How to Use seed money in a Sentence

seed money

noun
  • He provided seed money for the campaign.
  • The funding serves as seed money to get projects off of the ground.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 13 Dec. 2025
  • But if that’s your thing—ask one of them for a little seed money and start a new dating site.
    — Gabriela Lopez Gomes, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • What is Denise receiving seed money for?
    — Thomas Page, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Even the guys know their company could very well be dead within the next six months, once its seed money runs out.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2011
  • Once that seed money was secured, the next order of business was to find a suitable site.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Some cities have also launched programs that offer seed money to kids in kindergarten to be used for college.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • The government here can up with a very special program to - to put in the seed money to rehab the whole block.
    — CBS News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Private bankers wealth managers and people looking for seed money will all come knocking.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • For Fuqua, the grant’s impact goes deeper than just providing seed money.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The state rebuffed the lawyers’ efforts to use the fees as seed money for a new technology system.
    — Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The first contributions for many children will likely be seed money.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Fees collected for the rides this year will be used as seed money to bring the program back in 2022.
    — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2021
  • The sale of the church’s former building provided seed money for The Grand.
    — Joe Tash, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2021
  • The commission is now considering whether to commit the seed money to get the first phase of that project started.
    — Byron Tate, Arkansas Online, 2 May 2021
  • The goal is for the district to get the seed money back and to reinvest it in future projects, McClain said.
    — Al Gaspeny, arkansasonline.com, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Donzello raised the seed money for the foundation through a tasting event just before the pandemic closed the state down.
    — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 10 Sep. 2022
  • With seed money and the ability to start at a younger age, funds have more time to grow, leveraging the power of compounding.
    — Jessica Dickler,greg Iacurci, CNBC, 5 June 2026
  • City Education Partners kicked in seed money for the group’s launch.
    — Noah Alcala Bach, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • These accounts work as a type of seed money, encouraging children and families to save.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Use your tax refund to act as 'seed money' for the account and then set up an auto-deposit of 2% to 4% from each paycheck.
    — Stewart Welch, AL.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • All children born in the city will be given an account at Bremer Bank with $50 seed money.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 27 Dec. 2019
  • That just takes seed money and a quick perusing of Wikipedia or YouTube to figure out how slave owners made their nut.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Of those, more than 1 million are set to receive the Treasury seed money, according to the agency.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The seed money came from the settlement of a state lawsuit against Exxon Mobil over its pollution of the creek.
    — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Medici Ventures in 2018 funded most of the seed money for Voatz.
    — Paulina Pineda, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Will this $34 million be enough seed money for the National Garden?
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025
  • With $4 million in seed money, Wild Earth hopes to be the first pet food brand based on cellular agriculture.
    — Bloomberg.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • That seed money is financing an ambitious expansion plan that calls for hundreds of piano schools across the country.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 24 May 2026
  • Flock said the bulk of the seed money will go into engineering and growing Perceptic’s customer base.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 26 May 2026

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