How to Use sweat equity in a Sentence

sweat equity

noun
  • He's built up a lot of sweat equity in his house.
  • He put countless hours of sweat equity into that old house.
  • The dark age ideas of work as drudgery and sweat equity no longer hold up.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The same task can be accomplished with a pruning saw and sweat equity.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The same task can be accomplished with a pruning saw and sweat equity.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
  • Then there is the tremendous sweat equity parents put into the school.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 18 May 2024
  • Loyd was willing to invest that sweat equity because she was driven to be the best.
    — Matt Le Cren, chicagotribune.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • There are a lot of people with a lot of sweat equity in this from the rehab perspective and so forth.
    — Brian Mahoney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Lindsay spent a lot of her time and sweat equity on creating her product.
    — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Brooks performed for about two-and-a-half hours with his band, displaying ample sweat equity on stage.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 4 June 2022
  • All the partners put in the sweat equity that turned a former hardware store into a brewery.
    — Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2018
  • The park was a vehicle for securing buy-in and sweat equity for ideas with potential.
    — Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • Each family that is going to buy a house is required to put in 300-plus sweat equity hours.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 19 Apr. 2020
  • Career success doesn’t have to come at the expense of sweat equity, burnout or loss of mental or physical health.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • All three had been in the building since the nineteen-nineties, when sweat equity was still expected of new residents.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The Jags’ road to the conference-championship game was plowed in the sweat equity of its defense.
    — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Some drug users have racked up some sweat equity with do-it-yourself projects, sawing a cutout in a room's floorboard and covering with an area rug.
    — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 9 Apr. 2018
  • My dad put in a tremendous amount of sweat equity into painting the multi-colored sticks in Hildi’s room.
    — Alyssa Fiorentino, House Beautiful, 1 June 2018
  • There are sweat equity hours helping build either the home-owner’s house and another of our applicants’ home.
    — Penny Seater, Orlando Sentinel, 30 June 2024
  • Forget their sweat equity and their cultural contributions - the music and food, the art and dance.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Jasmine Sadler and Erika Wise don’t own a home, and both have had to fund their startups out of sweat equity and savings.
    — Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The combination of touch, a quick release and sweat equity quietly molded him into one of the country’s best.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • But many of the squats, including the ones on 13th Street, were made livable, even desirable, through years of sweat equity.
    — Dan Kois, Curbed, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The effort is a small price to pay for additional compensation for all the time, energy and sweat equity spent to play college sports.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 24 June 2021
  • By that point, the project was moving along but still fragile, dependent on the sweat equity of O’Connor than any real resources.
    — Jimmy Jellinek, SPIN, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Before the surge, the woman born Amerylus Cooper had put days and nights of sweat equity into opening the center.
    — Kenan Draughornestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2022
  • For the good will from his sweat equity, Robbie offered Jones a minority interest in the team.
    — Barry Horn, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Mezar earned it by volunteering more than 600 hours of sweat equity, helping build his home and several others.
    — Stephen Magagnini, sacbee, 4 Nov. 2017
  • What the program asks of you in return The 200 hours of sweat equity is the part of the program that surprises some applicants.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 June 2026
  • The model for young chefs was once to find a small spot in an up-and-coming neighborhood in Boston or Cambridge, add sweat equity and dreams, and build a business.
    — Alison Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2022

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