How to Use fund in a Sentence

fund

1 of 2 noun
  • The fund was established to aid the poor.
  • The comedian had a large fund of jokes.
  • All her funds were in a checking account.
  • His funds were getting lower as he continued to look for a job.
  • States must match some of these funds.
    Beth Kania-Gosche, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2026
  • One idea is to drain our rainy day fund.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The fund has gained 4% in a year.
    Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
  • For many schools, there may not even be enough funds to stay open.
    Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The district still lost the funds.
    Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The fund is up about 29% over the past year.
    Blair Bao, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2026
  • These funds are not de-risking.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 May 2026
  • Now, those funds are running out.
    Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 22 Oct. 2025
  • As for the funds, there are a few options.
    Lauren Linder, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Big companies have the funds to waste on these projects.
    Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Or could crypto become the source of funds?
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 2 June 2026
  • Many of these funds have been for science research.
    Emma Green, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The funds are earmarked for road and bridge repairs.
    Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Here are the yields on some of the largest money market funds.
    Michelle Fox, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The funds cannot be used for recruiting.
    Cbs News Miami, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
  • But it’s been hard to garner funds and increase its reach.
    Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Some of these rounds fund actual costs.
    Renana Ashkenazi, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Building a stronger rainy day fund isn’t the cautious choice.
    Mike Gatto, Mercury News, 23 June 2026
  • Blue Owl chose to cap the requests at 5% for both funds.
    Michelle Fox, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2026
  • By the time the noise clears, the best funds will have been raised and committed.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • These funds track the price of gold and can be bought and sold like regular stocks.
    Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Those funds are then used to negotiate and pay off debts over time.
    Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Supporters say the funds are a matter of life and death.
    Ali Bauman, CBS News, 26 May 2026
  • For each shirt sold, Loewe pledged to make a donation to the fund.
    Olivia-Anne Cleary, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Once funds are sent, they usually cannot be reversed.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Some places are even spending public funds for these boxes.
    Alana Semuels, Time, 8 Oct. 2025

fund

2 of 2 verb
  • Who funds the company pension plan?
  • The group funded three new scholarships.
  • Now there are grants funding it.
    Adam Frank, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But pick at least one company and fund them.
    Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The agencies will be funded through the next three years.
    Darlene Superville, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
  • The state will fully fund the program for the first two years.
    Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The challenge will be funding the bill.
    Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Rubens was self-funded and grew slowly.
    Alejandra Rojas, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Hochul said the state will fully fund the new program for the first two years.
    Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • But Hochul will fund child care without taxes.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • One problem is that the vouchers are not funded at the scale of the need.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Bootstrapping is more than a way to fund a business.
    Jon Stojan, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • There was no standing army, so Congress had to raise and fund one.
    Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Cash arrives on time and stays long enough to fund improvement.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • But creators often have to fund their own path into those rooms.
    Alejandra Rojas, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Most states also levy their own gas taxes to fund local road projects.
    Keith Laing, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Most states also tack on their own gas taxes to fund local road projects.
    Keith Laing, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Profits from the store are used to fund the initiatives.
    Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Billions of dollars are still needed to fund the project.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The restoration is funded by state and local grants.
    Hank Tester, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The call premium funds your downside hedge — for free.
    Michael Khouw, CNBC, 20 May 2026
  • What would happen if they were fully funded?
    Daniel Kohn, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
  • The plunge raised more than $4,000 to help fund that worthy cause.
    Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • That’s where the revenue lives — and where the next great story gets funded.
    Lin Cherry, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Title sponsors fund portions of large-scale events.
    Bella Monaco, Dallas Morning News, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The same money that used to fund one pile of inventory now funds two.
    Izzy Rosenzweig, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Still, many savers may have a ways to go before their accounts grow enough to fund a home down payment.
    Alex Veiga, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The idea behind this was to use land to fund education.
    CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • But his visit was not funded solely by Barcelona.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • Almost none have funded trials showing when and how to stop.
    Jonathan Slater, STAT, 13 May 2026

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