How to Use food stamp in a Sentence

food stamp

noun
  • The store was at its busiest the first of each month, when food stamps are issued.
    — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Our last month of being on food stamps was just seven years ago.
    — Stephanie Land, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • She was laid off in early June and had to turn to food stamps.
    — Solcyré Burga, Time, 10 Nov. 2025
  • That’s the model that programs such as food stamps are based on.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 10 Feb. 2020
  • This month, the food stamps never arrived.
    — Michael Collins, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Those who don't are are limited to three months of food stamps over three years.
    — Sophia Tareen, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The first is a program commonly known as food stamps.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Her father grew up in a broken home that survived on food stamps.
    — Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 13 Nov. 2025
  • My mom didn’t come here to collect money or to collect food stamps.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 20 June 2018
  • In plain English, kids on food stamps might be sent veggies.
    — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
  • States now have increased incentive to root out food stamp fraud.
    — Editorial, Boston Herald, 7 Feb. 2026
  • But its efforts around food stamps could complicate that.
    — Michelle L. Price, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2025
  • That would also restore food stamp payments.
    — Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Senate passes its version of farm bill, setting up clash over food stamps.
    — Fox News, 29 June 2018
  • Childs filled their pockets with food stamps and sent them undercover.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • His mother was disabled, and at times got only $32 a month in food stamps.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
  • Tyree asked me to thank the taxpayers for the welfare and food stamps that feed her family.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Growing again Part of the drop in use of food stamps was due to a booming economy.
    — Tracy Roof, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Congress has now adjourned for the week and is too late to prevent a lapse in food stamp benefits.
    — Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
  • And food stamp cuts in Arizona offer a warning to the nation.
    — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 11 May 2026
  • There were stories of athletes living in their cars and subsisting on food stamps.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
  • Fremonts ranks low on lists of cities with families who live in poverty and receive food stamps.
    — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 30 May 2024
  • Without any promising career leads, she was forced to move in with her sister and rely on food stamps.
    — Krystle Vermes, Futurism, 13 May 2026
  • Tipped workers in the city are twice as likely to live in poverty and use food stamps as the rest of the city’s workforce.
    — Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018
  • In the early years of the program, low-income people purchased food stamps.
    — Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Ten of the spots are set aside for low-income families, who get twice the value for food stamp dollars.
    — Markian Hawryluk, CNN, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Meanwhile, our farmer friends should not complain about those on welfare or food stamps; the tariffs put them in the same boat.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 17 June 2019
  • This is the party that invented work requirements for food stamps.
    — Kathryn Anne Edwards, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2024
  • This is nothing compared to raising four kids on food stamps, working three jobs, moving from home to home.
    — Jon MacHota, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Poverty there inspired the launch of the modern food stamp program more than 60 years ago.
    — Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026

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