How to Use cash cow in a Sentence

cash cow

noun

• The movie studio saw the actress as a cash cow.
• The football team was a cash cow for the university.
• The event should be a cash cow for the Fort Worth area.
  — Dallas News, 5 June 2021
• Yet, will Pacquiao, still a cash cow of the sport, be around?
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2021
• The fees have become somewhat of a cash cow over the past 20 years.
  — Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• The Big Ten could expand to 100 teams and no one would mess with that cash cow.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
• But with this cash cow has come a problem: the need to keep milking it.
  — Fortune, 18 July 2019
• The market was to be more of a social mission than a cash cow.
  — Michele Herrmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2020
• Yet they have been forced to grab the hind legs of the CFP cash cow and hold on, together, for dear life.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
• Queen Elizabeth II may be a lot of things—but a cash cow?
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2017
• These included the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, which would have been the cash cow of a Kurdish state.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
• The fees have become somewhat of a cash cow for banks over the past 20 years, some experts have said.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2022
• Only if the Joneses were to sell their cash cow could such a thing happen.
  — Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2022
• The broadcaster is the cash cow, which does allow for the broadcaster to have a say.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• Football, of course, is the cash cow for most college programs.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 23 Mar. 2020
• For their long-term survival, both broadcast and cable news have the cash cow of live sports.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
• At the heart of the current battle is Future Retail, the cash cow of Future Group.
  — Sherisse Pham, CNN, 29 Oct. 2020
• But the story of a politician looking to turn her seat into a cash cow isn’t mine.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 16 Oct. 2020
• The money prints aren’t the only cash cows in this collection.
  — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 2 Oct. 2017
• The new commissioner needs to be well-versed in the ins and outs of the biggest cash cow, college football.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 21 Jan. 2021
• Clinics like these aren’t cash cows for health systems.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 17 July 2023
• Sports Action's payments, which were tied to the lottery's profits, were a boost but not a cash cow.
  — Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 24 May 2018
• In many cities making change has become a cash cow for some because of the great U.S. coin shortage.
  — Stephen Moore, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2020
• Pro says: The Hilltoppers have been a cash cow since the beginning of last year, winning 15 of their last 21 games against the spread.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 20 Oct. 2022
• Boyd has certainly been a cash cow for the Bengals on third down this season.
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
• The people running the tournaments don't want to kick them out, because that's their cash cow.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Aug. 2022
• This would otherwise be the cash cow of Rama Jama’s year.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 13 Apr. 2020
• Alex’s minions are sweeping her away, leaving a stunned Bradley with the job of keeping the network’s cash cow on its feet.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2021
• The bottom line is cutting these jobs wouldn’t make a huge dent, football is the cash cow, and athletic directors don’t want to risk losing any competitive edges there.
  — Seth Emerson, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
• Influencers are touting egg donation as a cash cow to millions of followers on the internet.
  — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024