INCOME in a Sentence

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175 example sentences for INCOME, such as:
1. Economy is itself a great income.
2. I make a respectable income by it.
3. They had to get a job to supplement the family income.
4. I find it increasingly difficult to live within my income.
5. Let him have his little income, and come and live with me.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of INCOME
income
 n.  the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time
Classic Sentence: (68 in 5 pages)
1  The prospect of four thousand a-year, in addition to his present income, besides the remaining half of his own mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
2  It is certainly an unpleasant thing," replied Mr. Dashwood, "to have those kind of yearly drains on one's income.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
3  "And yet two thousand a-year is a very moderate income," said Marianne.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
4  But it is not to be imagined that she lives up to her income.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
5  I insist on you hearing the whole of it," he replied, "My fortune was never large, and I had always been expensive, always in the habit of associating with people of better income than myself.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44
6  His demands and your inexperience together, on a small, very small income, must have brought on distresses which would not be the LESS grievous to you, from having been entirely unknown and unthought of before.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47
7  Edward was not entirely without hopes of some favourable change in his mother towards him; and on THAT he rested for the residue of their income.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49
8  This certainly had not a profitable appearance, and I shook my head as if I would imply that it would be difficult to lay by much accumulative capital from such a source of income.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
9  Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
10  Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
11  Let him have his little income, and come and live with me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
12  Reminding him of the fact, that Mr. Peggotty derived a steady, though certainly a very moderate income from the bequest of his late brother-in-law, I promised to do so.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
13  I make a respectable income by it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
14  Altogether, I am well off, when I tell my income on the fingers of my left hand, I pass the third finger and take in the fourth to the middle joint.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
15  In all matters affecting income, the sales of timber, wheat, and wool, the letting of lands, Vronsky was hard as a rock, and knew well how to keep up prices.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 25
Example Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
1  The government exacts taxes from every wage earner above a certain level of income.
2  Inequalities of income would lead to even greater inequalities in access to health care.
3  This latest cut in government spending will affect income support recipients and their families.
4  He wanted to have a source of income after his retirement; until then, he wouldn't require additional money.
5  Inflation is considered to be undesirable because of its adverse effects on income distribution.
6  All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
7  I find it increasingly difficult to live within my income.
8  This concept, called the accrual concept or matching principle, forms the basis for the measurement of accounting income.
9  The conference discussed the fair distribution of income and wealth.
10  Reducing the income will further impoverish these families and could tempt an offender into further crime.
11  Economy is itself a great income.
12  Our income has decreased and now we must practise strict economy.
13  There are an estimated eight million people currently thought to be eligible to reclaim income tax.
14  Tax incentives have been very effective in encouraging people to save and invest more of their income.
15  They had to get a job to supplement the family income.