How to Use slush fund in a Sentence

slush fund

noun

• This is a as good a plan as the slush fund at the county are a bad plan.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 July 2022
• Who among us doesn’t have a $6.5-billion slush fund to play with?
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 7 May 2018
• But some lawmakers want to use the money as a slush fund.
  — Joel Zinberg, wsj.com, 7 May 2023
• That’s the State Department’s big arts-and-culture slush fund.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Aug. 2019
• No pay-to-play, no slush funds, full disclosure of cost and programs.
  — Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram, 16 Feb. 2018
• This is a city where TIFs have been used as slush funds for mayors and aldermen for decades.
  — Kristen McQueary, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• And now Blaine Griffin and Company wanna go the slush fund route.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2023
• At the center is President Trump himself, who treats the treasury like a slush fund.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 4 Oct. 2017
• Rajoy had testified that there were no such slush funds.
  — Washington Post, 2 June 2018
• That would be a great way to spend that one-time money from opera instead of giving it to county council is a slush fund.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2022
• Your paycheck is not a slush fund for your employer to dip into to keep its books balanced.
  — Washington Post, 8 July 2021
• But Democrats view Medicare less as a solemn commitment to seniors than as a slush fund for new programs.
  — Chris Jacobs, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
• That corporate slush fund called the Export-Import bank?
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 27 June 2019
• After the downfall of Mr Yanukovych, a book that contained records of payments made from a slush fund was passed to the security services.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2019
• That is raising questions over whether the State Senate has kept a slush fund of sorts to handle these kinds of situations.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Jan. 2018
• She was found guilty of using a sham charity as her personal slush fund.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• Bars held slush funds in case any of their HIV-positive regulars had trouble paying the rent.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2018
• The New York Post ran a tendentious story about how the Nixons were living lavishly from a slush fund sustained by wealthy donors.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2020
• Return the $6 billion surplus to taxpayers instead of treating it like a slush fund.
  — Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
• What are the latest slush fund projects that Cuyahoga County Council members have proposed?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 20 July 2022
• The union also accused council members of creating a slush fund for their districts.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2020
• The last thing our state and the planet can afford is for cap-and-trade funds to be turned into a slush fund for pet projects that do little or nothing to improve our environment.
  — Fabian Núñez, The Mercury News, 10 July 2019
• Taiwan also poured money into a slush fund for Solomon Islands politicians, Moore said.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 17 Sep. 2020
• Indira Gandhi refused, and the country had to resort to a deal with the shah’s Iran that involved paying huge sums into a slush fund for a senior member of the shah’s household.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 5 July 2017
• The slush fund essentially allows the Pentagon to fund wars without having to admit to or lay out tradeoffs.
  — Noah Berlatsky, Slate Magazine, 24 Apr. 2017
• Is the plan by Cuyahoga County Council to create $66 million in slush funds legal in the charter, and what do the people running to be the new county executive think of the slush fund plan?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 29 Apr. 2022
• In fact, the foundations were little more than private slush funds, and the donations were bribes for favorable business treatment.
  — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
• Clawing back this Energy Department slush fund is a no-brainer.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
• Even though Truman didn’t have to formally document the account’s usage, it wasn’t designed as a personal slush fund.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• The Globe and Mail later reported that the settlement payment had come from a slush fund bolstered in part by children’s hockey registration fees.
  — Ian Austen, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024