How to Use income in a Sentence

income

noun

• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Time to Save for a Down Payment The amount of time required to save for a down payment was factored based on average income.
  — Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2023
• The state raised the income limits and no longer restricts the assets that beneficiaries can have.
  — Richard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 9 May 2023
• But a failure to update the income guidelines could have hurt other students.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 25 Jan. 2024
• Spacey has agreed to pay the $1 million over multiple years in installments equal to 10% of his after-tax income.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
• TikTok users who make their living on the app have complained that losing access to the app would plummet their incomes.
  — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 13 Mar. 2024
• The building, with ground-floor space rented by the church for services, offers homes to people who earn 60% or less of the area’s median income.
  — Eden Stiffman, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2023
• The first can be misused while trying to get rid of ordinary income or capital gain on the sale of the property.
  — Cortlynn Stark, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2024
• Instead, each tax rate is applied to your income that falls within each bracket.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
• For people with low incomes, the subsidies can cover most or all of their premiums.
  — Arielle Zionts, CBS News, 15 May 2023
• Drug dealing was Dickinson’s main source of income for at least the past three years, according to the prosecutor.
  — oregonlive, 15 June 2023
• This shouldn’t come as a total shock, though, as neither locale collects income taxes.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2023
• The change was necessary, a Gilead spokesman said, to allow the company to keep disbursing PrEP for free to low-income and uninsured patients and to protect against fraud.
  — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
• But residents of high-tax states who used to be able to deduct their entire state and local tax bills — property and income taxes alike — have been pushing to change the SALT cap since the 2017 tax bill.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
• Homeownership, granted out of the reach of many couples, is even harder to access with only one income.
  — Hannah Rosefield, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
• Some 500 million people around the world directly rely on reefs for food, coastal protection, income, and more.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Sep. 2023
• For instance, Germany limits the out-of-pocket costs for chronically ill patients to 1% of their income.
  — Ezekiel J. Emanuel, STAT, 23 May 2023
• The cap is part of a novel sanctions regime that aims to reduce Russia’s income without encouraging Moscow to take oil off the market.
  — WSJ, 12 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024