How to Use gravy train in a Sentence

gravy train

noun
  • They're trying to get on board the gravy train.
  • Those are just some of the consumers who have been at the end of this gravy train.
    — Greg Petro, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
  • The award shows are doing their best to keep the gravy train going.
    — Avi Dan, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • Telling the truth would cost millions and would spoil every car on the gravy train.
    — Adam Graham, Boston Herald, 4 June 2026
  • End of an era, end of a business model, end of a gravy train, end of the world.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024
  • But nothing seems to stop the gravy train, not even the specter of being called out in print.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
  • But neither happened, and the tax-free gravy train continued to roll along.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The Bulldogs’ surge means the Gators’ gravy train reached its final stop.
    — Andrew Astleford, ajc, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Predictably, the action ebbed when the tide slacked and the fishes' gravy train stopped running.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The city of Miami is one of the worst examples of how the gravy train works.
    — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The movie's been available for streaming on Netflix for a while now, but the gravy train is about to end.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 20 June 2018
  • People and business of every description hopped aboard this gravy train.
    — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • But the sue-and-settle gravy train may soon be sidetracked — at least at the EPA.
    — Rob Gordon, National Review, 21 Oct. 2017
  • But most of the voices in the state capitol push for more revenue to keep the government gravy train running.
    — Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Practitioners of this time honored custom need to be put on notice that the gravy train has made its last stop.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Then there's figure skating, the sport that largely drives the NBC gravy train.
    — Paul Newberry, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2018
  • The gravy train keeps rolling for the men, and a couple women, who run Arizona's largest companies.
    — Russ Wiles, azcentral, 27 June 2019
  • Congressional Democrats frankly do not care whether their gravy train of spending will ever be financed.
    — Daniel J. Pilla, National Review, 29 Sep. 2021
  • At first, investors were throwing themselves at any opportunity to hop on the gravy train with the hope of cashing in big.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 25 June 2026
  • Mitchell’s cooperation spelled the end to a gravy train for himself and Bickers, who was then his boss and a long-time friend.
    — J. Scott Trubey, ajc, 23 Feb. 2022
  • If true, that would have ensured that friendly cronies made the final stop on the Venezuelan-debt gravy train before payments ceased.
    — The Economist, 3 Nov. 2017
  • But the vague threats to apply the brakes to the gravy train are unlikely to push the Kaczynski government to change.
    — Steven Erlanger and Marc Santora, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
  • However, the radical left has seen this coming, and has targeted Wyoming as the gravy train runs out.
    — Chuck Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Wall Street has a significant stake in keeping the mutual fund gravy train moving.
    — Andrew Lanoie, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Inside the Pentagon, there are distinct signs that the prime contractor gravy train might be slowing.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
  • In the meantime, taxpayers, who financed those debts, were left holding the bag while many high-earning borrowers rode the gravy train.
    — Beth Akers, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Neither of his successors have made catastrophic moves, but the gravy train of incoming stars has ended.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Thomas McCarthy as the top runner-up, at least until his tumble off the MSP gravy train last year.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Biden never tried, Europe has failed to bring Peace, and Zelenskyy probably wants to keep the 'gravy train' going.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Biden never tried, Europe has failed to bring Peace, and Zelenskyy probably wants to keep the ‘gravy train’ going.
    — Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 25 Feb. 2025

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