How to Use income in a Sentence

income

noun
Definition of incomenext
Synonyms for incomenext
  • Farming is his main source of income.
  • He earns a good income as a consultant.
  • Even on two incomes, we're having a hard time keeping up with our bills.
  • What was the company's annual income?
  • Any income from investments must be reported.
  • The town creates a great deal of revenue through the sale tax … grants and other income streams.
    — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2022
  • Coke said its net income fell 28% to $1.9 billion for the quarter.
    — Dee-Ann Durbin, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2022
  • Is this going to count as taxable income for this year?
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
  • That means its harder to stay housed at any income level.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • With little income, the couple has burned through their savings to pay rent.
    — Hau Chu, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
  • Gerken said, however, the prestige is not worth the cost to low-income students.
    — Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Many sugar plantations, which were a major source of income for the island, had been burned to the ground.
    — Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2022
  • More than half the money has gone to homeowners whose incomes are 30% or less of the area median.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The report found that the best places for Airbnb hosts to make an extra buck on top of their typical income are in Arizona.
    — Laura Bratton, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The share of median household income in the New York area eaten up by the median rent rose from 35% to 37% in that time.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
  • For a family of one, there's a monthly income limit of $2,266.
    — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Young adults, low-income adults and parents were most likely to rank their mental health as fair or poor.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The store is now a tourist attraction and gets a significant portion of its income from the sale of tote bags and T-shirts.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • All three dancers agree that City Ballet wasn’t much of a company in 1948; there were no steady seasons — and no steady income.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Net income for the first half of the year was down 92% from a year earlier, meaning there’s not much cash floating around to service that debt.
    — Peter Green, Quartz, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Enlarge / Health care spending of high income-countries by share of GDP.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2023
  • In fact, a recent report shows a record 12 million U.S. households now spend more than half of their income on rent.
    — Heather L. Whitley, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2024
  • That might be enough to make all your sales California source income.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • Thomas Beckmen, the orchestra’s board chairman, said the L.A. Phil will be ending the year with record sales and income of $160 million.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • But everything is pricey these days, and a little extra income can go a long way.
    — Collin Robisheaux, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2022
  • If the employees' tips for the night don't raise that income up to the minimum, the employers make up the difference.
    — Ashraf Khalil, ajc, 8 Nov. 2022
  • But since the pandemic, home prices in metro Denver and elsewhere found a way to keep rising much faster than incomes.
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Soaring home and rent prices have eaten into incomes and priced some people out of the market.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Texas has debated the issue of universal school choice, which provides education options to parents of all income groups, for almost a decade.
    — John Fund, National Review, 21 Feb. 2025
  • This is a key question in universal basic income discussions.
    — Charles Towers-Clark, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025

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