How to Use war chest in a Sentence

war chest

noun
  • 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
  • Still, Hawley's war chest is more than twice the size of Kunce's.
    Samantha Liss, CBS News, 9 May 2024
  • Still, Hawley’s war chest is more than twice the size of Kunce’s.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 21 May 2024
  • 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
  • And so, Iger and Disney took back those rights, and sought to create a new war chest of IP.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 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 war chest of draft picks and swaps the team possesses was part of his rationale.
    Christian Clark | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 21 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Wenstrup already had a war chest of more than $1 million as of April.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 13 July 2020
  • And he's headed into the summer with a war chest of just over $4 million.
    Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Davis is also sitting on a campaign war chest that could be hard to beat.
    Melissa Holzberg Depalo, CNN, 21 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • In the governor's race, McCormick has just a fraction of Braun's war chest.
    Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 9 July 2024
  • 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
  • Both campaigns have been building huge war chests to blanket the airwaves in the coming months.
    Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 28 June 2024
  • Those gift card expenses were paid not by the PAC, but by the campaign itself, which had its own war chest.
    Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2024
  • That's a massive war chest with less than three weeks until Election Day.
    Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Trump had a much larger war chest, his campaign filing showed.
    Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Even with all the legal expenditures, the RNC has continued to build a huge war chest over the past year.
    Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Despite Zeldin’s much larger war chest, recent polls show the two are neck and neck in the runup to the general election.
    Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 16 Oct. 2020
  • And there’s a campaign war chest larger than Trump’s, allowing Harris to keep up the pressure with advertising and expansive get-out-the-vote efforts.
    Chris Megerian, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
  • But Waymo is a pioneer in autonomous vehicles that’s years ahead, with a massive war chest from Alphabet, which has already invested $10 billion into the project in the last decade.
    Richard Nieva, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024

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