How To Use Earn In A Sentence

  • It is, we learned, easier to learn to fly a plane than to master touch-typing. Radio review: Fry's English Delight: The Trial Of Qwerty
  • I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
  • We learn a little more about how interconnected the world is. Times, Sunday Times
  • It wasn't a bad program; with full profs as teachers, I read a lot and learned a lot.
  • I had a sirloin steak, with béarnaise and frites, which they contrarily call chips, and a bit of salad. Times, Sunday Times
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  • A few nights ago, after viewing one of these, I was quaffing beer in Bombay Peggy's and learned that every one of the four women at the table happened to live on the other side of a river, either the Yukon or the Klondike.
  • You can't expect to learn a foreign language in a few months.
  • He was in awe of China and pleaded that if India should progress it should learn a lesson or two from the communist regime.
  • Success is neither a gift nor a blessing. Success is what you deserve. You work for and earn your success. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • The time when the production of best quality was a guarantee of earning best money is over.
  • We may earnestly believe that they're wrong - whether they're non-Christians, heretics, apostates, agnostics, atheists, or what have you.
  • I wish people would bother to learn some history instead of regurgitating propaganda.
  • I did not have intent to imply that homeschooling is like public school, but that public school directs what a child learns and when and unschooling does not. What do we teach our kids? | Johnny B. Truant
  • Norman Neal Williams had been a transient, they learned, an itinerant vitamin salesman with no known relatives. MORE TALES OF THE CITY
  • ‘Ah Dublin, you're giving it away,’ he wailed in the 55th minute, as the Dublin defence fluffed its lines yet again, giving Laois another unearned scoring opportunity.
  • Life itself, without the assistance of colleges and universities, is becoming an advanced institution of learning.
  • Measurement Intangible assets, such as knowledge and learning, account for a large part of a company's value.
  • Net interest income dropped to $256.4 million, primarily due to the low market-interest rates that resulted in lower yields on mortgage-related interest-earning assets as customers refinanced to lower mortgage rates and new loans and asset purchases were at the current low market interest rates. Hudson City Bancorp Swings to Loss
  • Committed by parents, teachers, priests or minders it undermines trust and dependency, disrupts relations with authority figures and can interfere with loving and learning.
  • Connection is here something both yearned for and guarded against. The Times Literary Supplement
  • If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. Bill Clinton 
  • However, even during adulthood we are constantly learning the faces of new individuals, both personal acquaintances and media figures.
  • A number of researchers offer insights on supportive classroom environments and the use of technology in peer learning.
  • A partially blind, poor, black man with little or no book learning outside of the Bible heard a call.
  • That means classes are taught in English, and students earn degrees by accruing credits.
  • The only people she would be able to talk to in English would be Ovidiu, and marginally to Rica with the broken language he was still trying to learn.
  • One goes like this: He was a hideous giant named Offero, who earned a living carrying travelers across the river.
  • I first learned about cassowaries when I was at the School for Field Studies SFS Center for Rainforest Studies in Fall of 1990 as a college student, and was fascinated that they're the only bird that can "scarify" certain rainforest seeds. Archive 2008-07-01
  • And this is the cause that disputes with such persons are generally fruitless, especially as immixed with that intemporancy of reviling other men wherein they exceed; for if that be a way either of learning or teaching of the truth, it is what the Scripture hath not instructed us in. Pneumatologia
  • I learned to depend on him for practical advice under fire.
  • The supplementary motor area has shown increased activity during learning of new movements.
  • More volunteers follow with lurid tales of domestic mishaps, each earning applause. Times, Sunday Times
  • From peeper scopes to duct tape -- learn more about the cool tools Nature Conservancy scientists use to solve conservation issues. Conservation Tools: 'Very Pistols,' Underwater Paper, Amphibious Vehicles And Other Cool Gadgets Used By The Nature Conservancy Scientists (PHOTOS)
  • Then take a well-earned rest and relax with all the other amazing puzzles on offer. The Sun
  • Young barristers undertaking publicly funded work frequently earn very little in their first years. Times, Sunday Times
  • A family law barrister close to the Crikey crew advises that many men attempt to talk down their earning capacity when they are negotiating settlements with former wives.
  • Companies must earn a reputation for honesty.
  • Working with steel requires different tools and skills, so there is a big learning curve for carpenters.
  • Most teachers, in colleges that don’t restrict it, will be delighted to have an interested, if unmatriculated, student in their class who sincerely wishes to learn. Letter to the St. Petersburg Times on ID Poll - The Panda's Thumb
  • Instead, they've argued, companies are more like biological organisms - living things that learn, evolve, and eventually die.
