How to Use lucre in a Sentence

lucre

noun
  • But these efforts and many others take time, and don’t rake in the lucre.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Of course, there are other factors at play here besides filthy lucre.
    — Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The stakes are much too high to leave these things to chance, or to the lucre-sniffing incentives of capital.
    — WIRED, 21 Oct. 2022
  • That's a lot of lucre for someone who is into grandstanding rather than governing.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 12 Apr. 2021
  • If the one is vilified for its worship of filthy lucre, the other is tarred by its worship of frivolous lamé.
    — New York Times, 27 May 2021
  • Corporations pump so much lucre into the state’s coffers that there’s no sales taxes on anything.
    — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Each of The Times’ stories ended with the rosy thought that this would surely be beloved by the locals and make great heaps of lucre.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2021
  • Stanley dealers were not in cutthroat competition for filthy lucre.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The well-to-do weren’t jetting off to spread their lucre elsewhere, parching Sacramento’s coffers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The lucre of cotton prompted plantations in the American South to turn to the African slave trade.
    — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
  • And the Pandora Papers revealed that there is a small army of stateside lawyers ready to come to the aid of those who need to keep their filthy lucre hidden.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Broadway is constantly accused of abandoning its storied, artistic past in a current embrace of filthy lucre.
    — Author: Elizabeth L. Wollman, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2020
  • The Arabic-language sources vary on many of the details but leave an unmistakable impression of lucre the likes of which have rarely been seen anywhere.
    — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
  • But the increasingly big business of college sports is driven, more than ever, by football’s television lucre.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Such lucre would indicate an industry in good health, and nobody’s losing money in the big leagues, from owners to executives to players.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Rosamund Pike, playing the spirit of loving filthy lucre over life itself, elevates a standard villain through the high timing of her theatrical hauteur.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The industry’s surpassing love of lucre beyond all else doesn’t only infect political coverage.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • And now, thanks to the Biden administration’s move, the United States has taken a clear step back—and opened the door once more for foreign regimes flooding these think tanks with their lucre.
    — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 12 May 2023
  • Still, these players could be earning much more, if only the schools themselves, who are showering in lucre provided by media-rights contracts, gate receipts, and other sources, were allowed to share revenue with them.
    — Time, 6 June 2023
  • Even then, companies were trading user experience for advertising lucre.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Stateless people do not elect officials, enjoy diplomatic representation, or possess the lucre of a corporate lobby.
    — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Stateless people do not elect officials, enjoy diplomatic representation, or possess the lucre of a corporate lobby.
    — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2020
  • For now, though, Detroit’s automakers are leaning into the lucre that comes from selling millions of fossil-fuel vehicles in a rare moment of loosened regulation.
    — Bloomberg, Oc Register, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Director Gillespie’s random visual effects (matching tabloid newspaper fonts to Cruella’s celebrity pranks) miss the excitement of luxe and filthy lucre.
    — Armond White, National Review, 28 May 2021
  • Recently, the college has been advised to make still deeper cuts to the language departments, which are said to not only distract students but to actively harm them by inducing an interest in anything other than lucre.
    — Charles Petersen, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
  • They were replaced by Middlesbrough, who will play Hull City on Saturday for the right to be promoted to the Premier League and the vast lucre that comes with it.
    — Dan Shanoff, New York Times, 20 May 2026
  • Along with the significant lucre, Wheeler factored all that into his decision to head south from Queens to Philly after the 2019 season.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Does this ragtag band of misfits, coached by a renegade named Goona (Maisie Williams), stand a chance against a bunch of hot shots with flowing locks, fancy uniforms, and all the talent and training that Nooth’s lucre can buy?
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Meanwhile, Hollywood and its progressive ilk continue pumping enormous amounts of lucre into that state in a flagrant attempt to influence the vote, which, of course, prompts the GOP to plead for more and more.
    — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 26 Dec. 2020

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