How to use "business" in a sentence

They work in the same business, too

Bubba was dead, the shrimp business idea was dead with him

And I got into the wrestling business

'I'm going home, and I'm going to start a shrimp business.'

Take Sue back to Alabama with you, and start your shrimp business.' He shook my hand and gave me his address

Two days later, Sue and I got the bus to Bayou La Batre, where Bubba's parents lived, and I explained to Bubba's daddy about the shrimp business that Bubba and I planned to start after we came out of the army

And the next day he took Sue and me out in his little boat, to look for a good place to start the shrimp business.

It was the beginning of my shrimp business

Well, we talked about Mom and the shrimp business and everything

The business was doing well, but I asked myself, 'What are you doing all this for?' And I knew that I had to get away.

'The business will be here when you want it again.'

'Donald works in a business here in Savannah

'Mom wrote and told me about your shrimp business, and how rich you were.'

First I phoned Mr Tribble and told him to give some of my money from the shrimp business to my Mom, and some to Bubba's daddy.

And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual

Recognition of that falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing

'What a sad story it is! A young man like that suddenly gives up his business and retires from the world.'

'Have you heard why Mr Meltham left his business?' I asked.

She also had a packing case business in the cellar at the back of the house

Her son, John, helped her in the business but he did not live in Hanbury Street

But on October 3rd shopkeepers complained that they were losing a lot of business because people were afraid to go out shopping.

'I have important business to attend to

Entertainers and traders from Paris set up their stalls in the streets, and business at the Thenardiers' inn was very good

Finally, he looked up from the bill without expression and said, 'Tell me, is business good here in Montfermeil?'

But now he understood that Jondrette's business was writing dishonest letters, asking for money from people he imagined were wealthier than himself.

'When the old man and the girl arrive, let them start their business

'That's what you rich people call people like me, isn't it? Just because I've failed in business

Valjean had gone away on business for a couple of days, and Cosette was in the downstairs sitting room, playing the piano.

When Jean Valjean returned from his business the following day, Cosette told him about the noises in the garden

He understood business, but he could not understand the problems of poor people

Valjean replied that he was very well, but that he had business to attend to

I'm a business man, not a gangster

And sometimes I have to do things to protect my business

"It's been hard for her, all this business about Uncle Eston

Five years ago, however, on her twenty-eighth birthday, she began to realize that she had, if she was lucky, ten years left as a show dancer, and she decided to establish herself in the business in another capacity, to avoid being washed up at thirty-eight

Show business, in any form, was a merciless enterprise.

He had become not just a valued business associate, but a good friend as well, a big brother.

Everyone in show business knew that non-paying preview crowds were among the toughest to please

"I was in the hotel on business

Still puzzled but beginning to get impatient with her, Elliot said, "My business wasn't on the third floor

Tina kept a well-stocked bar in one corner of her office for those infrequent occasions when a business associate needed a drink after a long work session

Owen West and I opened for business in a cheap storefront office twelve years ago, right at the start of the biggest boom this town has ever seen

This is national security business, pal, the biggest of the big time

Kevin's parents went away from the city immediately after the funeral, intending to spend a month at their summerhouse in the country, where they could be free from the press of business and social duties, the better to mourn their lost child

Harry had been surprised to discover that not all of the people in the espionage business shared his ultraconservative political views

It was a dirty piece of business right from the start."

They traveled an additional quarter of a mile before Luciano Bellicosti's home and place of business came into sight on the left, beyond a black-bordered sign that grandiosely stated the nature of the service that he provided: FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND GRIEF COUNSELOR

I knew this whole business was too dirty to end any way but disaster." He sighed, as if a great weight had been lifted from him

I was so young and naive, I assumed "network-approved writers" meant that each of these writers would be among the finest in the TV business, on the planet, in the universe, the elite of the elite, the crS232; me de la crS232; me, superexcellent wordsmiths incapable of spinning any story that wasn't the top, the ower of Pisa, the Mona Lisa, the Louvre Museum, the Colosseum! Network-approved writers! I was in the lap of God, in the hands of ministering angels, and there could be no doubt whatsoever that we would have a hit with Help, My Feet Are Stuck to the Floor in Dean Koontz's Theater or whatever it would be called.

The first network head is no longer in the business

The second network head is no longer in the business

The development executive in charge of the project is no longer in the business

I would not be surprised to learn that one of the network-approved writers is in prison for crimes of a particularly perverse nature committed against small woodland animals - and I know that at least a couple of them are no longer in the business

The studio executive who brought the project to the network is, I am told, no longer in the business

Ah, the glamour of show business.

'If he comes on business in this weather, it's important,' said Sherlock Holmes

March 12th Visited Robinson and finished business with him.

"finished business with him", or killed him

'Your brother is a professor, yes? Is his work connected with your business?'

'I have a strange feeling that this business with the flies holds the answer to the whole mystery, Monsieur Delambre,' he said.

Henri had just proved that Charas seemed to be getting close to some kind of clue in this business with the flies.

'That, Inspector, is my business.'

It seems to me almost unbelievably wonderful that, with that danger threatening us, people could continue their ordinary business as they did

'I suppose it's my business to see it too

Your private life is not my business, but you just said yourself that you wanted a man of your own

I am going to London next week on government business, so if you bring me the details of the machine, I shall get her the motor.'

She could not discuss the whole business with Mercy, and James always took Mercy's side

'I never took you seriously on that car business.'

'She wrote this to her second husband, Mr Philip Fairlie, when he was in London on business

I have to go away on urgent business

'It's none of Miss Halcombe's business!' said Sir Percival.

'Excuse me,' I said, 'but, as a witness to the signature, it is my business

Her father had a small business, and they lived in a large house

Many men in the film and TV business have been accused of harassing women, and of sexual assault.

Women are now working in large numbers, and they are also becoming leaders in business and politics.

Women are becoming leaders in business, but equal pay is still a big problem

Later, Nancy's father made a lot of money in business, and the children were able to get an education

At the same time, famous men in the film business, like Harvey Weinstein, were accused of harassing and assaulting women - and men in TV and politics have also been accused of these crimes

Because of this, everyone learned that there is a lot of sexual assault in the film business