How to Use war chest in a Sentence

war chest

noun
  • The candidate held fund-raising dinners to build up his war chest.
  • The moats are being drained to fill the war chests.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 May 2026
  • No nine-figure venture war chests.
    — Mark Minevich, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Big pharma has brought its war chest to protect the status quo.
    — WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Davis is also sitting on a campaign war chest that could be hard to beat.
    — Melissa Holzberg Depalo, CNN, 21 Feb. 2022
  • On top of that, teams want to keep a war chest to take on more salary with in-season callups and trades.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2019
  • None has come close to matching Uthmeier’s war chest.
    — Dan Sullivan, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
  • So not too far apart there, but, uh, Yost has more than a million in his war chest.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Fairshake has amassed a large war chest to spend in 2026 races.
    — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Still, Hawley's war chest is more than twice the size of Kunce's.
    — Samantha Liss, CBS News, 9 May 2024
  • Still, Hawley’s war chest is more than twice the size of Kunce’s.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 21 May 2024
  • But with its fresh war chest, Dragonfly is ready to shape the next blockchain era.
    — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The war chest of draft picks and swaps the team possesses was part of his rationale.
    — Christian Clark | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Wenstrup already had a war chest of more than $1 million as of April.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 13 July 2020
  • And he's headed into the summer with a war chest of just over $4 million.
    — Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The group had close to $47 million in its war chest at the end of 2025.
    — Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The slowdown of oil sales also put a major dent in the Kremlin’s war chest.
    — Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Fuller had the second-largest war chest, with about $238,000 in the bank.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • But the unsecured creditors have something of a war chest to work with.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 8 May 2026
  • Coolidge put around $91,000 into his campaign war chest.
    — Sacbee.com, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Coolidge put around $91,000 into his campaign war chest.
    — Sacbee.com, 6 Apr. 2026
  • At around $100 a barrel, these sales beef up Putin’s war chest faster than before.
    — Mikhail Alexseev, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Doing so increases the size of the financial war chest one can deploy in old age.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 24 May 2026
  • As things stand, Roby has a sizable war chest and boasts a 5-to-1 fundraising lead.
    — Li Zhou, Vox, 17 July 2018
  • The governor has $30 million in his campaign war chest, and a sizable lead in the polls.
    — Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • With a sizeable war chest, Lombardo should sail through the primary.
    — The Npr Network, NPR, 9 June 2026
  • There had been thought of the Heat trading out of the first round, or even down, in order to replenish the team’s draft war chest.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2025
  • In their draft-day war chest are three first-round selections, two in the second round and a total of six among the first 70.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 8 Mar. 2020
  • Vlasto and his colleagues will no doubt try to use their massive war chest and political savvy to counter their efforts.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 Aug. 2025
  • And so, Iger and Disney took back those rights, and sought to create a new war chest of IP.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2022

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