BUSINESS in a Sentence

Learn BUSINESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for BUSINESS, such as:
1. A boring matter of business, Mrs. Wilkes.
2. Never think yourself above your business.
3. He went bankrupt after only a year in business.
4. War is a dirty business and I do not like dirt.
5. The threat of war has depressed business activity.
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 Meanings and Examples of BUSINESS
business
 n.  an immediate objective
 n.  a rightful concern or responsibility
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The mere fact of obeying her orders, of feeling free to go about his business again and talk with other men, restored his shaken balance and magnified his sense of what he owed her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Besides, he hated lying; if he wanted the money he wanted it, and it was nobody's business to ask why.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  Ethan left the grays in Hale's stable and went about some other business in the village.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  Toby, who had handled Gerald's horses for twenty years, pushed out his lips in mute indignation at being told how to conduct his own business.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  In transacting business for O'Hara Brothers, he had visited Augusta, a hundred miles up the Savannah River, and he had traveled inland far enough to visit the old towns westward from that city.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  Mammy pinched small Jack, and he hastened to his business of slowly swishing the paper ribbons back and forth behind Ellen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  Gerald rode beside the carriage on his big hunter, warm with brandy and pleased with himself for having gotten through with the unpleasant business of Wilkerson so speedily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  If a man's not a gentleman, he's no business on a horse.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  Finally the business section fell behind and the residences came into view.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  A boring matter of business, Mrs. Wilkes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  You didn't have your mind on your business and I'll wager you weren't thinking about our Cause or the hospital.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  Blockading is a business with me and I'm making money out of it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  She had often heard in Charleston and Savannah that Atlanta people gossiped more and meddled in other people's business more than any other people in the South, and now she believed it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  War is a dirty business and I do not like dirt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  Except for the messy business of nursing and the bore of bandage rolling, she did not care if the war lasted forever.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Level of education is actually quite a poor indicator of ability to run a business well.
2  Never think yourself above your business.
3  He that thinks his business below him will always be above his business.
4  The threat of war has depressed business activity.
5  The mobile phone business was actually his bread and butter.
6  The firm discovered that underselling actually boosted its business.
7  Hanson's golden rule is to add value to whatever business he buys.
8  He went bankrupt after only a year in business.
9  The airline is beginning to claw back some of the business it lost after the bomb explosion.
10  I will look after her child when she is on a business trip.
11  They operated a drug-smuggling business under the guise of an employment agency.
12  The government will have to create a special agency to underwrite small business loans.
13  A commercial agent manages the business affairs of company.
14  Our agent in Rio deals with all our Brazilian business.
15  The business was acquired from Orion four years ago.