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noun

funds

assets in the form of money

In a sentence

Six example sentences with funds, each labelled with its topic.

  • The city council froze all funds for the stadium until an audit explained where last year's forty million went.

    Politics

  • She ran out of funds in Lisbon and spent the last week sleeping in hostels and eating from markets.

    Travel

  • The lab has instruments and staff but no funds left, so the deep-sea cruise slipped to the following year.

    Science

  • The founders had enough funds for four more months of payroll, and every meeting that spring was about that number.

    Startups

  • The gallery raised funds through a raffle of small prints, enough to repair the roof before the winter rains.

    Art

  • The director ran out of funds halfway through the shoot and finished the last scenes with borrowed cameras and unpaid friends.

    Movies

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