How to Use deduct in a Sentence

deduct

verb

• You can deduct up to $500 for money given to charity.
• Navone said the landlord offered to deduct $300 from the next month’s rent.
  — Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• The apps then deduct a portion of that fee for themselves and give the worker the rest.
  — Matthew Sedacca, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• The apps then deduct a portion of that fee for themselves and give the worker the rest.
  — Matthew Sedacca, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2019
• The balance is the amount that the grantor can deduct when the grantor contributes the property to the trust.
  — Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 22 May 2021
• The bill the House passed would allow union members to deduct up to $250 of dues from their tax bills.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2021
• Potts says Bass Champs does not deduct the weight of the plastic weigh-in bag from the actual weight of the fish.
  — Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2021
• Time was deducted for each item planed in the wrong bin.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• Anyone that breaks the rules causes a cash sum to be deducted from the prize fund.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 May 2023
• Each episode watched deducts a certain amount of coins from their wallet.
  — Schuyler Moore, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
• Buyers of new EVs get to deduct the full $7,500 from their income taxes for the year in which the car is purchased.
  — Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• The prepayment will be deducted from your bill at the end of your meal.
  — Jenny Porter Tilley, The Courier-Journal, 26 Nov. 2024
• The bill had allowed for business owners to deduct up to 17.4% of their profits.
  — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2021
• Those 65 and older and the blind can deduct additional amounts.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
• Here are some examples of things for which a landlord can deduct.
  — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2020
• In addition to the Child Tax Credit, working parents can deduct some of the cost of child care.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2020
• In that case, Jennet wouldn't be able to deduct the $800 capital loss on her taxes.
  — Shehan Chandrasekera, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• Employers may choose to pay all of it or deduct up to 0.11% of it from employees’ wages.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
• Chhabra said that, at the time, the company did not know that they were not allowed to deduct wages under the H-1B program.
  — Trisha Thadani, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2018
• Take photographs of the locks, keep the receipts for the labor and materials, and deduct the cost from your rent.
  — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2021
• Parties need to be creative in looking for ways to deduct their legal fees.
  — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• The comptroller cannot deduct more than $2 million in a fiscal year.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025
• The money can be deducted from your gross income and grows tax-free.
  — Brian Sloan, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2025
• Parties need to be creative in looking for ways to deduct their legal fees.
  — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• Parties need to be creative in looking for ways to deduct their legal fees.
  — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 2 June 2022
• If endorsed by parliament, 80% of the discount will come from the hoteliers, who will be able to deduct it from their tax bills.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• The Heat wouldn’t be able to deduct half his salary — or the cumulative amount of his fines — from its luxury tax bill.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2025
• By year’s end, Lynn hopes to find a way for potential donors to be able to deduct contributions.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2022
• The keyboard is large and comfortable, with a few points deducted for HP's insistence on cramped arrow keys, and the touchpad feels good.
  — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 27 May 2025
• The tax bill includes a provision that would loosen restrictions on how businesses deduct interest, making leveraged businesses more attractive to dealmakers.
  — Ryan Barwick, Axios, 21 May 2025