Example sentences for: bankrolled

How can you use “bankrolled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Prime Mover of Wealth was no longer a great industrialist who rode herd on thousands of corporate slaves, or the great politician who rode herd on the nation's finances, or the great Wall Street tycoon who bankrolled a new enterprise.

  • This exhibit, bankrolled by Steven Spielberg and Sharon Stone, is judged to be of greater historical than artistic merit.

  • The newspaper was bankrolled by Mafia loans in the '50s, and gangsters leaned on newsstand dealers who refused to sell it.

  • Nevada casinos fearing encroachment on Las Vegas' turf bankrolled an opposition campaign.

  • Salon , he says, is bankrolled by companies run by Clinton donors--Apple (Steve Jobs), Adobe (John Warnock), and Hambrecht & Quist (William Hambrecht, now retired).


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