How to Use business in a Sentence

business

noun
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  • He has the skills necessary to run a business.
  • She works in the publishing business.
  • Do we have any other business we need to discuss?
  • The town is trying to attract new businesses.
  • The store has lost a significant amount of business since the factory closed.
  • Their publishing company is the best in the business.
  • David has decided to go into business with his brother.
  • They advertised to increase business.
  • No, I didn't ask him what he wanted the car for. That's his business.
  • I have to go to New York City on business next week.
  • Lancaster and Columbia have plenty of history apart from the Civil War, of course. For example, Lancaster was home to F. W. Woolworth's first successful 5&10 and Milton S. Hershey's first successful candy business.
    — Lancaster New Era, 2 July 1996
  • This isn't the first time the business has been on the road.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 27 Jan. 2023
  • But baseball is a tough business at the end of the day.
    — Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2023
  • But first, this kid is business in the front, party in the back.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Hopkins says her business has tripled in the past three years.
    — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 July 2022
  • Zien said the stand was a way to dip his toe into the restaurant business.
    — Michele Parente, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 July 2018
  • Who knew blowing up half the cast would be good for business?
    — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 17 July 2017
  • Lastly, some good news from the evil realm of business.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 8 Feb. 2019
  • Séramy said his business was one of the early victims of the crises.
    — Anna Rabemanantsoa, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Your body and your goals are your business, and no one else’s.
    — SELF, 10 Jan. 2019
  • Here, even tourists get caught up in the flow of business as usual.
    — Anna Winger, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2016
  • Apartments are on one side, and a business on the other.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
  • And some small business owners are at the breaking point.
    — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Playing in a band with a sibling can be a tricky business.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
  • All of this is hoped to drive up business and bring in even more money for the village.
    — Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Where the music business is today, there has to be room for all of it.
    — Eben Shapiro, Time, 7 Feb. 2021
  • In the music business, words like that could be a problem.
    — Michelle Miller, CBS News, 17 July 2021
  • Police said the front glass door of the business was broken out to gain entry.
    — Pioneer Press, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The cost would be high, but a deal like that would be more in line with the way the Guards do business.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 30 July 2022
  • What was happening in terms of culture, and maybe in terms of the business?
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022

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