How to Use cash cow in a Sentence

cash cow

noun
  • The movie studio saw the actress as a cash cow.
  • The football team was a cash cow for the university.
  • Now, those might be a real cash cow.
    — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Oh, and there's cash cow Google Search, too.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Yet, will Pacquiao, still a cash cow of the sport, be around?
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The market was to be more of a social mission than a cash cow.
    — Michele Herrmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2020
  • The fees have become somewhat of a cash cow over the past 20 years.
    — Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Football, of course, is the cash cow for most college programs.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 23 Mar. 2020
  • For their long-term survival, both broadcast and cable news have the cash cow of live sports.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Only if the Joneses were to sell their cash cow could such a thing happen.
    — Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2022
  • But the story of a politician looking to turn her seat into a cash cow isn’t mine.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 16 Oct. 2020
  • State data show that heavy payday loan users are the industry’s cash cow.
    — Lawrence Mower, miamiherald, 4 Feb. 2018
  • The money prints aren’t the only cash cows in this collection.
    — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Those self-driving cars are the ideal cash cow for chipmakers.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Google, afraid to mess with its cash cow, initially took a more cautious approach.
    — Katie Robertson, New York Times, 1 June 2024
  • Prop 64 was sold to the voters as a cash cow of revenue for schools and services.
    — John Ramos, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Boyd has certainly been a cash cow for the Bengals on third down this season.
    — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The broadcaster is the cash cow, which does allow for the broadcaster to have a say.
    — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • The fees have become somewhat of a cash cow for banks over the past 20 years, some experts have said.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Critics fear the lack of clear markings will turn unaware drivers into cash cows.
    — Matt Cannon, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Regional sports networks, a cash cow for leagues and mainstay for fans, were in a perilous state.
    — Ben Strauss, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • The Big Ten could expand to 100 teams and no one would mess with that cash cow.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The people running the tournaments don't want to kick them out, because that's their cash cow.
    — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Sports Action's payments, which were tied to the lottery's profits, were a boost but not a cash cow.
    — Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 24 May 2018
  • These included the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, which would have been the cash cow of a Kurdish state.
    — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
  • The new commissioner needs to be well-versed in the ins and outs of the biggest cash cow, college football.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Cricket in September isn’t always a cash cow.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • And to add to that, attempts to turn trash services and parking into cash cows have met with extreme public push-back.
    — Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • And now, online stock trading, once a cash cow for Wall Street, has gone commission-free.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Yet they have been forced to grab the hind legs of the CFP cash cow and hold on, together, for dear life.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024

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