at a profit

Example Sentences

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The couple’s Sherman Oaks abode would serve as their first official home as a family of four, before they offloaded at a profit for $2.99 million in 2014.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 16, 2025

Private-equity firms buy companies, often using borrowed money, with the goal of fixing them up and selling them later at a profit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025

James Goldsmith was a businessman who had made a fortune by buying struggling companies cheaply, reshaping them to maximise efficiency and then selling them at a profit.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2025

The county could potentially consolidate some of its many offices there and then sell it later at a profit when the office real estate market recovered.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2024

But Yossarian still didn’t understand either how Milo could buy eggs in Malta for seven cents apiece and sell them at a profit in Pianosa for five cents.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller