How to Use bailout in a Sentence

bailout

1 of 2 noun
  • And there have already been many bailouts.
    — Louis Sigaud, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026
  • An easy bailout doesn’t seem to be coming.
    — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Lufthansa bailout, agreed in the last few days, comes with no green strings attached.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 4 June 2020
  • The plan was not the full bailout that taxi drivers had wanted.
    — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Get ready for one of the world’s largest taxpayer bailouts.
    — Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 20 May 2026
  • If workers got a raw deal out of the bailout, then so did the planet.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Each bailout was intended to help.
    — David H. Rosmarin, Time, 10 June 2026
  • One, bailouts are a temporary patch.
    — Patricia Lopez, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • That brings us back to the Argentina bailout.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
  • There were no such bailouts in Friday’s affair.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 25 Oct. 2025
  • But wasn’t Trump’s election already a kind of bailout?
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
  • To report fraud and abuse of government bailout funds, that is.
    — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 10 July 2020
  • Did the pandemic bailout help low-wage workers, or hurt them?
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
  • So far, there hasn’t been much movement on a federal bailout.
    — Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 1 Dec. 2023
  • With her body piked – bent at the waist, her hands gripping her straight legs – there is no bailout from the vault.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 24 May 2021
  • Bucky orders Brady to salvo the ship’s full bomb load and hit the bailout alarm.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Bay Area transit will get a bailout, Newsom says.
    — Kate Talerico, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Cares Act bailout fund as its theaters remain shut through June.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2020
  • But the bailout merely delayed the inevitable.
    — Muhib Rahman, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Portman said the bill is not a bailout, and no new funding is going to the agency.
    — CBS News, 9 Mar. 2022
  • As Shawn Tully argues, a bailout could just make things worse.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Plus Ultra received the bailout.
    — ABC News, 19 May 2026
  • But as the weeks wore on, a bailout and unfreezing appeared less likely.
    — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
  • Binance agreed to buy FTX in a bailout, then backed out of the deal.
    — Marley Jay, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • But talks with bondholders for a government bailout this week failed to yield a deal.
    — Leslie Josephs,azhar Sukri, CNBC, 1 May 2026
  • The Netherlands has since recouped large parts of the bailout money.
    — Sarah Jacob, Bloomberg, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Fox draws a distinction between past airline bailouts and this one.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Whether that bailout is enough to stabilize the ship for the long haul is another matter.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The halt came after a last-minute deal for a federal taxpayer bailout failed.
    — Miami Herald, 2 May 2026
  • This past week Trump sneered at a reporter who asked about the Argentina bailout.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2025

bail out

2 of 2 verb
  • It was raised the same night and he was bailed out.
    — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Some of them bailed out of their cars before the train hit.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Both brothers remain jailed and cannot be bailed out.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Wall Street got bailed out, but consumers didn’t get bailed out.
    — Julia Shapero, The Hill, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Perhaps the big man will bail out Wall Street.
    — Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 13 Dec. 2025
  • While over the target, the bomber took flak damage, and the crew bailed out.
    — Robert M. Edsel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 May 2025
  • Will Bad Bunny bail out this sad (so far) show?
    — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2026
  • He got bailed out by a blocking foul at midcourt and sank one free throw to win it.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 July 2024
  • In the second half, the Rapids were bailed out of two penalties.
    — Braidon Nourse, The Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Both suspects then bailed out of the vehicle and ran.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Both men were bailed out of jail, Fitzpatrick's office said.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • That’s what happened in 2008 and that's why they were bailed out.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 20 May 2026
  • He cannot be bailed out of jail and isn’t due in court again until mid-June, records show.
    — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
  • Trammell lost the ball in the lane and was bailed out by a foul call that put him on the line for one-and-one.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Baker also tried to work out the math of how much the group had raised and who had been bailed out of jail.
    — Brianna Bailey, The Frontier, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Morgan bailed out on a $20,000 bond that same day.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 10 Feb. 2026
  • A lot of people who get bailed out by family don’t admit it.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Lugo was bailed out by a couple of stellar double plays.
    — ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • More monthly and energy bills to bail out their fat cat friends who fund their little.
    — cleveland, 11 Apr. 2022
  • That doesn’t mean Biden was wrong to bail out the depositors.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Both crews bailed out soon after, floating down to the jungle by parachute.
    — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The pressure was on but Gu's run did not go to plan, slipping off the first rail to bail out.
    — Isabel Yip, NBC news, 9 Feb. 2026
  • He was bailed out of jail sometime Monday, online jail records showed.
    — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Big institutions, banks and the investors got bailed out over main street.
    — Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Since then, the music mogul has attempted to bail out twice, which he was denied both times.
    — Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Banton bailed out of the vehicle, loading on the run; three toms ran down the cut ahead of us.
    — Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2025
  • There’s no way to bail out into more manageable terrain.
    — John Meyer, Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Michigan nearly made a big error on the first play of the game, but was bailed out by a few slivers of grass.
    — Jared Ramsey, Detroit Free Press, 1 Jan. 2024
  • But the squad inside bailed out and managed to safely escape back to cover.
    — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 29 June 2023
  • In some cases money has had to be raised to bail out those who were held for crimes like upside down license plates.
    — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026

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