How to Use lucre in a Sentence

lucre

noun

• But these efforts and many others take time, and don’t rake in the lucre.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• This, too, seemed Trump-y: forbearance, in the name of lucre.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
• Each of The Times’ stories ended with the rosy thought that this would surely be beloved by the locals and make great heaps of lucre.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2021
• The stakes are much too high to leave these things to chance, or to the lucre-sniffing incentives of capital.
  — WIRED, 21 Oct. 2022
• The lucre of cotton prompted plantations in the American South to turn to the African slave trade.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
• And the Pandora Papers revealed that there is a small army of stateside lawyers ready to come to the aid of those who need to keep their filthy lucre hidden.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 10 Oct. 2022
• Of course, there are other factors at play here besides filthy lucre.
  — Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2022
• If the one is vilified for its worship of filthy lucre, the other is tarred by its worship of frivolous lamé.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2021
• The well-to-do weren’t jetting off to spread their lucre elsewhere, parching Sacramento’s coffers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• The Arabic-language sources vary on many of the details but leave an unmistakable impression of lucre the likes of which have rarely been seen anywhere.
  — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• That's a lot of lucre for someone who is into grandstanding rather than governing.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 12 Apr. 2021
• Does this ragtag band of misfits, coached by a renegade named Goona (Maisie Williams), stand a chance against a bunch of hot shots with flowing locks, fancy uniforms, and all the talent and training that Nooth’s lucre can buy?
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• Corporations pump so much lucre into the state’s coffers that there’s no sales taxes on anything.
  — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2020
• Along with the significant lucre, Wheeler factored all that into his decision to head south from Queens to Philly after the 2019 season.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2021
• Meanwhile, Hollywood and its progressive ilk continue pumping enormous amounts of lucre into that state in a flagrant attempt to influence the vote, which, of course, prompts the GOP to plead for more and more.
  — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 26 Dec. 2020
• Such lucre would indicate an industry in good health, and nobody’s losing money in the big leagues, from owners to executives to players.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2021
• Broadway is constantly accused of abandoning its storied, artistic past in a current embrace of filthy lucre.
  — Author: Elizabeth L. Wollman, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2020
• Director Gillespie’s random visual effects (matching tabloid newspaper fonts to Cruella’s celebrity pranks) miss the excitement of luxe and filthy lucre.
  — Armond White, National Review, 28 May 2021
• The original myth, though, carries quite a different connotation: Worshiping lucre, Midas is visited by the god Dionysus, who grants his wish that anything within his grasp turns to gold.
  — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
• Recently, the college has been advised to make still deeper cuts to the language departments, which are said to not only distract students but to actively harm them by inducing an interest in anything other than lucre.
  — Charles Petersen, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
• In some cases (see: Bouchard, Genie) sponsors expect social media activation in exchange for their endorsement lucre.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• The industry’s surpassing love of lucre beyond all else doesn’t only infect political coverage.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Stateless people do not elect officials, enjoy diplomatic representation, or possess the lucre of a corporate lobby.
  — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2020
• Stateless people do not elect officials, enjoy diplomatic representation, or possess the lucre of a corporate lobby.
  — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020
• Even then, companies were trading user experience for advertising lucre.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 10 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 4 Sep 2024