How to Use make a buck in a Sentence

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  • The best ways to make a buck, spend it, save it, grow it, borrow it, give it or talk about it.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 6 July 2021
  • But the majority of hacks seem to be about selling the data to make a buck.
    — Ravi Sen, The Conversation, 13 May 2021
  • Stewart, of course, was but one of the many characters looking to make a buck off tragedy.
    — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
  • These odds and ends all come from sellers looking to break through and make a buck on Black Friday.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Small businesses are trying to make a buck while the getting is good.
    — William Dunkelberg, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • Three of the last eight Preakness winners went off at less than even-money, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to make a buck.
    — Frank Vespe, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2022
  • For those looking to make a buck selling their wares, 6-foot-long tables can be reserved for $20.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Lots and lots of ideas are floating around about how to leverage generative AI to make a buck.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • So much of our modern moral outrage comes down to trying to hustle to make a buck...or 10 million.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • It was waved by a teenager trying to make a buck getting fans to park in the family driveway.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
  • When to Use It: Anytime to call in a doe, or during the rut—especially the late rut—to make a buck think there’s a doe and fawns nearby.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Not all charter schools are out to make a buck, and charters run for profit are not everywhere in the nation.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The bane of Boy Scouts and cheerleaders out to make a buck, automatic washes handle most of the world's cars.
    — Benjamin Hunting, Car and Driver, 11 Nov. 2022
  • New businessmen would appear, anxious to make a buck by catering to the interest in the sport.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Policies continue to drain wealth and make a buck any way it can be made to benefit the system white people gain.
    — Tiffany Eve Lawrence, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024
  • But every fairy tale must have a villain, or at least somebody whose priority is to make a buck.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Here, Miller thought, was a guy in the richest city in the world, out trying to make a buck in historically disastrous weather.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021
  • All the while, Brandon — and others like him all across the country — have kept the cash moving from donors and businesses to 18-year-old college athletes trying to make a buck.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 May 2022
  • But what's an extra 20 interviews if each one helps a pal make a buck, or tens of thousands of them, or helps to build a carpeted stairway to the next valence of fame?
    — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 23 Feb. 2023
  • But instead of being just a quick way to make a buck, Friday the 13th became one of the longest-running horror franchises ever.
    — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Private businesses have long had to figure out how to make a buck under threat of being squashed by the authorities.
    — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Suddenly, day traders trying to make a buck saw themselves as enacting revenge for 2008.
    — James McElroy, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Spann’s lawyer, meanwhile, told the jury in his closing remarks that Spann was just like any other drug dealer or hustler trying to make a buck on the West Side, not some powerful boss who called the shots.
    — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2021
  • This speculative boom is, in a sense, something internet entrepreneurs have been doing for decades: buying up domain names to make a buck.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 16 Aug. 2022
  • However, de Melo also underscored that the drug trade in the Middle East is far from clear cut, and enemies often work together to make a buck.
    — Fox News, 9 July 2020
  • People have a major interest in continuing to pump satellites into orbit to make life better down below and maybe make a buck or two along the way.
    — Ike Morgan | Imorgan@al.com, al, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Most nursing homes are for-profit, and private equity firms are increasingly gobbling them up to make a buck at the expense of residents.
    — The Editors, Scientific American, 21 June 2021
  • The major social-media and tech companies have already done their share to pervert civil discourse and shatter consensus and squelch reason, all to make a buck.
    — Sam Lipsyte, Harper's Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Turning masks into a status symbol is nothing new, nor is capitalizing on a disaster to make a buck.
    — Nicole Wetsman, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2021
  • The franchise is absolutely crawling with demons — and therefore crawling with opportunities to make a buck.
    — Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023

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