How to Use cut a check in a Sentence
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Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, cut a check for $250.
— cleveland, 16 Apr. 2021 -
The tenant cut a check to Smith on Jan. 30 for her deposit and first month’s rent.
— John Simerman, NOLA.com, 19 Sep. 2020 -
The next day the public office run by Greenberg cut a check for that amount to Greenberg’s private company.
— Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2020 -
But Murdaugh allegedly cut a check in 2012 made payable to Palmetto State Bank, and the man’s family never saw any of the funds.
— Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2022 -
Two months later, Blazel cut a check for Gableman’s expenses.
— Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2022 -
The tax preparer wants a refund deposited into one of her accounts and then plans to cut a check and send the taxpayers their refund.
— Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2021 -
Regardless, Thiel easily could have written a $15 million check for pro-Masters ads, and Trump could have lent him his email list or cut a check.
— The Editors, National Review, 14 Nov. 2022 -
Randolph said taxing authorities who levied taxes on the theme parks won’t have to cut a check out of their budgets to repay Disney.
— Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 23 July 2021 -
The city has yet to cut a check from the $4.1 million set aside for nonprofits focused on gun violence prevention and healing, and only plans to dole out about 5% of that money by July 1.
— oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2021 -
Bethune, like many north Minneapolis schools, lacks a formal Parent Teacher Association that could cut a check for such items.
— Mara Klecker, Star Tribune, 28 June 2021 -
Select Medical cut a check of about $5 million — a rounding error for a conglomerate that generates more than $6 billion of revenue every year.
— Bob Herman and Casey Ross, STAT, 13 Mar. 2023
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