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
• 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
• That seed money included auctioning off a complete run of Mickey Mantle cards.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2024
• The lack of representation begins with lack of capital, as Black and Latino people hoping to break into real estate development often can’t even access the seed money to get started.
  — Colette Coleman, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024