How to Use prize money in a Sentence

prize money

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  • The pool of prize money was set to grow for the Feb. 21 drawing.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The winners have 180 days from the day of the draw to claim their prize money.
    — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024
  • Then the bulk of the prize money goes to the person who caught the largest white marlin.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Somewhat unique to Chefs vs. Wild is the lack of prize money for the winner.
    — Briana Riddock, Outside Online, 26 Sep. 2022
  • With no winner, the pool of prize money is set to grow for the Wednesday draw.
    — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2023
  • So the championship, along with $1,800 in prize money, went to Rawls.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
  • With no winner, the prize money pool is set to grow for the May 22 drawing.
    — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 21 May 2024
  • Each of the winning golfers earned $1.242 million in prize money.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 24 Apr. 2023
  • For the first time, U.S. track and field gold medalists will receive prize money at the Olympics.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024
  • Now, the prize money may help the family’s goal of getting a new house.
    — Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • With no winner, the pool of prize money is set to grow for the Saturday, Sept. 9, draw.
    — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
  • With no winner, the pool of prize money is set to grow for Wednesday night's draw.
    — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
  • There’s a lot of prize money to be doled out to this year’s New York City Marathon winners.
    — Nadav Gavrielov, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Waiting at the end of it all: a trophy dubbed the NBA Cup and a pool of prize money worth around $18 million.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Of those games, several of them were for prize money and 25 of them were live streamed.
    — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Her current focus is the prize money at the Women’s World Cup.
    — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 24 July 2023
  • Once the prize money gets to the players, each team decides how to distribute it.
    — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The drawing for the prize money will be on Tuesday, which will be the 24th roll for it since the jackpot was last won on April 18 in New York.
    — Alex Lo, NBC News, 8 July 2023
  • The bulk of the sport’s 1,300 tournaments are far-flung and offer little prize money.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The prize money is to be split between the producers and the directors of the winning film.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 2 July 2024
  • From bike and boat rentals to nature guides to a post-hike massage, use this prize money to play, eat, and relax.
    — Outside Online, 20 July 2022
  • Many people are focusing on the prize money, but the money is just like the cherry on top of the milkshake.
    — Stephanie Tharpe, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The prize money will be split between the producers and the directors of the winning film.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 2 July 2024
  • This year in Qatar, however, the men’s prize money tops $440 million.
    — Amy Bass, CNN, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The prize money pales in comparison to the average $9.1 million purse on the PGA tour.
    — Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Rahm has long been a staunch supporter of the PGA Tour but freely admits changes to the schedule and the prize money came about because of the breakaway league.
    — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The China Open was second in prize money only to the World Championship.
    — Amy Gunia, Time, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The Baltimore city worker is still in shock and hasn’t made plans to spend the prize money yet, officials said.
    — Helena Wegner, Miami Herald, 9 July 2024
  • Not to be overlooked is how prize money — $25 million for each event — can pile up quickly.
    — Doug Ferguson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2022
  • For authors, the prize money ultimately doesn’t matter as much as the uptick in book sales post-award.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 Oct. 2022

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