How to Use budget surplus in a Sentence

budget surplus

noun
  • Last year, Texas’s budget surplus was higher than the entire outlays of many states.
    — Scott Feuless, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Last year, Texas’s budget surplus was higher than the entire outlays of many states.
    — Scott Feuless, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • But Abbott wants Texas to use a budget surplus to buy down school district taxes.
    — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 6 June 2023
  • Over the next five years, Sacramento secured a rainy day fund and achieved a budget surplus for the first time in seven years.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The resulting budget surplus would offset the deficits incurred at the other end of the cycle.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The average rebate amount varied from year to year, in proportion to the size of the state’s budget surplus.
    — Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • California didn’t have a budget surplus at all but, rather, a $25 billion deficit.
    — The Editors, National Review, 10 May 2023
  • But this year the April budget surplus fell by $135 billion from a year earlier.
    — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 8 May 2023
  • Virginia Democrats would be unwise to jack up income taxes despite a budget surplus.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The money would come from the current year’s budget surplus and carrying it forward into the next fiscal year.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2024
  • Texas' record-high $33 billion budget surplus gives the state a range of options on what issues to invest the money in.
    — Kennedy Sessions, Chron, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Notably, the universe is operating with a dust budget surplus.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The state is sitting on a massive budget surplus, yet lawmakers refuse to allocate enough funding.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Painful consequences Argentina’s first budget surplus in 12 years has come at a steep cost.
    — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Dec. 2024
  • This year’s tax-free holiday follows a soaring state budget surplus and the introduction of a bill to reduce sales tax.
    — Megan Farrer, Dallas News, 25 July 2023
  • If this difference persists, a small primary budget surplus will be needed to stop the debt getting any higher.
    — Clive Crook, Twin Cities, 29 May 2025
  • As a result, what was believed to be a budget surplus was transformed into a $177 million budget deficit.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Georgia’s budget surplus becomes a defining contrast in the governor’s race.
    — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The state's budget surplus will be tapped to fund most of the other building projects, which Evers also signed into law Wednesday.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The government in Dublin has a big budget surplus, thanks to a boom in tax revenue from multinational companies.
    — Ed O’Loughlin, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Winkler anticipates the council will pass the budget surplus allocations before the end of the year.
    — Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 18 Nov. 2024
  • The lack of funding took place as Texas had a more than $32 billion budget surplus to work with during this year's legislative session.
    — CBS News, 19 July 2023
  • That was when California had a modest budget surplus that would grow to nearly $100 billion over the next two years.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2023
  • Democrats gained control of both legislative chambers, clearing the way for a more liberal course in state government, aided by a huge budget surplus.
    — Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Newport Beach has a solid pension pay-down plan in place and has been operating with a budget surplus, which positions us well for the future.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Any tax cuts floated next year would lean on the state's surplus — Wisconsin has $4 billion budget surplus and a $2 billion rainy-day fund.
    — Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Typically, some or all of a country's budget surplus is passed to the SWF, which can then be used for new investments.
    — David French, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Lyerly said the plaintiffs will continue the lawsuit regardless of whether the budget surplus is distributed to schools.
    — Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • DeSantis said his line-item vetoes will boost the state’s budget surplus to $17 billion, money the state will need if there’s a killer storm this season.
    — Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 16 June 2024
  • The last budget surplus for the federal government occurred in 2001.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 22 Feb. 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'budget surplus.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: