How to Use slush fund in a Sentence

slush fund

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  • 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
  • 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
  • Republicans have been holding hearings and launching investigations aimed at framing the entire climate package as a slush fund for donors and friends of the White House.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023

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