Example Sentences

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As the search disastrously proceeded, he burned through money on the production as though Paramount Pictures were footing the bill.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2024

Bankman-Fried authorized investments in K5 projects that enriched Kives and Baum with no payoff for FTX or its customers, who were footing the bill, FTX alleged.

From Reuters • Jun. 22, 2023

In 2016, the newspaper found that the state's residents were footing 90 percent of the bill for cleanups.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2023

Per tradition, we were footing the bill for the wedding and reception at a nice hotel near our home and a nice honeymoon to a coastal resort in California.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2020

He set out for the scene of revelry, and soon drew near the ring where, in a gay company of males and females, they were footing it to the music of the harp.

From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt