Example Sentences

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Liccardo said Santa Clara taxpayers — the majority of whom reside in San Jose — have footed the bill for eight-figure payouts in response to the failures of the sheriff’s management.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2021

Traditionally, cities and counties have footed the bill for expanding roads and other utilities for new development, forecasting jobs, population growth, and an expanded tax base but discounting distant repair obligations.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2017

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — It is called the airport to nowhere and for years taxpayers have footed the bill.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2011

There was a yellow late- payment notice from Nov. 23, 2012, when the city should have footed all the rent; and another from four months later, when the city was late again.

From Washington Post

The lane was a place of enchantment—a long, moonlit colonnade adown which beguiling wood nymphs might have footed it featly.

From Chronicles of Avonlea by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)