Examples of shell out in a Sentence
we shelled out an obscene amount of money for those concert tickets
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The Wave shelled out a roughly $300,000 transfer fee to bring Macario over this month before her contract expires this summer, one of the people said.
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Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 16 Mar. 2026
Manz requested that the restaurant shell out $100,000 to compensate him for medical expenses, pain and suffering, emotional distress and lost enjoyment of his New York City trip.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2026
Payton said multiple times around the season’s end that Denver had too many drops in the passing game, but the Broncos haven’t shelled out in an inflated receiver market to fix that.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2026
So the idea is that Breakaway goers aren’t shelling out all of this extra money just to get to the concert and stay in town.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2026
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Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 16 Mar. 2026
Manz requested that the restaurant shell out $100,000 to compensate him for medical expenses, pain and suffering, emotional distress and lost enjoyment of his New York City trip.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2026
Payton said multiple times around the season’s end that Denver had too many drops in the passing game, but the Broncos haven’t shelled out in an inflated receiver market to fix that.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2026
So the idea is that Breakaway goers aren’t shelling out all of this extra money just to get to the concert and stay in town.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2026
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“Shell out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shell%20out. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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