How to Use slush fund in a Sentence

slush fund

noun
  • This is a as good a plan as the slush fund at the county are a bad plan.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 July 2022
  • No pay-to-play, no slush funds, full disclosure of cost and programs.
    — Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Obviously, this isn’t just like slush funds.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 18 May 2026
  • And so this is completely under their control, a slush fund.
    — CBS News, 24 May 2026
  • She was found guilty of using a sham charity as her personal slush fund.
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Your paycheck is not a slush fund for your employer to dip into to keep its books balanced.
    — Washington Post, 8 July 2021
  • Is there some kind of slush fund the company has where all the missing refund money goes?
    — Christopher Elliott The Travel Troubleshooter, Sun Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2024
  • That’s the State Department’s big arts-and-culture slush fund.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Aug. 2019
  • That would be a great way to spend that one-time money from opera instead of giving it to county council is a slush fund.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The men allegedly overpaid contracts using a slush fund to conceal the bribes.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • This is a city where TIFs have been used as slush funds for mayors and aldermen for decades.
    — Kristen McQueary, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The union also accused council members of creating a slush fund for their districts.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2020
  • As shocking as this slush fund is, it should best be understood as one more test for what the administration can get away with.
    — New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 28 May 2026
  • As shocking as this slush fund is, it should best be understood as one more test for what the administration can get away with.
    — The Orlando Sentinel, 23 May 2026
  • And now Blaine Griffin and Company wanna go the slush fund route.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2023
  • But Democrats view Medicare less as a solemn commitment to seniors than as a slush fund for new programs.
    — Chris Jacobs, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
  • This $20 billion was moved out of the Treasury into a slush fund where there was no oversight of the spending.
    — John Griggs, The Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Return the $6 billion surplus to taxpayers instead of treating it like a slush fund.
    — Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
  • Without proactive planning, the money turned into a slush fund—and, as expected, it got wasted.
    — Shane Enete, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Brands are no longer treating creators as a brand-awareness experiment funded out of the marketing slush fund.
    — Jason Davis, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Clawing back this Energy Department slush fund is a no-brainer.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
  • That is raising questions over whether the State Senate has kept a slush fund of sorts to handle these kinds of situations.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Bars held slush funds in case any of their HIV-positive regulars had trouble paying the rent.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2018
  • What are the latest slush fund projects that Cuyahoga County Council members have proposed?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 20 July 2022
  • Taiwan also poured money into a slush fund for Solomon Islands politicians, Moore said.
    — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 17 Sep. 2020
  • In fact, the foundations were little more than private slush funds, and the donations were bribes for favorable business treatment.
    — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The last thing our state and the planet can afford is for cap-and-trade funds to be turned into a slush fund for pet projects that do little or nothing to improve our environment.
    — Fabian Núñez, The Mercury News, 10 July 2019
  • The slush fund essentially allows the Pentagon to fund wars without having to admit to or lay out tradeoffs.
    — Noah Berlatsky, Slate Magazine, 24 Apr. 2017
  • After the downfall of Mr Yanukovych, a book that contained records of payments made from a slush fund was passed to the security services.
    — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Unfortunately, politicians can take advantage of the resulting slush funds for projects that have nothing to do with fighting blight.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025

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