How to Use sweetheart deal in a Sentence

sweetheart deal

noun
  • No sweetheart deals with Mozilla.
    — Tor Constantino, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • There are even sweetheart deals on lodging during this special time.
    — Mindy Sink, Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Not only does the price seem glaringly low, but the process suggests a sweetheart deal.
    — Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Get a sweetheart deal to buy a stake in a startup that has a good chance of one day exploding in value.
    — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 24 June 2021
  • The Chiefs since bolted for a sweetheart deal in Kansas.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026
  • What makes this even more of a sweetheart deal for Musk is the fact that X’s finances last year were mixed.
    — John Hyatt, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Owners had pushed back against Brady receiving a sweetheart deal from Davis.
    — Vincent Frank, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • As part of her sweetheart deal, Joseph had to agree to a state investigation — wink wink nudge nudge.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Passengers’ relatives call it a sweetheart deal that fails to consider the lives lost.
    — David Koenig, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2024
  • House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has called it a sweetheart deal.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • Relatives of victims and their lawyers have called the settlement a sweetheart deal that fails to consider the loss of so many lives.
    — Claire Rush, Chicago Tribune, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Still, the 49ers brought back a player who is a favorite of coaches, players and fans on what might end up looking like a sweetheart deal.
    — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Are private companies getting sweetheart deals on Arizona trust land?
    — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2024
  • That’s another open question, as is the issue of whether the potential buyers are getting a sweetheart deal.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • For several years, Mitchell reaped the benefits of this sweetheart deal with himself unimpeded.
    — Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Public uproar eventually killed that proposal, but not Moreno’s lust for a sweetheart deal.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Those shows were produced by the same company that broadcast them, prompting their creators to fret about sweetheart deals that failed to deliver fair-market value.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • Casar’s story touched on a subject close to Sanders’s heart, and not only because the senator dislikes it when billionaires get sweetheart deals.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Biden potentially could have stayed out of jail under the agreement, which congressional Republicans slammed as a sweetheart deal.
    — Xerxes Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
  • Also included was Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who denounced the plea agreement as a sweetheart deal.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • Instead, Abbott gives them sweetheart deals and subsidies while everyday Texans foot the bill through higher energy costs.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • That means holding corporations accountable, avoiding sweetheart deals, and making sure revenues are maximized for schools and classrooms.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • In 2013, an initial inquiry was launched into whether Apple had engaged in sweetheart deals with Ireland to lower its tax bills.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • But Republicans blasted the agreement as a sweetheart deal and Hunter Biden became a lightning rod for criticism of his father.
    — Xerxes Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
  • And on top of that, (the Ellisons) are doing a sweetheart deal, by all accounts, to take over TikTok, alongside Marc Andreessen.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The president's son had a plea agreement with the Justice Department related to tax and gun charges that many on the Right lambasted as a sweetheart deal.
    — Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Beers are still $3, thanks to a sweetheart deal from real estate tycoon Douglas Durst, the owner of the building and a Jimmy’s regular.
    — Mark Ellwood, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Acknowledging this is cold-eyed realism; humiliating and undercutting an ally, perhaps with worse to come in the form of a sweetheart deal for Moscow, is not.
    — The Editors, National Review, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Hunter’s lawyers have accused Weiss of caving to political pressure from Republicans who cast the initial plea agreement as a sweetheart deal for the president’s son.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 12 June 2024
  • He was originally expected to plead guilty under an agreement made with federal prosecutors which Republicans claimed was a sweetheart deal.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023

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