  • The jobs are ideal for stay-at-home parents as you can earn from 150 per week working just three hours a day. The Sun
  • As the old cock crows, the young (one) learns
  • The young birds' mandibles begin to cross about two weeks after they fledge, and they learn to extract seeds soon after that.
  • This research has done much to advance our understanding of language learning.
  • I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. John Lennon 
  • She learned to scramble around and even run sideways, but not forward.
  • Collaborative learning was achieved through synchronous as well as asynchronous interactive chats.
  • Yet he's also studied jazz and Indian music and learnt to play the sarod, so his band achieves a curious rapprochement between world-jazz and heads-down, no-nonsense boogie.
  • MacFadzean plays Richie Excellent, the young funster who wields unearned celebrity.
  • My earnings and spending were out of whack.
  • Thank you for making learning not a dull thing but a great joy.
  • In my scenario, the Senator tells the drowning person that it was the flailing non-swimmer's fault for falling in and not learning how to swim, not the Senator's doing, just before the erratic splasher goes under the surface for the last time. Norman Cressy: Musings II
  • The "freedom to learn" has become just another one of the government's empty slogans.
  • These results indicate that, depending on the unique features of a given learning, experience, very different classes of mechanisms can be engaged to subserve memory in a particular time domain.
  • We do learn that Olive was wild and independent, refusing to live as a shy ingénue.
  • It seems that the foreign secretary is a fast learner. Times, Sunday Times
  • She is charged with the task of ensuring the government's lifelong learning plans make sense to the public.
  • Industrial crops such as flax and dye-plants (madder, woad, and weld), and other cash crops such as coleseed, hops, and tobacco, increased revenue per hectare, enabling more people to live from the earnings of smaller plots.
  • Amid it all stands Mitt Romney, not the high-flying investment lots of Republicans yearned to put their money on, but the unspectacular Treasury bill of Republican candidates, a man whose emphasis on jobs and the economy makes him a safe enough bet at a time like this. GOP 'Flight to Safety' Benefits Romney
  • So, we've learned now that this information was shared with spies.
  • Egypt, was meant to encompass the whole world of learning. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rosie decides that a maternity fashion show highlighting her latest collection would be the perfect shower event because that is in no way a conflict of interest, and we soon learn the real motivation behind this choice -- a model casting montage in which LT wears a sequined capelet the color of Grimace from McDonaldland and tells the models to "serve and deliver. Una LaMarche: Pregnant in Heels Ep. 5: Serve and Deliver
  • If you think baroque is all about curlicues and foofaraws, Rome is the place to learn otherwise.
  • My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty. III.9
  • Holders of income shares got all the income earned from the trust, while holders of capital shares got all the capital gain.
  • Both see the value of learning poetry by rote. Times, Sunday Times
  • The jagged rock he'd sought was three feet up the incline, inviting, tantalizing him with its nearness.
  • John Malkovich's clever turn as the trainer Lucien Laurin leavens the earnest material. The Short List: A Guide to This Week's Arts and Entertainment
  • They can also question peers and learn how asking for and giving assistance to one another are keystones to academic success.
  • Engineers are very anxious to learn of its findings and to begin to correct the faults of the main water supply line from up north in New York State down to the City.
  • In this lesson, learn the basics of playing barre chords.
  • Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.” George Washington’s First War
  • Learn about regular vs. high low strategies in stud poker in this free casino poker instructional video from our expert card player and professional casino gambler.
  • Of course, all returning players are comped for their loyalty in the rewards program where they earn 1 point for every $10 wagered.
  • She described at last with extraordinary clearness, which is so often seen, though only for a moment, in such overwrought states, how Ivan had been nearly driven out of his mind during the last two months trying to save “the monster and murderer,” his brother. The Brothers Karamazov
  • Then, the phrase had struck Vincent as doting and naive, but sometime during his stay in Toulio, as his grasp of the Chinese language deepened, and as he learned—or was forced to learn—from his mistakes, he had felt the title gain merit and accuracy. Heaven Lake
  • The jury, which began deliberations last Friday after a six-week trial, had to decide whether Castroneves, his sister-manager Katiucia "Kati" Castroneves, 35, and Michigan sports attorney Alan R. Miller, 71, evaded U.S. taxes on more than $5.5 million income that the race driver earned between 1999-2004 from his arrangement with Penske Racing. Undefined
  • Distance learning is flexible but it is not an easy ride. Times, Sunday Times
  • They will learn more about Churchill than from this diffuse, badly edited book. Times, Sunday Times
  • I had mixed feelings when I learned of your new assignment. Although we will miss you, we have to admit that management has made a wise choice in placing you where they can benefit most from your talents. We will long remember the hard work and happy moments we have shared. You have been a great team member. Best wishes and keep up the good work.
