How to Use budget in a Sentence

budget

1 of 3 noun
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  • We'll have to work out a budget so we can buy a new car.
  • The film has a million-dollar budget.
  • What's the average weekly budget for a family of five?
  • He's been trying to live on a budget of less than $1,500 a month.
  • The show’s budget ballooned, and its look became glossier.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • Being on a budget shouldn’t stop you from getting to travel the world.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Many districts, like Oak Creek, have held off on making salary plans while the state budget is in flux.
    — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2023
  • The whole purpose was to impact the budget of the police department.
    — Journal Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Figure out your budget and grab some cash at your bank or an airport ATM.
    — Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2024
  • California, which has the largest budget in the nation at $306 billion, is one of the few states to have a shortfall this year.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 12 May 2023
  • The best use of their budget is in buying offsets and helping get the supply side of carbon removal to scale.
    — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • But budgets in Israel aren’t quite as big as elsewhere.
    — Amber Dowling, Variety, 12 June 2023
  • The two budget airlines announced a cash-and-stock deal back in 2022, but JetBlue made an all-cash offer and won the bidding war.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The agency could go different ways to make sure the program's budget does not hit rock bottom.
    — The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
  • If the French design house’s bags are out of your budget, order this leather wallet that has the iconic LV monogram look.
    — redbookmag.com, 12 May 2023
  • Disney+ series are rarely granted the budgets of feature films.
    — TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The firm’s basic services will be compensated at a rate of 7.5% of the budget for the construction costs, the agreement says.
    — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 30 June 2023
  • This device provides brings a spa-like experience to the comfort of your home, on a budget of course.
    — Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The Ohio Senate budget includes $16 million for LaRose's office for the election.
    — Haley Bemiller, The Enquirer, 27 June 2023
  • The backlog of people in immigration court has grown by 1 million over the past budget year.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Given the city deficit, cutting the police budget may be one of the only ways for the council to create new shelter beds in future years.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 9 Feb. 2024
  • In some other year, the city council might have spent most of its time talking about potholes or police budgets.
    — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 4 June 2023
  • Even if the arena language is not in the final budget, the governor has the power to send down a new bill or call a special session.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The film was eventually picked up by Disney, but fell through due to budget concerns.
    — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
  • But the various parts don't add up to a compelling whole; the film flopped at the box office, grossing just $4.8 million against its $5 million budget.
    — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The team has not yet publicly released a budget or total dollar amount, and the lease deal did not put the team’s contribution in writing.
    — The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2024
  • If your budget is $30, choose an item that is $25 or lower to account for extra costs when purchasing.
    — L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The International Monetary Fund believes the price the Gulf state needs to balance its budget is close to $81.
    — Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 5 June 2023
  • Of course, Paramount didn’t reveal the budget either, although Chazelle presumably won’t get the same blank check to fund the upcoming movie.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The difference in annual budgets can be tens of millions.
    — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2023
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budget

2 of 3 verb
  • I need to learn how to budget my time more wisely.
  • If we budget carefully, we will be able to go on the trip.
  • They budgeted millions of dollars to make the film.
  • He budgets $50 for entertainment each month.
  • The project is budgeted at more than $100,000.
  • The pressures mean Henry can only budget from one week to the next.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
  • If so, investors will need to budget those costs into the fund launch.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Make sure to budget this in so you're not left with any surprises, as not all tape has the same price tag.
    — Olivia Lipski, Good Housekeeping, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Before turning back to head home, budget some time to pass through Freeport.
    — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Dias said that this deferred benefit would allow the state to budget for the cost.
    — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The council will have to budget for each project if voters approve the funding.
    — Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The movie is budgeted in the $22 million range, a whopping price by French standards.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 15 May 2023
  • In other words, do aim to budget in the new year — just find a way to do so that actually works for you.
    — Becca Stanek, theweek, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Expect the drive to take an hour, and make sure to budget time to explore Ouray, Silverton’s sister city.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Others may not hunt as much, or may not want to spend as much, or may not be able to budget that much money for a shotgun.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The $25 won't strain your budget as much, and an even amount is easier when budgeting.
    — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 19 July 2023
  • Don’t be like me—plan on adding this step to your project timeline and landscape budgeting so you’re not derailed.
    — Sunset Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The film is budgeted at $1.2 million of which $1.1 million has been secured.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
  • All supplies are secured now at a cost of about $5 million more than the $20 million budgeted last year.
    — Mark Kazlowski, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • Lawmakers so far are budgeting an extra $10 million across the state to help counties adapt to the changes.
    — Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Just make sure to budget enough to cover other home buying costs, like closing costs, and to still have some funds in reserve.
    — Becca Stanek, The Week, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Students who want to use free time to travel should budget for these expenses.
    — CBS News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Mint, the budgeting app owned by Intuit, is shutting down.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The funds will come from the pot of the county’s remaining federal pandemic aid that had been budgeted for child care.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • For nearly a year, the department has been budgeted for 9,460 officers, the amount approved by the City Council.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • As a result, the Legislature is likely to budget nearly $20 million this year just to keep the Tillikum running longer.
    — David Kroman, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Nationwide, the war has forced the Ukrainian government to budget tightly.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Our children become adults, who enter the workforce ill-equipped to budget, manage debt, invest and save.
    — Petros Koumantaros, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • With that in mind, Buy Side reassessed its list of the best budgeting apps and came up with some new additions, including a new top overall pick.
    — Kevin J. Ryan, wsj.com, 29 Dec. 2023
  • In the future, the coalition hopes to offer classes on life skills, such as how to budget and make decisions under pressure.
    — Aneri Pattani, CNN, 15 May 2023
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budget

