Synonym: deserve, gain, get, make, merit, obtain, require, secure. Antonym: consume, spend. Similar words: yearn, learn, learned, earnest, earnings, learn from, early warning, year after year. Meaning: [ɜːn] 
v. 1. earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages 2. acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions.
v. 1. earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages 2. acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions. 
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121. If you grant my request, you will earn my thanks.
122. Your salary is chicken-feed compared to what you could earn in America.
123. Before liberation he had to pull a rickshaw to earn a little money.
124. Our immediate goal is to earn enough money to keep the business going.
125. They barely earn enough to maintain themselves and their four children.
126. New teachers have to earn/gain the respect of their students.
127. If I average out what I earn a month, it's about one and a half thousand pounds.
128. Your money would earn more in a high - interest account.
129. I earn enough to push the boat out now and again.
130. The more you save, the more interest you'll earn .
131. Sports stars earn big bucks for pushing everything from shoes to soft drinks.
132. He did not earn enough to keep a wife and children.
133. In our culture,(Sentencedict) it is rude to ask someone how much they earn.
134. He wished to earn a living through writing but despaired of doing so.
135. The film is long and dramatic but does not quite earn the epithet 'epic'.
136. If you earn more than ￡5000, you will have to pay tax.
137. She has a staff of four who collectively earn almost $200 000.
138. The most they earn in a day is ten roubles.
139. The need to earn some money put the brakes on my wilder ambitions.
140. My income's rather variable, but I earn £73 a day on average.
141. Ray will earn his keep on local farms while studying.
142. It's about time you got a job to earn your keep.
143. I think the lawyer's just stringing out the case so that he'll earn more money.
144. The city's housing costs were enough to earn it a ranking of 66th nationally.
145. I don't earn a huge salary, but we get by.
146. She did some modelling as a student to earn a bit of money.
147. Her dream was to earn her living as a singer.
148. He's old enough now to earn his keep and stop living off his parents.
149. I make it no secret that our worst consultants earn nothing.
150. How much do you earn, if you don't mind me asking?