How to Use gain in a Sentence

gain

1 of 2 noun
  • The medication can cause nausea and weight gain.
  • No longer-term gains were put on hold.
    — Julie Coleman, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • That was a tremendous gain for us.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
  • That was a tremendous gain for us, right?
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Price gains are preferred as well.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Whether those gains will last remains to be seen.
    — Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Wage gains have been slowing over the past two years.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 12 May 2026
  • The pace of wage gains has been slowing over the past two years.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 12 May 2026
  • That’s a 3% gain from the week prior.
    — Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
  • So any gain in VO2 max is a win.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Last month saw three gains and two losses of at least 1%.
    — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Only the top 30% would still see a gain.
    — Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Roth then had a 20-yard gain to set up Ivy’s score.
    — Bernie Wilson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • That accounts for the gain in the investor share.
    — Diana Olick, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But the crypto has since given up those gains.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 9 June 2026
  • At the same time, income gains have been modest.
    — Mike Winters, CNBC, 10 Apr. 2026
  • In the early stages, the gains are subtle.
    — Michael Wystrach, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Is rapid weight gain the cause of the patient’s distress?
    — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • The worst loss in that time has been 29%, while the best gain was 4%.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 19 May 2026
  • Strong consumer spending helped drive the gain.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Tuesday’s move higher marked the stock’s sixth straight day of gains.
    — Sean Conlon, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The worst loss in that time has been 29%, while the best gain was 4%.
    — Liz Napolitano,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 18 May 2026
  • Prentiss was awed by the gains one of his favorite clients made over four months.
    — Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Total gains over the year-to-date topped 107%.
    — Dylan Butts,victoria Yeo, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
  • These gains have since stalled, however.
    — Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • With greater gains in test scores for Black and Latino kids.
    — Sacramento Bee Staff, Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Businesses could see big gains.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Each room must have enough heat and cooling to offset the heat loss and heat gain for that room.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The gains mark a stark contrast from their performance this year.
    — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2023
  • For the first time in three years, inflation is eating up all wage gains.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 12 May 2026

gain

2 of 2 verb
  • What do you hope to gain from this?
  • We were unable to gain admission to the club.
  • I took the job to gain experience.
  • They had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
  • We need to gain a better understanding of the problem.
  • He first gained attention as a young writer.
  • They stand to gain an advantage over their competitors by getting an early start.
  • Investigators are trying to gain access to the group's financial records.
  • Her theories are slowly gaining acceptance.
  • Shares have gained 2% this year.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The stock has gained 63% in six months.
    — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Ideas that gain traction are scaled.
    — London School Of Economics, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • That is when people gain an hour of sleep.
    — Chris Sims, Louisville Courier Journal, 7 Mar. 2026
  • That is when people gain an hour of sleep.
    — Chris Sims, IndyStar, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Those numbers will not gain them many style points.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • CoreWeave shares have gained 53% in the past three months.
    — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 6 May 2026
  • What is lost by gaining and gained by losing?
    — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • Netflix stands a lot to gain from it, after all.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Bhatia has gained strokes around the green and with the putter.
    — Dennis Esser, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The deal was struck with the aim of gaining support from both sides.
    — Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 2 June 2023
  • Our city would gain immensely from this bill.
    — Anthony Tordillos, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
  • Shares have gained nearly 200% year to date.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Both of those ideas have failed to gain traction with Democrats in the past.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 16 June 2026
  • All the others have gained release.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The phone bans that are gaining steam in schools across the country are a great thing.
    — Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Democrats need to gain a net of four seats to take the majority.
    — Thomas Beaumont, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
  • These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 3 June 2026
  • Or, what does the narcissist have to gain by doing this?
    — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But in the past few weeks, the momentum been gaining speed.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Exxon Mobil and Chevron each gained more than 1%.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2026

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