How to Use fringe benefit in a Sentence

fringe benefit

noun
  • There has been a fringe benefit to Dunk’s time off.
    — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
  • And there's a fringe benefit to having a party that's just a couple of hours or so.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2020
  • The fringe benefits included in the fare vary widely from line to line.
    — Christian L. Wright, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Maybe the Wii is just a fringe benefit of some other, bigger scheme.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Those cases that offered a chance to twinkle were a fringe benefit.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2021
  • The program has fringe benefits for others, too.
    — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Coaches will receive fringe benefits on top of their annaul salaries.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 May 2026
  • He was supposed to be paid roughly $23 an hour plus $20 in fringe benefits.
    — John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The case for treating these mansions as a nontaxable fringe benefit has always been weak.
    — WSJ, 14 Oct. 2018
  • Of all of the professional fringe benefits available today, surfers have some of the best.
    — Mackenzie Wagoner, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2018
  • That number doesn’t include fringe benefits.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Plus there are some fringe benefits, apart from the opportunity to collect more gold.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
  • Those are just the fringe benefits to being a cut above the rest and a Kardashian family member.
    — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 17 Jan. 2018
  • That this repackaging means opening Joyce up to new experience comes to seem like more than a fringe benefit.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Taxes and fringe benefit costs would be subtracted from the $300, Poore said.
    — Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 20 July 2021
  • My birthday visit to the symphony also brought a welcome fringe benefit.
    — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The failure of public agencies to pay taxes on fringe benefits puts the agencies at risk for a substantial bill for back taxes.
    — Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
  • If nonbusiness guests, such as family, ride along on a business flight, it’s treated as a fringe benefit, which is taxable.
    — Paul Kiel, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Gifting cash to employees for the holidays would not be considered a fringe benefit.
    — Tom Cooney and Crystal Faulkner, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Gifting cash to employees for the holidays would not be considered a fringe benefit.
    — Tom Cooney and Crystal Faulkner, Cincinnati.com, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Perhaps relatability to players was a fringe benefit of the turnover.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Lamont wants to change that so the state will cover a portion of the fringe benefit costs for all higher education employees.
    — Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2023
  • De minimus fringe benefits are tax-deductible, and many businesses use an informal cutoff of $75 per gift.
    — Tom Cooney and Crystal Faulkner, Cincinnati.com, 19 Dec. 2019
  • All of those guys were arguably somewhat uncomfortable with the exposure their sport had brought them, and were far more driven by the game itself than any of the fringe benefits.
    — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Finding a new relationship between Saturn and its water-bearing moon is a fringe benefit of the mission.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2018
  • This new corner of the labor market features a lot of freedom and flexibility, sure, but also less-than-stellar wages and few if any fringe benefits.
    — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 11 June 2018
  • His vision of improving New York always included a few fringe benefits for himself.
    — Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 2 Jan. 2026
  • One fringe benefit of embarking on such a massive casting process is that Telsey, Canfield, and their team already had the right sides to read everybody.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Entering the labor market in tough times, millennials earn lower wages and have fewer fringe benefits than gen-Xers and late baby boomers did as young adults.
    — Erin Arvedlund, Philly.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • But a big fringe benefit is to get public credit — and to use an improved image to fend off government efforts to more heavily regulate the industry.
    — David Gelles, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020

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