How to Use cut a check in a Sentence

cut a check

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  • Soon, shoppers will not be able to cut a check to pay for the contents of their Target shopping baskets.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
  • Two months later, Blazel cut a check for Gableman’s expenses.
    Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Blank Barbers has cut a check for its Cherry Creek real estate.
    Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The first risk is asking friends and family to believe in you and cut a check, which can be a humbling and sometimes unkind process.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively have cut a check to help with hurricane relief efforts.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The tax preparer wants a refund deposited into one of her accounts and then plans to cut a check and send the taxpayers their refund.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2021
  • But at its core, youth sports is an evergreen business, with new customers—parents willing to cut a check—entering the market each year.
    Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The next day the public office run by Greenberg cut a check for that amount to Greenberg’s private company.
    Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Randolph said taxing authorities who levied taxes on the theme parks won’t have to cut a check out of their budgets to repay Disney.
    Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 23 July 2021
  • Members are asked to sign a letter of acknowledgement and cut a check to the PABF for the salary cap correction.
    Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2024
  • No longer does the New York headquarters cut a check from a Big Five publisher to place the season’s hot new memoir on front tables nationwide.
    Henry Grabar, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
  • These products can appeal to taxpayers who are eager to get their refunds and who don't want to wait days or weeks for the IRS to deposit the money into their accounts or cut a check.
    Kate Gibson, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Select Medical cut a check of about $5 million — a rounding error for a conglomerate that generates more than $6 billion of revenue every year.
    Bob Herman and Casey Ross, STAT, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Bethune, like many north Minneapolis schools, lacks a formal Parent Teacher Association that could cut a check for such items.
    Mara Klecker, Star Tribune, 28 June 2021
  • But Murdaugh allegedly cut a check in 2012 made payable to Palmetto State Bank, and the man’s family never saw any of the funds.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The first person to cut a check to Turning Point was investment manager turned Republican donor Foster Friess, whom Kirk met at the 2012 Republican National Convention.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2025

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