Profitably
['prɔfitəbli]
Examples
- Come, Watson, I fancy that we may employ ourselves more profitably at home. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His will was now, to take the coal out of the earth, profitably. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They did not realize that the demand for cotton cloth was far greater than the supply, and that they could all be profitably employed operating the spinning-jenny. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- By the cyanide process, in which cyanide of potassium is used as a solvent for the gold, low-grade ores can be profitably worked. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Three or four months were spent pleasantly and profitably by the youth in this course of study, and Edison took to it enthusiastically, giving it no less than eighteen hours a day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- My time was now well and profitably filled up. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But such devices may be profitably used for more peaceful and amusing purposes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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