Sentence examples for had once earned from inspiring English sources

She had once earned a biweekly salary of $620.

A skilled poker player, Ian held his own in games against the head of department, Gwyther Irwin, who reputedly had once earned his living playing poker.

The other had trimmed brown hair and pale skin; he wore thick glasses that had once earned him the nickname Spectacles.

He was not a political prisoner being abused by an autocratic state; he was a night watchman who had once earned thirty dollars a month for guarding a gated community in Nairobi.

She had also been told by reliable sources at the paper that, as managing editor, she had once earned less than the managing editor of news operations, John Geddes.

Twenty years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the discriminatory Amendment 2, which had once earned our state a national reputation as a "hate state," Colorado now has full marriage equality and all loving couples can now legally get married.

Margaret Kachadoorian, the mother, leaped from the blue Mercedes and shouted in the English she had once known well enough to earn herself a university degree.

They will probably earn him a second look from voters who had once dismissed him.

Williams completed his hat-trick on the hour after Smith had demonstrated the dribbling skills that once earned him a trial at Everton and the scrum-half took his goal tally to six from seven attempts to extend the score to 40-4.

A pronouncement like "Those to whom evil is done/Do evil in return" might once have earned a passing nod; now it is put under pressure: Is it true?

Rasiwas says he plans to try and get work in the U.S. for a few years once he has earned his Ph.D. "Once a person gets this top-notch education," he says, "there may not be that standard in India for such a highly educated person but it is getting better, and I plan on going back".