9059 examples of earned in sentences

He is known far and wide, and his reputation has been earned honestly and by hard work.

Arnold's subsequent change of sides earned him the execration of the Americans.

In spite of his change from repression to conciliation, and in spite of dismissing Germain to the House of Lords with an ill-earned peerage, Lord North found his majority dwindling away.

As an ex-governor and commander-in-chief, a county magnate, a personage of great importance to the Empire, and the one victorious British general in the unhappy American war, he had more than earned a peerage.

He had an idea that Coquenil might still be sleeping and if anyone in Paris had earned a long sleep it was Paul Coquenil.

By espousing the quarrel of Mannajee they had earned the enmity of Sumbhajee; and by joining in Sumbhajee's quarrel against Mannajee they had brought down on themselves the formidable power of the Peishwa.

The royal visits which earned for Coventry the title which it still bears as its motto 'Camera principis' were frequent in this century.

I am going to take all three of you in charge, giving the dependable young person a well-earned holidaya little journey in which she won't have to chaffer with the transit people.

When her well and hardly earned twenty-two dollars was cut the third time Maggie realized that this was no way to mend matters.

And their share of the money to enable this complicated system of exchange of services to be carried out, must be earned by the unmarried daughters of the house through their working in turn at some wage-earning occupation, also outside.

The higher intellectual education should grow out of and be earned by productive vocational training.

Up till then a married woman might wash all day at the washtub, and at night the law required that her employer should, upon demand, hand over her hard-earned money to her husband, however dissolute he might be.]

I will spend the money on myself, as I alone will have earned it, and at such risk.

He cleaned all the offices in our building, and earned, as near as I could estimate, about thirty-five dollars a month.

I have earned all this by the sweat of my brow.

Many have been entirely abandoned, the buyers losing the hard-earned dollars they had invested.

Of evenings the gambling hells were a glare of light, and music, both vocal and instrumental, floated out upon the streets to tempt the miners to enter, while away an hour, and incidentally part with their well-earned dust.

His average income was two hundred and sixty pounds (thirteen hundred dollars), and of this two hundred pounds was earned as a draughtsman.

How she earned her Sleep.

You'd think it was the only honest money he'd ever earned if you heard Merle talk about bankers sucking the life blood of the people.

How long is it?only two centuries since a vessel earned over the ocean the beginning of the great North American nation.

A brilliant success at the examinations quickly earned me a full absolution.

And yet he did not kill Ibrahim Mahmud the Weeper, who surely earned his death twice, and who tried to kill him in a manner most terrible to think of.

Every pupil who had no marks against him or her for failures in scholarship or deportment, was decorated with a blue ribbon, and when he had earned and worn this for one month, he was presented with a handsome diamond shaped pin on which was engraved the words "class of honor."

Your father earned it, and I am glad it goes back to its rightful owner.

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