make easy

Example Sentences

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“I thought I’d show up and there would be 500 people in lawn chairs trying to make easy money,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

She appeared to deny their existence saying: "There are no beggars in Cuba. There are people pretending to be beggars to make easy money."

From BBC • Jul. 16, 2025

MacManus met her husband of 51 years, Carlos MacManus, soon after he migrated to the U.S. from Mexico in the 1970s with aspirations to make easy money.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2025

“Mr. Michel was simply being himself – a connector. He saw an opportunity to make easy money for himself, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2023

The peerage, with its exclusive and hereditary benefits, is the aim of all the nobility of Europe, and wishes of this sort make easy converts to any philosophy that may favour the desire.

From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore