How to Use food stamp in a Sentence

food stamp

noun

• That’s the model that programs such as food stamps are based on.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 10 Feb. 2020
• The other 25 stores did not report any food stamp sales.
  — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 14 June 2018
• Those who don't are are limited to three months of food stamps over three years.
  — Sophia Tareen, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2020
• Our last month of being on food stamps was just seven years ago.
  — Stephanie Land, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• Tipped workers in the city are twice as likely to live in poverty and use food stamps as the rest of the city’s workforce.
  — Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018
• Growing again Part of the drop in use of food stamps was due to a booming economy.
  — Tracy Roof, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2020
• Total enrollment in the food stamp program grew over the course of the pandemic.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2023
• My mom didn’t come here to collect money or to collect food stamps.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 20 June 2018
• An expansion of the food stamps program ended this year.
  — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 4 July 2023
• Meanwhile, our farmer friends should not complain about those on welfare or food stamps; the tariffs put them in the same boat.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 17 June 2019
• In the Bronx, Diana Ramos was struggling to find her next meal after the city took weeks to approve her request for food stamps.
  — Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Ten of the spots are set aside for low-income families, who get twice the value for food stamp dollars.
  — Markian Hawryluk, CNN, 3 Aug. 2019
• My family relied on food stamps (EBT) when my dad died at 48.
  — Fox News, 7 Dec. 2019
• For starters, the nation’s food stamp program would allow for more fruits, vegetables and whole grains.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• In other words, the vast majority of the people on food stamps aren’t working.
  — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 5 July 2018
• That means households of three making $3,600 a month or less are now able to receive food stamp benefits.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
• The bill would change how much of a person’s budget can factor into the daily food stamps allowance.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 May 2018
• The vote was a blow to GOP leaders, who had hoped to tout its new work requirements for recipients of food stamps.
  — Andrew Taylor, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
• Fremonts ranks low on lists of cities with families who live in poverty and receive food stamps.
  — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 30 May 2024
• There were stories of athletes living in their cars and subsisting on food stamps.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
• This is the party that invented work requirements for food stamps.
  — Kathryn Anne Edwards, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2024
• That’s the philosophy that makes some Americans bristle at the idea of Medicare for all, or cheer on cuts to food stamps.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 16 Dec. 2019
• For a time, the three lived with their 24-year-old cousin in a one-bedroom apartment in Ellicott City, who worked three jobs and applied for food stamps to make ends meet.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 10 May 2018
• Senate passes its version of farm bill, setting up clash over food stamps.
  — Fox News, 29 June 2018
• And the second is one more piece of legislation such as a job requirement for food stamps, that's the kind of thing that makes a difference.
  — Fox News, 6 June 2018
• The car’s male passenger, 38, of Cleveland, was found to be wanted on a felony warrant for food stamp trafficking.
  — cleveland, 27 May 2021
• Childs filled their pockets with food stamps and sent them undercover.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• In March 2024, six people were arrested in the Lone Star State in connection tens of thousands of dollars of food stamp fraud.
  — Aron Solomon, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• Authorities at the time said Lynch was killed by three female friends who wanted access to her boyfriend’s food stamps.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 15 Sep. 2019
• What’s more, some counties that have seen large upticks in food stamp usage in recent years continue to vote for him, despite his attempts to shrink that program and others that people in these places rely on.
  — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024