  • Paying your dues You must file a return if you earn:? Times, Sunday Times
  • The move comes as the telephone company implements a plan to trim billions of dollars in expenses and to boost earnings.
  • They urged immigrants to learn English and to naturalize.
  • Investments that rely on the misfortune of others or the good will of sharks are a losing proposition in the long term, whatever the quarterly earnings report says.
  • Earning enough to be able to spend time with my family. Times, Sunday Times
  • Children must learn not to interrupt.
  • On a more encouraging note, the Democratic front-runner is out-earning her. Think Progress » Bachmann Accuses The Media Of ‘Treason,’ Claims Use Of ‘Deem And Pass’ Warrants ‘Impeachment’
  • They need to learn how to close out tight games. Times, Sunday Times
  • Possibly one of the most important memories I have of learning about music as a teenager was me and my mate sneaking into his big brother's bedroom and putting on his records on his super quality hi-fi.
  • Learn that editing is the most important part of writing (at least for me) and that you have to edit, edit, edit yourself. All Things Girl » All Things Girl » Blog Archive » Author Insight: Jill Marie Landis
  • Jonathan's soothing assurances did not satisfy David, and he 'sware' in the earnestness of his conviction. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
  • Because the learner has become competent with the short vowels, consonants, and consonant blends, he or she can now concentrate on mastering the long-vowel spelling forms.
  • He has learnt a smattering of Arabic and loves the convivial atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
  • They donated Vicki's heart for research so that experts can learn more about the rare condition.
  • A woman saved the life of her baby granddaughter only days after learning life-saving skills following a crash course in first aid at her local pub.
  • Next year, a 6 per cent rise in sales should allow IBM to grow earnings per share by 14 per cent.
  • I must learn to bite my lip.
  • Few chefs teach them and fewer have the inclination or time to learn. Times, Sunday Times
  • Uncle Fliakim Sheril, furbished up in a new crisp black suit, and with his spindleshanks trimly incased in the smoothest of black silk stockings, looking for all the world just like an alert and spirited black cricket, outdid himself on this occasion in singing _counter_, in that high, weird voice that he must have learned from the wintry winds that usually piped around the corners of the old house. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
  • In time the glazer will learn to measure the thickness by feeling it with a fingernail. 9. Glaze application
  • Older students are learning about entomophagy too.
  • Learn how to use the middle card strategy in playing the card game gin rummy from an expert card player in this free instructional video.
  • In this paper, it introduces the programming methods and characteristics of typer on screw, provides a more measures efficient way for learning the numerical control programming.
  • Professional rugby is a hard way to earn a crust - and an uncertain one.
  • Courses that emphasized crop production, pest management, and courses that emphasized experiential learning were frequently listed.
  • I am eager to learn how to ride a bicycle.
  • The surprise is learning that even when a school's moderation process is proved faulty under the NCEA, students can still retain their inflated marks.
  • The majority of the new settlers lived in rural areas and earned their living through farming.
  • The more customers that sign up, the more profitable this company becomes, since it earns interest on escrowed payroll taxes from customers.
  • In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail. 
  • Learn to separate scientific information from rumor and myth.
  • He was quick to learn and was literate in both English and Irish and had a good understanding of the Brehan law.
  • Do you yearn for something slightly more annoying? Times, Sunday Times
  • Elroy is surprised to learn that the gardens are not fables but space stations that orbit the Earth and are run by a much-feared Lord, who seeks out Wiggles for taking the forbidden fruit - an apple, natch. 4/06 UPDATE: My New Year's Resolution
  • I would also argue that the results Kumon reports achieving have little to do with their philosophy and practice about teaching and learning and much more to do with the fact that it gets parents and assistants as its teachers are called genuinely involved in children's learning. Ellen Galinsky: Fast-Tracking to Kindergarten? How About a Good Track to Learning in Kindergarten and Beyond?
  • 'I knew a case once where an heir who expected a large sum of money was bequeathed a family Bible, which he threw into the fire, learning afterwards, to his dismay, that it contained many thousands of pounds in Bank of England notes, the object of the devisor being to induce the legatee to read the good Book or suffer through the neglect of it.' The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont
  • The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. 
