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
• The goal is for the district to get the seed money back and to reinvest it in future projects, McClain said.
  — Al Gaspeny, arkansasonline.com, 2 Sep. 2024
• 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
• There was no business plan, no seed money and no savings.
  — Stephanie Mark, Time, 28 June 2018
• 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
• Use your tax refund to act as 'seed money' for the account and then set up an auto-deposit of 2% to 4% from each paycheck.
  — Stewart Welch, AL.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• The loss of this seed money would have a devastating effect.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 21 Mar. 2017
• 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
• With $4 million in seed money, Wild Earth hopes to be the first pet food brand based on cellular agriculture.
  — Bloomberg.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The Getty Foundation provided $16m of seed money for the project.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• 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
• English, a tech entrepreneur perhaps best known as the cofounder of Kayak.com, has put up $1 million in seed money for the project.
  — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2018
• Still, the $12 million in seed money seems like a small drop in the flood of funding needed for vaccine development, STAT points out.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 27 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The fund started with $300 million in seed money, and the state designated a portion of surplus oil and gas revenues to sustain the trust fund each year.
  — Erica E. Phillips, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024