How to Use cash cow in a Sentence

cash cow

noun
Definition of cash cownext
  • But with this cash cow has come a problem: the need to keep milking it.
    — Fortune, 18 July 2019
  • Corporate access is one of the few cash cows left for banks and their research departments.
    — Liz Hoffman, WSJ, 26 June 2019
  • The blockbuster treatment has been one of Celgene’s most reliable cash cows.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 22 July 2019
  • Drugs like the blood thinner Xarelto and eye treatment Eylea are reliable cash cows.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 22 June 2019
  • Like how to genetically engineer a cash cow, but others will be thinking more like mad cow.
    — SFChronicle.com, 28 July 2019
  • In a world where live sports remain television’s cash cow, could competitive pillow fighting be the next big thing?
    — Peter White, Deadline, 24 June 2024
  • Few vehicles have been such cash cows for their makers, either; consider how long ago the R&D for that platform must have been amortized.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 July 2019
  • Sales of its cash cow, the F-Series pickup, had plummeted as gas prices surged and construction activity froze.
    — Freep.com, 11 July 2019
  • Alphabet’s cash cow has always been Google, and Google’s largest revenue driver has always been, by far, advertising.
    — Mike Murphy, Quartz, 25 July 2019
  • Engines are a massive drag on earnings and cash during the design and ramp-up stages—they are normally sold at a loss—but become a cash cow later as operators need repairs.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 20 June 2019
  • Most have few students relative to even bare-bones administrative costs, yet were seen prospectively as cash cows at their inception 20 years ago are now drains.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 30 June 2019
  • Investors and analysts had been disappointed by slowing advertising revenue growth — Google’s main cash cow — after the first quarter.
    — Washington Post, 25 July 2019
  • And companies best contribute to the common good by creating jobs and prosperity, not by serving as a cash cow for politically popular civic projects.
    — James Sutton, National Review, 13 June 2019
  • The iPhone, its longtime cash cow, has failed to find new homes in countries where there’s no affinity for Apple’s brand, especially when homegrown models can do the same things for far cheaper.
    — Mike Murphy, Quartz, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The event should be a cash cow for the Fort Worth area.
    — Dallas News, 5 June 2021
  • Yet, will Pacquiao, still a cash cow of the sport, be around?
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The fees have become somewhat of a cash cow over the past 20 years.
    — Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The Big Ten could expand to 100 teams and no one would mess with that cash cow.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The market was to be more of a social mission than a cash cow.
    — Michele Herrmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2020
  • Yet they have been forced to grab the hind legs of the CFP cash cow and hold on, together, for dear life.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The fees have become somewhat of a cash cow for banks over the past 20 years, some experts have said.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Only if the Joneses were to sell their cash cow could such a thing happen.
    — Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The broadcaster is the cash cow, which does allow for the broadcaster to have a say.
    — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • Football, of course, is the cash cow for most college programs.
    — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 23 Mar. 2020
  • For their long-term survival, both broadcast and cable news have the cash cow of live sports.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
  • At the heart of the current battle is Future Retail, the cash cow of Future Group.
    — Sherisse Pham, CNN, 29 Oct. 2020
  • But the story of a politician looking to turn her seat into a cash cow isn’t mine.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The new commissioner needs to be well-versed in the ins and outs of the biggest cash cow, college football.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Clinics like these aren’t cash cows for health systems.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 17 July 2023
  • And unlike most streaming rivals, Disney has a steady revenue stream from its theme parks—a cash cow for the business.
    — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 30 May 2024

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