Example Sentences

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For example, a new tax credit defrays 30% of the costs of installing rooftop solar and battery storage.

From Salon • Aug. 29, 2024

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said he hadn’t studied Feyen’s amendment but said a surcharge on non-Brewer events would be reasonable if it defrays the overall state contribution.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2023

A hearing on how the U.S. government defrays the cost of doing federally funded research on college campuses might put most people to sleep.

From Science Magazine • May 26, 2017

Not only do universities rely on federal grants for research but federal funding also defrays overhead expenses associated with that research, sometimes called indirect costs.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2013

The public is but a generous patron who defrays the postage. 

From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Stevenson, Robert Louis