  • She will have to learn to behave properly.
  • The reason economists are sympathetic to signalling is that they are very smart (yes, really) and are among the people who probably don't benefit greatly from college, they learned how to think at high school and are mostly self-educated anyway. Free Education Valued at Cost, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • I would argue that the way engineering students learn to think is especially valuable.
  • His administration has earned low marks for its economic policies.
  • Yet on very busy days the students will be under stress and unable to concentrate on learning new skills.
  • She goes from being a Southern belle, who's never been able to do anything practical, to someone who learns to survive under the most terrible circumstances of war and deprivation.
  • She speaks earnestly, thoughtfully and funnily about how we are all ‘differently abled ‘in one way or another.’
  • But you're a sure meat-eater, an 'I'll learn you. THE MEAT
  • Donnelly's PNAC report -- a blueprint followed faithfully by the Bush Administration -- openly yearned for a "new Pearl Harbor" that would "catalyze" the American people into adopting PNAC's global militarist agenda wholesale. Undefined
  • Through observational learning you have acquired a great number of behaviors that you could potentially produce but never do.
  • To get out of the comfort zone is to grow, learn and advance for a better future. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • He was called to the Irish bar in 1951 and has earned a reputation as an esteemed playwright, poet and biographer.
  • He would not learn here that the law deals in objective truth, that it is concerned with fact.
  • Thus, in the Western philosophical tradition, occasionalists in the proper sense of the term emerge in earnest in the wake of René Descartes (1596 “ 1650) in the form of “Cartesian occasionalists”. Occasionalism
  • That was a trick you learned early, from the regimental bonzes who instructed noblemen's sons. Do you ever read writing?
  • While the difficulty of this work makes specialization in agency organization most desirable, in this complex and uncertain world we learn more by being uncertain. Taking Child Abuse Seriously: Contemporary issues in child protection theory and practice
  • “Night and day praying exceedingly,” that is, praying out of measure, with intense earnestness, superabundantly, beyond measure, exceeding abundantly. The Weapon of Prayer
  • A considerable amount of tax collection is now done, in effect, by casinos; rather than raise taxes to pay for services, legislatures legalize gambling and then take a rake-off from the profits earned by private casino companies. The Sack of Washington
  • I repeated it easily; I'd always been a fast learner with languages.
  • That which is evil is soon learnt
  • But its record suggests it will continue to earn enhanced returns by adopting the proactive approach. Times, Sunday Times
  • Better not to ignore the past but learn from it instead. Otherwise, history has a way of repeating itself.
  • It takes great discipline to learn a musical instrument.
  • Your Honours, apropos of what our learned friend said about the Justice's judgment, in our submission, it highlights the error.
  • It has just enhanced its service to learn from the results you choose to view and can apply case-sensitive and punctuation-sensitive rules to a set of Google search results. Internet News: Current Awareness Archives
  • What we will learn over the next five weeks is whether it is the whole southern hemisphere that remains significantly ahead, or just one nation within it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Small groups allow people to interact, discuss and ask questions, which maximizes integration of learning.
  • It is never too late to learn
  • Unhealthy waterways and wetlands mean more midges and mozzies; another reason to keep our Hearns Lake foreshores safe from human occupation.
  • Basically I just relearnt all the stuff from when I was 6 - not even scales or anything, just little tunes and only just beginning to play with both hands together. Sheepdip Diary Entry
  • We didn't commit to any blocking and did the 13-hour drive to Winnipeg learning the lines.
  • I learned to type before I learned to write cursively and I loathe paper ... Boing Boing: December 22, 2002 - December 28, 2002 Archives
  • Analysts had expected it to earn 36 cents a share, the average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research.
  • The earnings announcement came before the opening of trading on the Madrid Stock Exchange.
  • Use it to get info at an accident site or learn the treatments at leisure. Times, Sunday Times
  • Learn that to love is the one way to know Or God or man.
  • The so-called audience learns about the proposer herself, measures her credibility, considers her ideas, and deepens her understanding of the current exigency as the rhetor sees it.
  • They earn enough to buy what they need themselves. The Sun
  • Any public expression of their faith was considered dangerous, and they had learned to dissimulate their specific Christian identity.
  • Now go and Google "Durga" - a primarily Hindu "great goddess" figure - and maybe you will learn something about the intercultural aspects of Islam while you are at it. Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • But, hey, the show is so earnest and eager to please that such things are almost easy to overlook.
  • But this is a small town as typical as anywhere else in the American heartland: earnest, churchy, amiable, inward-looking, bland, conformist, trusting.
