How to Use war chest in a Sentence

war chest

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  • The candidate held fund-raising dinners to build up his war chest.
  • The war chest to fund the event holds almost $250 million.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 June 2023
  • The aim is to shrink Mr. Putin’s war chest while keeping prices from new highs.
    — Joe Wallace and Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
  • But Oye is building a war chest to bankroll the battle.
    — Simran Vaswani, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • So not too far apart there, but, uh, Yost has more than a million in his war chest.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The slowdown of oil sales also put a major dent in the Kremlin’s war chest.
    — Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The freeze rendered half of the more than $600 billion in Putin’s war chest unusable.
    — Josh Boak, Chron, 20 Mar. 2022
  • That left Patrick’s campaign with a $22.2 million war chest.
    — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
  • Both sides have sizable war chests to carry a deep strike.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2023
  • And the two-term senator has a war chest six times larger than the GOP field of candidates.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Big pharma has brought its war chest to protect the status quo.
    — WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Three of the groups are also deploying their war chests to try to rack up legal wins.
    — Lauren Weber, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Trump ended June with the largest campaign war chest in the GOP primary with $22.5 million left to spend on the race.
    — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 17 July 2023
  • In the years before invading Ukraine, Russia amassed a war chest of gold.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Trump had a much larger war chest, his campaign filing showed.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Cawthorn is fighting the onslaught of attack ads with a depleted war chest.
    — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
  • Its war chest is much fuller than anything the Syrian rebels ever had.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Cuellar had dipped into his war chest after his home and campaign office were searched by the FBI.
    — David Weigel and Michael Scherer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The war chest spent on building the metaverse is currently an asset drain without any end in sight.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • The combined entity will also have a 1 billion-euro war chest to do more M&A deals, the banker added.
    — Angelina Rascouet, Bloomberg.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Now, Tesla is sitting on a war chest of around $22 billion in cash and short-term investments.
    — Rebecca Elliott, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Investing campaign funds is a rare — but precedented — move that some politicians have made in the past to grow their war chests.
    — Sahil Kapur, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Democrats are defending a 22-18 margin in that chamber and Youngkin has amassed a gigantic war chest to try to flip it.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • For months, Democrats worried that No Labels, the centrist group that claimed to have a $70 million war chest, would field a brand-name candidate.
    — Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Gibbs has also struggled to compete with Scholten's campaign war chest.
    — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2022
  • That’s a big war chest for blockchain companies that helps them to offer even better salaries than what most big tech players do.
    — Karim Nurani, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the former president has continued to lay the groundwork for a 2024 run and has amassed a deep war chest of campaign funds.
    — Katherine Swartz, USA TODAY, 10 July 2022
  • Kelly has also amassed a campaign war chest of more than $27.5 million for his re-election bid.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Blackstone has raised about $200 billion in recent months, according to Schwarzman, who called that war chest one of the biggest piles of unspent cash in the world.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Mund, with a nominal war chest and no party backing, would need to earn a wild-card victory.
    — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2022

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