Sentence examples for earning me from inspiring English sources

Mostly, I have had brief affairs with men of various nationalities, earning me the nickname "the U.N".

The magazine never paid me, but my bylines drew assignments at better publications, ultimately earning me regular work covering equine medicine and horse-industry issues at Equus.

Spending my adult life in an indie bubble, my Bonophilia felt like it was earning me some kind of bizarre anti-cool.

Dave politely asks me to slow down after I take a short jump too fast, earning me a jokey reputation as a young hoon that sticks for the rest of the weekend.

But right now I am in the middle of a book that is earning me my own share of glowers from the F-train gang: the short story collection "Self-Help," by Lorrie Moore, a series of elegiac how-tos for the lovelorn.

Finally, he wrote to her in a tone that, for him, amounted to frothing rage: "I would like to remind you that it was because of me that a considerable number of very important paintings have been sold here in America, and that these sales have cost me a huge amount of work without earning me a dime".

It never earned me a living.

His lip earned me good money".

I had hoped this gig might earn me grocery money.

This quip earned me only a thin smile.

That doesn't earn me much respect does it?