How to Use trust fund in a Sentence

trust fund

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  • She paid for college out of a trust fund set up for her by her grandfather.
  • In the end, the waivers themselves will cost the trust fund much less than $281 million.
    — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
  • Maybe a first date wasn’t the right moment to bring up your trust fund.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Sarah hired Sonn, and within a year the sisters asked her to help run their trust fund, too.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • At one point, the trust fund sat on a $2.9 trillion surplus, but now the time to act is drawing to a close.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2023
  • The cost of health care for U.A.W. retirees has been shifted from the automakers to a union trust fund.
    — Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • The buyer would pay $6,000 to the city’s affordable housing trust fund.
    — Morgan Lee, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Legend long had it that Parsons, who lived off a trust fund, paid for the clothing.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2023
  • Bruce had enough left of his trust fund to go into business.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2022
  • Bruce still had enough left of his trust fund to go into business.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2022
  • Get all the details on the old money aesthetic, plus how to get the look without a trust fund.
    — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The money for the shelters, which will come from a loan from the city’s trust fund, is still being reviewed, the statement said.
    — Jeong Park, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Here's how to embrace the look, regardless of your trust fund status.
    — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 5 May 2023
  • Under the deal, the rail board would sell the railroad and use the proceeds to create a trust fund called Building Our Future.
    — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 28 June 2023
  • The money will go to Medicare's trust fund, which is used to pay claims for the federal health program.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
  • And more importantly, how can it be achieved (trust fund or not)?
    — House Beautiful, 26 May 2023
  • No, the patron is not an A-lister living on Daddy’s trust fund.
    — Matt Keenan, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Little trust fund baby panicked when the stock price began to fall.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
  • At that time, the trust fund would be sufficient to pay about 80% of scheduled benefits.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2022
  • This is Boehm’s gloss on the familiar projection that the program’s trust fund will run out some time in the middle of that decade.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Currently, the key Medicare trust fund is at risk of running out of money in 2028.
    — Laura Smythe, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • That could have worked out fine while money was flowing into the trust fund, pushing up prices.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2023
  • The proposition sets up a trust fund for the money and bars the Legislature from touching it.
    — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • When someone onstage asked the audience how many of them were born with a trust fund, the answer was laughter.
    — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
  • This time, the bill would add a trust fund provision, which would accept donations.
    — Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The money raised by the sale of the 337-mile railway would go into a trust fund, the interest from which would be tapped for infrastructure projects.
    — The Enquirer, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Exempting cars for their first six years likely would cut about $3 million from the trust fund, Nizer added.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Pete's star power is on full display in his role as David, a rich trust fund kid who just may be a murderer.
    — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 19 July 2022
  • Most of that money goes to the state’s opioid trust fund, which now totals around $38 million, Boffetti said.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The president proposed that 60 percent of the budget surplus for the next 15 years should go directly into the trust fund.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 27 June 2022

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