unprofitable

Example Sentences

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“Wine has lost that halo,” said Judy Chan, who heads Grace Vineyards, a family-run Chinese winery that was unprofitable last year as its business dropped off.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Administrators PwC said this week it had a "high concentration" of inflexible, long-term leases that prevented it from reducing costs or scrapping unprofitable sites.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

Viewers have shifted away from linear TV, and while Disney has switched its focus to growing its Disney+ streaming platform, that’s proven expensive and, until recently, unprofitable.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

He criticized the wars of his predecessors not because they were interminable but because they were unprofitable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

And as to the woman who would not take my handkerchief in exchange for her bread, why, she was right, if the offer appeared to her sinister or the exchange unprofitable.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë