earned

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Definitions

Phrases

• earn one's keep
• earn one's stripes
• penny saved is a penny earned

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

• Since that day, I have tried to do everything in my power to work and earn your respect and try and make you proud on and off the field.

• Shackelford graduated from West Potomac High School in 1992 and earned a degree in poetry four years later from East Carolina University.

• My job is to pump up one balloon at a time and earn as much money as possible.

• France has earned the most Academy Award nominations for best international feature film and classics like Amélie, The Artist, or The Intouchables have turned into mainstream hits.

• For instance, if an established website like Forbes links to a value-added blog you wrote a few months ago, you’ll earn a high-quality backlink.

• The brokers then scout out potential “crew members” who can earn substantial discounts for working the journey.

• It was never intended to do anything as vulgar as actually earn money.

• “This is a job I knew I had to earn,” he said in an interview.

• If she played enough—and she planned to—she would earn them a “free” night in the hotel.

• Others earn our admiration because they belong more to a particular moment.

• Twenty dollars a month is the salary, and school keeps for six months, so I shall earn the large sum of $120 a year.

• Robert is very well in a way, to give up all the money he can earn to the family, and keep the barest pittance for himself.

• Every man will still earn his own living and that of his family as best he can, relying first and foremost upon his own efforts.

• He intends that he shall take the name of Arden, and earn the transmission of the title, or the distinction of a greater one.