3 of 3 adjective
  • Downey is taking his first steps out of mega-budget blockbusters in some time.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Legacy was a mega-budget bet on the abstract instead of the specific.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 3 June 2021
  • Those looking for the beauty of a mid-budget film in theaters, then, may simply be looking in the wrong place.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Catherine Called Birdy is the kind of small, mid-budget adolescent film that rarely gets made anymore.
    — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2022
  • When mid-budget adult dramas were sure-fire box office bets.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 28 June 2021
  • It’s the kind of mid-budget, original film that Hollywood doesn’t often make these days.
    — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Some of them are big studio tentpoles; some of them are micro-budget doodles; some of them seem to alienate on purpose.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 7 July 2021
  • There isn’t a ton of competition in the ultra-budget wireless earbuds segment, but there is some.
    — Christian De Looper, BGR, 19 May 2022
  • But to say that mid-budget movies don't exist anymore isn't completely true, film experts said.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 26 Feb. 2022
  • But Hollywood hasn’t figured out what to do with mid-budget comedies since superhero movies took over the box office.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 30 Sep. 2022
  • With the decline in mid-budget studio movies and the rise of megafranchises, there simply aren’t as many romantic releases.
    — Vulture, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Universal’s slate of films set for release during the final stretch of the year includes a host of small- to mid-budget films boasting recognizable stars.
    — R.t. Watson, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020
  • To open a mid-budget romantic comedy in theaters at this number, in this market?
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood churned out eight solid-to-great films—all mid-budget dramas, and all but two based on best-selling novels.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Senate Republicans are also at odds with the House over whether its appropriate to cut taxes in a non-budget year.
    — Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Still, Rat Race offers a reminder of a not-so-distant past when Goldberg regularly starred in movies and studios churned out mid-budget comedies built around set pieces.
    — Chris Stanton, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Hamada’s mandate will be to release several mid-budget horror films for theaters and streaming a year.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The competition in the ultra-budget true wireless headphones world is a little limited.
    — Maren Estrada, BGR, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Explosions, gunshots, car crashes, fireworks and snark populate the first trailer for Netflix’s mega-budget summer action thriller The Gray Man.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2022
  • With such a thin slate, the box office became increasingly reliant on the home runs, and there weren’t enough of what studio executives call singles, doubles and triples — the kinds of mid-budget films that sustained theaters year-round.
    — Ryan Faughnderstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • This super-budget pick is great for anyone who wants a small bookshelf with an unobtrusive, contemporary style.
    — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The Nolan film also positions Universal as a competitor to Disney which doesn’t just rely on brands and/or mega-budget franchises.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Many indie and mid-budget movies are bypassing the costly process of going into theaters, and are being sold off to streamers that pay a premium for exclusive new content.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2021
  • But mid-budget action is a tough sell theatrically, with the cost of P&A often restrictively expensive.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Once a thriving genre, the big-screen romantic comedy has all but disappeared in recent years, as studios have turned increasingly away from mid-budget movies in favor of surefire tent-pole hits.
    — New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Watcher, feels like an artifact of a different era, when smart mid-budget chillers were among the most anticipated coming attractions.
    — Tomris Laffly, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Feb. 2022
  • That’s a week after Universal and Blumhouse’s first of a three-part mega-budget Exorcist trilogy which is intended as a kind of theaters/Peacock dual proposition.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Dynamic windowing could actually be good for the production of those increasingly rare mid-budget movies, even if they’re not being seen in theaters.
    — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The kinds of movies that traditionally contend for awards — mid-budget dramas with recognizable stars and respectable historical subjects or social themes — were thin on the ground throughout the year, though a handful did show up on Netflix.
    — New York Times, 27 Jan. 2021
  • While other studios focused on blockbuster franchises and intellectual property, STX would put top-tier movie stars in mid-budget films.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021

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