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Example sentences for "receipts"

Lexicographically close words:
receded; recedes; receding; receipt; receipted; receit; receiue; receiued; receiueth; receiuing
  1. Of course, we didn't pull off such a success as Barnum did; but we had no kick coming when we counted up the receipts for the next week.

  2. I was peeking in the door, and when I saw what had happened I gathered up the box-office receipts and faded away.

  3. At the end of three months, Delancey has made Alex pay him a percentage of the receipts and a salary of a thousand a week, but his opinion of the movie business is unchanged.

  4. Frontispiece: Along he comes with some dame he must have kidnapped from the Follies when Ziegfeld was busy countin' up the receipts or somethin'.

  5. We are in the lobby of the hotel gettin' ready to have Jared paged, when along he comes with some dame he must have kidnapped from the Follies when Ziegfield was busy countin' up the receipts or somethin'.

  6. The average receipts for these entertainments were eight hundred dollars per night.

  7. The gross receipts of these readings were two hundred twenty-nine thousand dollars; the expenses thirty-nine thousand dollars; net profit, one hundred ninety thousand dollars.

  8. It arranges for the transport of travellers and merchandise by pack-horses and coolies at certain fixed rates, and gives receipts in due form.

  9. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.

  10. But the alarming falling off in receipts and the dwindling of my income made me withdraw the order within six months of its issue.

  11. While I am speaking of the Truffle, I may well enough mention the Receipts for the management of the Morille.

  12. I shall proceed therefore to give the Receipts for making of some other kinds of Cheeses, which yet have not appear'd in the World, which I have collected from some of the best Dairies in England.

  13. The other Receipts are such as I have collected in my Travels, as well through England, as in foreign Countries, and are such as I was prompted to enter into my List, as well for their Curiosity as for their extraordinary Goodness.

  14. The following Receipts are approved to be very excellent.

  15. I have already in my other Works given Directions for making of pickled Pork and Bacon; so that I shall say little of it in this place, but give the Receipts for ordering some particular parts of Hogs.

  16. The following Receipts are very good for preparing them for the Table.

  17. The receipts of the Patent Office have declined in nine months about one hundred thousand dollars, rendering a large reduction of the force employed necessary to make it self-sustaining.

  18. The cash receipts from the sales of public lands during the past year have exceeded the expenses of our land system only about two hundred thousand dollars.

  19. A sharp fall in chromium prices has reduced hard currency receipts from the mining sector.

  20. The Society was immediately organised, and the receipts for the first year of its existence were L9,800 odd.

  21. For fifteen years afterwards the annual receipts were still smaller.

  22. He admitted that receipts had been forged, but this was in consequence of the decrees of Providence, to whom alone vengeance was becoming.

  23. He pointed out to debtors a way to escape the oppressive debts which they owed Jewish money-lenders, by producing false receipts as for payments already rendered.

  24. The extraordinary receipts from the sales of the public lands invite you to consider what improvements the land system, and particularly the condition of the General Land Office, may require.

  25. If, therefore, the future receipts should not be sufficient to meet these outstanding and future appropriations, there may be soon a necessity to use a portion of the funds deposited with the States.

  26. The system recently introduced that subjects its receipts and disbursements to strict regulation has entirely fulfilled its designs.

  27. The receipts of the present year do not furnish the test by which we are to estimate the income of the next.

  28. In effect, however, these receipts amounted to nothing more than credits in bank.

  29. From the returns made by the various registers and receivers in the early part of last summer it was perceived that the receipts arising from the sales of the public lands were increasing to an unprecedented amount.

  30. In 1845 tollgate-keepers were ordered to make returns on the first Monday in each month, and the allowance of their per cent on receipts over one thousand dollars was cut off, leaving their salary at two hundred dollars per annum.

  31. The receipts reported each year in the auditor's reports of the state of Ohio show that equal amounts were expended yearly upon the road.

  32. Arthur's Receipts for Putting up Fruits and Vegetables in Summer to Keep, .

  33. Its receipts in 1839 were upwards of eighty thousand dollars.

  34. The receipts have been two hundred and thirty-five thousand one hundred and eighty-nine dollars, and the expenditures two hundred and sixty eight thousand, nine hundred and fifteen dollars.

  35. Its receipts for 1838 were one hundred and eighty-six dollars.

  36. The winner's share of the receipts amounted to twelve thousand dollars," was its succinct burden.

  37. The only papers remaining in the trunk were old receipts for bills paid.

  38. In one drawer of the desk she found nothing but old tax receipts showing payments paid by Herman Crocker for both the cottage property and his farm.

  39. Our market is not an important one for live stock, much of the greater share of the receipts by rail being through freight.

  40. The receipts by this route of general merchandise consigned to the cities and points westward of us is immense, and it enjoys a large and growing local traffic.

  41. The corn crop of Illinois has been much injured by the frosts of June and July, and on this account the receipts in Chicago up to this date have been much lighter than usual.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "receipts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    assets; budget; commission; credit; dividend; earnings; expenditure; gain; gains; gate; get; gleaning; gross; hoard; income; intake; interest; killing; liabilities; lucre; make; makings; net; output; pelf; percentage; perquisite; pickings; prize; proceed; proceeds; produce; profit; receipt; receipts; return; returns; revenue; royalty; store; take; wealth; winnings; yield