.

  • Elsewhere the small flock that can be cared for in the owner's spare time is likely to be more profitable.

  • We shall somewhat modify our industries in order to get the benefit of new openings for commerce, and some of the things which we now directly produce we may find it more profitable to get by exchange, which is indirect production.

  • They encumber the mill and prevent the filling of more profitable orders; and the natural mode of reducing the amount of this undesirable part of the output is to raise the charges on it.

  • Freight of a low grade would be less desired, since the space it would require might otherwise be available for business of a more profitable kind, and the rates on such freight would rise.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "more profitable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each period; looking woman; more accurate; more ample; more complicated; more death; more detailed; more easy; more especially; more exactly; more extensive; more formidable; more instances; more literally; more marked; more modern; more open; more primitive; more probably; more reasonable; more scientific; more things; more trouble; more years; would often; younger brothers