How to Use treasury in a Sentence

treasury

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  • The fees are deposited into the state's treasury.
  • A part of the nation's treasury is spent on space exploration.
  • The author has collected a treasury of facts and lore about horses.
  • A government official has been accused of stealing from the nation's treasury.
  • The suit seeks the return of tens of millions of dollars to the city treasury.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2021
  • And the billions raised would not have flowed into the state treasury.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2020
  • No one prints more dollars than the Maple Leaf treasury.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The reason for checks payable to Brecksville is because that is where the Yuletide treasury is.
    — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Could the downgrade force investors to sell treasuries?
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 2 Aug. 2023
  • When the treasury was full, then Opet was more opulent.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
  • At the same time, a sharp recession could drain the corporate treasury of funds to buy one.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 23 May 2020
  • Brady Olsen, the city’s treasury and debt manager said at a hearing on the rule change in Austin Tuesday.
    — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Their tuition revenue doesn’t come through the state treasury.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 16 June 2021
  • Gold and treasury futures climbed with the yen as investors sought safer haven assets.
    — Time, 3 Jan. 2020
  • The firm prides itself on putting all deposits toward the purchase of short-term U.S. treasury bills.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2020
  • If that doesn’t happen the money becomes the property of the U.S. treasury.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The state treasury has put more than $26 million into a namesake fund.
    — Matthew Casey, The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Perhaps the biggest factor is that the state treasury is flushed with revenues.
    — John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 1 June 2023
  • At the same time, Roy sought to become more involved in the day-to-day treasury operations and Hodges had less time to work with him.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Team owners do this all the time when there’s a dollar to be snatched from the public treasury or a zoning dispute to be won.
    — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2021
  • The graph below shows the movement of yields for these treasuries from the beginning of 2018 to the most recent date in January.
    — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2020
  • That money technically is the Queen's, but by law the monarchy first gives its income to the U.K. treasury, which then grants back 25% to the Queen.
    — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2020
  • For that reason, both interest rates and 10-year treasury bond rates tend to rise and fall in lockstep.
    — R.a. Schuetz, Houston Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Bonds, on the other hand, like US treasuries, are debt instruments.
    — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2024
  • Ohio law allows a candidate to give the money to charity, to the Ohio treasury or refund it back to the donor.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Surely there’s enough money in the treasury to pay for such worthwhile efforts.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Silicon Valley Bank was forced to sell the treasuries at a $1.8 billion loss.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Iran also has to pare the onerous subsidies that have long drained its treasury.
    — Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 26 July 2022
  • That money comes straight out of the public treasury, because San Diego County is self-insured.
    — Jeff McDonald, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
  • No wonder Sigmund Freud was drawn to this treasury of human nature.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024

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