How to Use remunerative in a Sentence

remunerative

adjective

• Our investors are seeking more remunerative opportunities.
• At the same time, Mr. Davis pressed to expand the nursing and business programs, which are more remunerative.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 21 May 2021
• Both couples exited the White House in their early 50s, blessed with the gifts of time and remunerative options.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
• For 21-year-old Carson Pesce, the snow bounty has been remunerative.
  — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
• But when a type of crime becomes riskier and less remunerative, criminals tend to get out of that business.
  — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022
• Of course, there are countless drill rappers who want to be Pop Smoke, and precious few who land record deals, or even turn rapping into a remunerative gig.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• The First Lady, too, is not unaware of the remunerative powers of the presidency.
  — Emily Jane Fox, The Hive, 8 Feb. 2017
• Chloe is on the fast track to remunerative Silicon Valley success; Will is burdened by debt in his quest to help the vulnerable.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
• And this is what has ravaged the coal towns of West Virginia: the free market introducing changes that made the state’s main industry less remunerative and necessary.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2021
• There was little remunerative work for Robertson & Roundtree at first.
  — Margalit Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2018
• Some may want to be of service or take up a profession that causes joy but are not especially remunerative.
  — Dennis Jaffe, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• The expectation that care work should be altruistic, not remunerative, has to do with the fact that it’s often been done by women, at home, for no pay, Hartmann explained.
  — Anna North, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
• And the erosion of the manufacturing sector has left many young men struggling to find meaningful and remunerative work.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 31 Oct. 2019
• The crisis in Italy, which has four of the world's 20 most valuable soccer clubs, provides extra motivation for a deep run in the highly remunerative Champions League.
  — Justin Birnbaum, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• Other parents are in less remunerative jobs and need their children to get into a good college and have a lucrative career to shore up the family’s resources.
  — Naomi Schaefer Riley, WSJ, 26 July 2021
• But the reality may not be as remunerative as many believe.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2019
• Not that long ago, the phone was my lifeline, a regular source of happy social or remunerative interaction.
  — Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 17 July 2021
• Fossil-fuel plants are major employers in downstate counties, and any new green jobs are likely to be less abundant and remunerative.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• Some of Milland’s more remunerative work came from employers who posted hundreds or thousands of tasks at a time that could be completed in rapid succession.
  — Sarah Kessler, WIRED, 12 June 2018
• Coleman lived in Chicago and then Houston, staging air shows all around Texas but increasingly spending time on the lecture circuit, a safer and more remunerative way to make a point about social uplift.
  — New York Times, 11 Dec. 2019
• As with rural kids seeking their fortune in cities, the islanders often put down roots on the mainland, where their college degrees and other experience are far more remunerative.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
• In answer to your question about affluent parents, some do help their children pursue dreams that aren't wildly remunerative.
  — Syndicated Columns, OregonLive.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• The remunerative ties that bind us fray, or vanish altogether.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
• This went back to the parceling out of traditional and remunerative institutions when the territory was new.
  — Steve Haycox, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2017
• The budget allocated by AC Milan for player salaries is also in line with the goal originally set by the club of competing for a spot in Europe’s most remunerative tournament.
  — Daniele Proch, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• Today there is infinitely more pressure on high school graduates to choose a remunerative path.
  — Charles Isherwood, Town & Country, 28 June 2017
• The earliest proof that this tactic could be remunerative was the monstrously successful Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, which started in 2004.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 3 June 2020
• Colleges, of course, reap outsize benefits from serving as the gateway to remunerative employment.
  — Frederick Hess, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Facebook has been working for years to figure out a way to turn its incredibly popular messaging apps into a remunerative business.
  — Kurt Wagner, Bloomberg.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• Within a year Vallotton had a thriving, if not highly remunerative career.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024