Example Sentences

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States are flush, and rather than holding onto their surpluses for a rainy day, many of them are doling out cash to residents.

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2023

Some are back to pre-COVID-19, one-use-per-patient N95 protocols, but most are doling out one mask a day or fewer to each employee.

From Washington Times • Feb. 16, 2021

Yet all seem to have gotten through Covid-19, and all have gotten an antibody treatment in such short supply that some hospitals and states are doling it out by lottery.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2020

And, in areas where banks are finding growth, like credit-card lending, they are doling out fat rewards and cutting interest rates to lure customers from one another.

From Reuters • Apr. 13, 2017

Moms are doling it out for breakfast, yet it's got more sugar per ounce than Coke.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 12, 2011