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
  • 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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