How to Use subsidize in a Sentence

subsidize

verb
  • The state subsidizes housing for low-income families.
  • She feels that private businesses should not be subsidized by taxpayers.
  • The company subsidizes health insurance for its employees.
  • Some of the revenue helps subsidize the cost of living in St. Paul.
    Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2022
  • At the time, the two studio projects teamed up to lobby for the bill, which would have subsidized both.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Wesson says the plan would be to charge a fee to use the kitchen, and those dollars would subsidize the market.
    Sujata Dand, Dallas News, 6 May 2021
  • The 22 percent service fee is, in a way, asking the customer to subsidize some of the costs, Flay says.
    Kturnqui, oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Borges was on one side of the fight to subsidize nuclear plants in House Bill 6.
    Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 18 May 2021
  • The top 16 or 20 football programs subsidize the rest of the Power Four schools.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The city continues to pursue grants and loans to help subsidize the project.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The bill requires nearly all electric customers in the state to subsidize the coal plants.
    Mark Gillispie and Julie Carr Smyth, Star Tribune, 19 July 2021
  • The city plans to subsidize the project built on land known as the Jacksonville Shipyards with more than $100 million in tax dollars.
    Mark Long, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Russia is now left to look for other means to help subsidize launch costs.
    NBC News, 14 May 2021
  • Milton Friedman had an idea 20 years ago: Tax the schools rather than subsidize them.
    Richard Vedder, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Of course, the United States doesn’t spend a dollar to subsidize Canada.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Curls said that as the city subsidizes projects in some places, other areas seem to be left behind.
    Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Amount the French government will subsidize the purchase of a new EV.
    Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 5 July 2023
  • The state of Ohio is crafting an incentive package to help subsidize the project.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021
  • The state is supposed to subsidize imports, but the crisis has strained that system, too.
    BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The solutions should be not to subsidize what has always been done.
    Steven Zeitchik, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • All of them are excused, most of them applauded, many of them subsidized.
    Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 6 May 2024
  • Could taxpayers, expected to subsidize the project to the tune of $1.35 billion, be on the hook for even more if the project goes belly-up?
    Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The price of utilities are up so much that Utahns are juggling side gigs to subsidize the increase in cost for basic needs.
    Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Mar. 2022
  • And the public is subsidizing much (over eight times) more of the transportation-fuel E-85 mix.
    Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
  • But they are required to use the money from their credit sales to subsidize electric cars.
    Allysia Finley, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • The state began to subsidize purchase of fuel cell cars.
    Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • To cope, James said she's taken out two private loans through payday lenders to subsidize her bills.
    Ryan Tarinelli, Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Grant money might help subsidize costs in the trial, but that isn’t a long-term solution.
    Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
  • By subsidizing office space and the use of medical equipment to attract a doctor, Havana is looking out for the needs of its residents, Wilkerson said.
    Daniel Chang, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The quarter saw a notable rise in 0% interest loans, a strategy in which merchants — and sometimes manufacturers — subsidize borrowing costs to drive sales.
    Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 6 Feb. 2025

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