  • You can earn up to £65 per week tax-free.
  • It won't be until that age that they've earned enough money to enable them to live a simple life in retirement.
  • Each camp featured league play in two divisions, where the campers put into practice what they had learned throughout the week.
  • If, through their labors to transform misava into masimu, women established traditional tenure rights not explicitly recognized by patriliny, then likewise, through the everyday habits of farming, women learned, performed, and nurtured relationships that overlapped with, but ranged far beyond, blood - and marriage-based patrilineal kinship. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • Euripus. 93 We do but learn, today, what our better advanced judgments will unteach tomorrow; and Religio Medici
  • Economic statistics: Labour market statistics: average earnings.
  • She earned £2 000in commission last month.
  • •If you've been following the fate of Men in Trees (ABC, 10 ET/PT), it won't surprise you to learn this now-canceled series — always an ABC afterthought — is being dropped into the network's summer schedule to complete its run. Critic's Corner Wednesday
  • In several brain regions associated with "sensorimotor" learning, the researchers detected a gray-matter boost on the order of 3.5% to 5% for the new golfers. Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea
  • A less ambitious painter would have been content merely to bask in the glory that his canvases had earned him.
  • I had mixed feelings when I learned of your new assignment. Although we will miss you, we have to admit that management has made a wise choice in placing you where they can benefit most from your talents. We will long remember the hard work and happy moments we have shared. You have been a great team member. Best wishes and keep up the good work.
  • I do know they will be interesting people and I'm bound to learn something valuable from them.
  • There were no institutions of higher learning except for an obscure agricultural college in Mogilev province.
  • However after learning Yang great wild goose this factory arms the security office staff status truly, the new hundred personnel depart low-spirited.
  • Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself.
  • Learning how to simultaneously walk and chew gum will soon be added to the menu of anile crap that our self-regarding progressive school system 'facilitates'. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
  • Any golfer who qualified for the Tour had assuredly earned and paid for the privilege.
  • These relate to changes in self-concept, life experiences, readiness to learn and orientation to learning.
  • They came to learn about the plane that could fly faster than a bullet, faster than the earth rotated.
  • Why, I wonder, don't these novels ever depict a brave new world that's learned its lesson, one that's loving and gentle instead of harsh and brutal?
  • Internal representation and language development facilitate the development of truly social behavior and spark social learning.
  • Learn how to use field marks, habitat, behavior, and song to identify birds.
  • Many prefer to keep their cash as long as possible rather than let the energy giants earn interest on it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Pickles has earned widespread plaudits since taking office for his energetic and radical approach to reforming local government. Times, Sunday Times
  • Conference attendees will learn how to use green infrastructure to make cities better places to live.
  • They would help the communities learn which of their organizational traditions are most useful for stand control, for coordinating woodcutting in specific places, and perhaps for distributing the fruits of harvesting the forest.
  • As you have learned from this article, JPA provides an easy way to persist data in your applications.
  • Persistent deflation has crimped corporate earnings and worsened the government's deficit.
  • Learn to trust the ankle support designed into a high cuff in-line skate.
  • Appears Maliki is learning some very undemocratic behavior from our very own “overreacher.” Think Progress » Hadley Ducks Question Over Whether Rumsfeld Suggestion Is ‘Cutting And Running’
  • The most beneficial effect of the power moon is being able to learn from the past without letting it hold you back. The Sun
  • He learned to recognize pneumonia, bronchiectasis, pleurisy, emphysema, pneumothorax, phthisis, and other lung diseases from the sounds he heard with his stethoscope.
  • Unlike most places in the world, learn to sail packages from sailing schools are available in Oz all year round!
  • Learn important lessons from this that will stand you in good stead the rest of your life. The Sun
  • In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail. 
  • When you go to a conference you can sit in a room all morning and feel like you've heard all the speeches before," says Ian Usher, e-learning co-ordinator with Buckinghamshire county council and a TeachMeet organiser. Bett 2011 | In search of leadership
  • Before a child can learn a musical instrument he or she first needs to acquire the necessary manipulative skills.
  • The purpose: to present an award recognizing special achievement in the fight against a learning disability known as dyslexia.
  • I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau 
  • By resorting to nonwar means of achieving his objectives, he would earn worldwide acclamation and gratitude by letting peace prevail, following the wise old saying, "Discretion is the better part of valor. Mail Call: Show Us The Proof
  • I give more credit to the nameless women who settled the frontier and thus earned the right to vote in western states.

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