How to Use foot the bill in a Sentence

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  • Plus, the city has to foot the bill for as long as a year, Gerace said.
    Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Freeman, who died in 2009, is no longer around to foot the bill.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2022
  • France and Germany can’t agree on who would foot the bill.
    Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, clients will foot the bill in the chase for steady returns.
    Pete Norman, Bloomberg.com, 4 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, clients will foot the bill in the chase for steady returns.
    Pete Norman, Bloomberg.com, 4 June 2023
  • Buyers, then, would be the ones footing the bill for their agent.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • But in the case of Oregon — the Bo Nix billboards — donors are footing the bill.
    Ndaschel, oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2023
  • So here’s something the will foot the bill: the humble fish sandwich.
    Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Worse, an unwelcome guest and the guest who is footing the bill.
    Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The government needs to start helping foot the bill, Moran said.
    Megan Banta, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The British public is footing the bill for the coronation.
    Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 6 May 2023
  • And no way should Texas consumers have to foot the bill for this debacle.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • If only his partner in crime were willing to foot the bill.
    Edith Olmsted, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Once that is done, then the feds can manage the asylum seekers, foot the bill and assist our cities.
    WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The change still needs sign-off from the federal government, which helps foot the bill.
    Allie Morris, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
  • Three years is a really long time to go away and for taxpayers to foot the bill.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The building may agree that an upgrade is necessary and foot the bill.
    Kalina Newman, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
  • In the meantime, gas-guzzling SUVs and pickups foot the bill.
    Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The Times points out that Peter's brother is the one who footed the bill to fly the whole gang to Paris, with the adults all sitting in first class.
    Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
  • If Thomas had, in fact, taken those flights and Crow footed the bill, the justice failed to disclose that, too.
    Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The question of who will take care of older Americans, and who will foot the bill, keep many awake at night.
    Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Property owners would foot the bill for the funds for their local schools.
    Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the European Union and the Gulf states were always ready to foot the bill to reconstruct the ruins in the strip.
    Jean-Pierre Filiu, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Taxpayers are left to foot the bill for tens of millions a year in extra jail housing costs.
    Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The state covers the cost of the training course through a grant, but districts foot the bill for employees’ travel to sessions.
    Emily Donaldson, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2022
  • If a doctor orders the kind of coronavirus test that’s processed by a lab, Medicare will foot the bill.
    Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
  • But power customers are the ones who will end up footing the bill, analysts say.
    Nancy Rivera Brooks, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • Other large companies would also be better equipped to foot the bill to use AI chips.
    Rob Toews, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • City government is now chipping in to foot the bill after saying it wouldn’t.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023
  • City government is now chipping in to foot the bill after saying it wouldn’t.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023

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