How to Use trust fund in a Sentence

trust fund

noun
  • 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
  • None of the assumptions about the trust fund are locked in stone.
    John F. Wasik, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Brea was one of the first cities to establish this type of trust fund.
    Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The trust fund would be used to help renters and landlords, Elliott said.
    Alyson Hoge, Arkansas Online, 9 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • These personal wins were rarely due to mere luck or a big trust fund.
    Kelly Stiefel Arias, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2024
  • Legend long had it that Parsons, who lived off a trust fund, paid for the clothing.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2023
  • The bill would have used at least $5 million from the state’s transportation trust fund to conduct the study.
    Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 27 May 2022
  • Earlier this year, the last major victim groups cut a deal with the Boy Scouts to back the trust fund.
    Steven Church, Bloomberg.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The trust fund last lapsed in 2010, but employees were quickly called back to work.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • That’s the purpose of the trust fund, which was approved by the City Council last year with Dickens as a cosponsor.
    Wilborn Nobles, ajc, 16 May 2022
  • If markets are booming one year, the trust fund might get more money.
    Hannah K. Sparling, The Enquirer, 28 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Don’t shoot the messenger, but the Trustees project that the Medicare hospital trust fund will run dry in 2026.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The Medicare trust fund faces the most near-term economic challenges.
    Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Retirees would also be facing a bigger benefit cut, up to 33% of their monthly checks rather than the 23% currently forecast, when the trust fund is exhausted, the group estimates.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The protagonist of this comic novel is George, a millennial with vague writerly aspirations, who sustains his aimless life style by drawing on family connections and his girlfriend’s trust fund.
    The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024

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