FUND in a Sentence

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210 example sentences for FUND, such as:
1. They act as joint trustees of the fund.
2. We made a contribution to the famine relief fund.
3. They persistently stuck him with fund collection.
4. This money will help to fund administration costs.
5. He is possessed of an extraordinary fund of energy.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FUND
fund
 v.  accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability
 n.  a supply of something available for future use
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  She did not, she said, want charity for them, but a chance of self-help; an employment bureau, direction in washing babies and making pleasing stews, possibly a municipal fund for home-building.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  With Vida as lieutenant and unofficial commander she campaigned for a village nurse to attend poor families, raised the fund herself, saw to it that the nurse was young and strong and amiable and intelligent.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  Yet there have been known to be philosophers and plain men who swore by Malthus in the books, and would, nevertheless, subscribe to a relief fund in time of a famine.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
4  The brewer was a Jew, and had no brains, but he was harmless, and would put up a rare campaign fund.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
5  He was a slightly ragged man, who spat skillfully between his shoes and possessed a great fund of bland and infantile assurance.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  Though she was totally ignorant, she had high ambitions for her children, and a large fund of good, hard, common sense, which seemed to enable her to meet and master every situation.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
7  I did receive, however, a small salary from the public fund, for my work as a public-school teacher.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
8  The last time I saw him, which was a few months before he died, he gave me fifty thousand dollars toward our endowment fund.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII.
9  Our work seemed to please the trustees of this fund, as they soon began increasing their annual grant.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII.
10  His daughter attended him with the greatest tenderness, but she saw with despair that their little fund was rapidly decreasing and that there was no other prospect of support.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
11  He seemed to find an immense fund of reflection in this circumstance, and sat pondering and inwardly whistling for some time.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
12  For this express reason, I had borrowed the half-guinea, that I might not be without a fund for my travelling-expenses.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
13  He created at his own expense an infant school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old and infirm workmen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
14  Having an immense reserve fund of wrath to get rid of, and not knowing what to do with it, he continued to address his daughter as you instead of thou for the next three months.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE
15  He was poor, but his fund of good humor was inexhaustible.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Example Sentence: (161 in 11 pages)
1  They act as joint trustees of the fund.
2  This money will help to fund administration costs.
3  The project was suspended because of the shortage of fund.
4  The hospital has set up a special fund to buy new equipment.
5  They persistently stuck him with fund collection.
6  Although the concept of fund accounting is relatively simple, specific applications of it can be difficult to understand.
7  The fund theory offers the reporting accountant the flexibility to define the reporting unit where the definition is most useful.
8  The money received is paid directly into a pension fund.
9  He is possessed of an extraordinary fund of energy.
10  Let us now examine the published accounts of a simplified local authority to see the effects of adopting fund accounting.
11  The fund has been used largely to finance the construction of federal prisons.
12  We made a contribution to the famine relief fund.
13  The house fell into disrepair until a restoration fund was set up.
14  The fund is largely financed through government borrowing.
15  The newspaper launched an appeal fund for victims of the disaster.