How to Use seed money in a Sentence

seed money

noun

• He provided seed money for the campaign.
• The company was born 17 ago with the help of CIA seed money.
  — Stan Choe and Damian J. Troise, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2020
• The thing is, the financier’s seed money was running out.
  — Fiona Maazel, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• Fees collected for the rides this year will be used as seed money to bring the program back in 2022.
  — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2021
• But if that’s your thing—ask one of them for a little seed money and start a new dating site.
  — Gabriela Lopez Gomes, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• The sale of the church’s former building provided seed money for The Grand.
  — Joe Tash, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2021
• The government here can up with a very special program to - to put in the seed money to rehab the whole block.
  — CBS News, 11 Dec. 2022
• Medici Ventures in 2018 funded most of the seed money for Voatz.
  — Paulina Pineda, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2021
• Once that seed money was secured, the next order of business was to find a suitable site.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• Moon gave each person some seed money: a single $100 bill.
  — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• This is a FUNdraiser to generate seed money for our work.
  — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• The seed money came from the settlement of a state lawsuit against Exxon Mobil over its pollution of the creek.
  — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2019
• The state rebuffed the lawyers’ efforts to use the fees as seed money for a new technology system.
  — Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2023
• The Department of Defense will provide seed money for the next stage of the project, but the effort will need more to see through to completion.
  — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• That just takes seed money and a quick perusing of Wikipedia or YouTube to figure out how slave owners made their nut.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2020
• All children born in the city will be given an account at Bremer Bank with $50 seed money.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 27 Dec. 2019
• The commission is now considering whether to commit the seed money to get the first phase of that project started.
  — Byron Tate, Arkansas Online, 2 May 2021
• Right now, the state is working on getting the money in the state budget, so whether the seed money is there beginning in 2023 remains to be seen.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2022
• Donzello raised the seed money for the foundation through a tasting event just before the pandemic closed the state down.
  — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 10 Sep. 2022
• The singer-songwriter, who will star in Sony’s upcoming Cinderella, donated the seed money for the project and has matched all the funds raised for it to date.
  — Rebecca Sun, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2021
• Restaurateurs could just as easily put their seed money into a few penny stocks and hope for the best.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• Seven churches pitched in to help launch the project, providing seed money until the schools are able to use the state's scholarship program.
  — Michael Lee, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2022
• With seed money from family, the three found a Lycra fabric blend and a South Carolina company to cut and sew the bras.
  — Julia Martin, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2020
• But the effort dragged and, late last year, Asian investors who had been willing to provide a chunk of the seed money dropped out, people familiar with the matter said.
  — Liz Hoffman, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2018
• Legion was founded in 2012 and received seed money from Calstrs, as the teachers’ fund is also known.
  — Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
• After two years, Mycorrhiza Biotech had burned through its seed money and had nothing to show.
  — Andrew Kornylak, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2021
• When the festival concludes and if a profit is made, organizers must earmark seed money that is used to start up the next year’s event, Lowth has said.
  — Karie Angell Luc, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2018
• The future was coming quick, and the DOT hoped its seed money would help a midsize city like Columbus work with companies to plan ahead, with equity in mind.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 28 June 2021
• His lab had to run on seed money that the university gives new faculty members to get started.
  — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2022
• The stimulus and unemployment aid gave them some seed money to start the company.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024