How to Use money pit in a Sentence

money pit

noun
  • The act has become a slow moving bureaucratic money pit.
    — Vincent Turley, Hartford Courant, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Many assume its American branch is a similar money pit.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Chosen without these considerations, what begins as a fun hobby project can quickly turn into a money pit, so some forethought is necessary.
    — Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The gaps don’t show up all at once Some financial problems start with big, obvious decisions—a house that becomes a money pit, a high-interest debt burden, a major life change.
    — Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Apr. 2026
  • YouTube has transformed from a money pit into a subscriber behemoth and legitimate television replacement earning over $60 billion a year.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 May 2026
  • While attitudes improved modestly this year, the fact remains that for many students, the traditional path to a post-secondary degree is a money pit, which explains why more young people are gravitating toward skilled-trade careers.
    — Bob Carey, Boston Herald, 20 Dec. 2025
  • At hotels, which have been ditching items like free soaps and even bathroom doors to economize, the free breakfast is a sacred cow that some worry will not survive, increasingly seen by hotel operators as an money pit eating into the thin margins of the business.
    — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 15 Feb. 2026

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