How to Use subsidize in a Sentence

subsidize

verb
  • The state subsidizes housing for low-income families.
  • She feels that private businesses should not be subsidized by taxpayers.
  • The company subsidizes health insurance for its employees.
  • At some point, again, Ubers used to be subsidized.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • So the first project is to subsidize a borehole right by the school.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 11 June 2026
  • The rest is subsidized by tax dollars.
    — Joshua Ceballos, Miami Herald, 5 May 2026
  • Russia is now left to look for other means to help subsidize launch costs.
    — NBC News, 14 May 2021
  • Don’t come to me and ask me to help subsidize your profit margin.
    — Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
  • Some of those funds have been used to subsidize electric trucks and chargers.
    — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
  • For years, the little guys have been subsidizing the big guys and that’s not fair.
    — Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026
  • At the time, the two studio projects teamed up to lobby for the bill, which would have subsidized both.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The rate is $50 per child, per day, but the city subsidizes $25.
    — Sorell Grow, Indianapolis Star, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The city continues to pursue grants and loans to help subsidize the project.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The solutions should be not to subsidize what has always been done.
    — Steven Zeitchik, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Curls said that as the city subsidizes projects in some places, other areas seem to be left behind.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 11 Jan. 2025
  • But isn’t the point of insurance is that healthy people subsidize sick ones?
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • All of them are excused, most of them applauded, many of them subsidized.
    — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 6 May 2024
  • Even with the hike in gasoline prices, Iran still subsidizes fuel costs.
    — Fox News, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Wesson says the plan would be to charge a fee to use the kitchen, and those dollars would subsidize the market.
    — Sujata Dand, Dallas News, 6 May 2021
  • But they are required to use the money from their credit sales to subsidize electric cars.
    — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • Many homes use Medicare payments for post-acute short-term care to cross-subsidize their long-term beds.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2020
  • The bill requires nearly all electric customers in the state to subsidize the coal plants.
    — Mark Gillispie and Julie Carr Smyth, Star Tribune, 19 July 2021
  • So, will hotels raise rates and let single guests subsidize the room with multiple guests?
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Grant money might help subsidize costs in the trial, but that isn’t a long-term solution.
    — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Nadel, who is openly gay, muses on how the deaths of gay men subsidized his easy, happy childhood.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The state is supposed to subsidize imports, but the crisis has strained that system, too.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Chesky and Gebbia were looking for a way to subsidize their apartment.
    — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2020
  • In Bilt’s world, who is subsidizing all those perks that your members are getting?
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Almost every sports team is subsidized by the taxpayers and host city.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Seeking to subsidize already prime real estate is not one of them.
    — John Mannillo, Twin Cities, 29 Dec. 2025

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