Example sentences for: underwrite

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

  • Violently opposed to the European Union, Goldsmith is spending $30 million to underwrite his anti-EU Referendum Party in the upcoming British election.

  • Although any number of Wall Street execs counseled MGM against going public this soon (Goldman, Sachs actually refused to underwrite the IPO because it thought the deal was too hasty), the studio wants to reap the benefits of the bull market; it also wants the cash as quickly as possible.

  • The Ford Foundation seeded the public-TV idea with $300 million worth of grants between 1951 and 1976 in the hope that the feds would completely underwrite it thereafter (just as cities routinely assume responsibility for museums and libraries once philanthropists found them).

  • The commission may recommend that gaming taxes be used to underwrite treatment of pathological gamblers and that insurance companies be encouraged to cover gambling addiction.

  • You have done less than any company approaching your size to underwrite the sleazy business of influence peddling.


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