How to Use deficit in a Sentence

deficit

noun

• The team overcame a four-point deficit to win the game.
• She has a slight hearing deficit in her left ear.
• We will reduce the federal budget deficit.
• The government is facing a deficit of $3 billion.
• The hit cut the deficit to 2-1 and gave the Sox second and third with one out.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2022
• Xavier came back from a 13-point deficit in the first half to pull off the win.
  — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
• The policies have added $145 billion to the deficit, the CBO said.
  — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 19 June 2024
• Taveras' two-run homer was his third of the year, and cut the deficit to 4-3 in the seventh.
  — Stephen Hawkins, ajc, 16 July 2022
• This will create a deficit on the side with the dumbbell.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 8 Aug. 2023
• Gavin Sheets homered in the eighth, cutting the deficit to 4-2.
  — Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
• The deficit ballooned in March this year to $378 billion.
  — Cristina Larue, arkansasonline.com, 13 Dec. 2023
• Bill Clinton’s deficit was in the midteens for much of the off year in the 1992 election.
  — Aaron Blake, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2023
• When the deficit gets a little bit bigger down the stretch.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Dec. 2022
• But the Oilers wouldn’t quit, cutting the deficit with 12:09 to play on the first of Bouchard’s two goals.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
• Re-al Mitchell’s 2-yard touchdown run cut the deficit to 10-7.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
• The Pirates cut the deficit to 6-1 in the fourth on Oneil Cruz’s leadoff homer to right, his 18th of the season.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
• And smaller deficits are forecast for the next three years.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• Even when the Warriors clawed back within 10, the deficit felt like a canyon.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
• But New York erased the deficit with a big third quarter, outscoring the Lynx 20-10.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2024
• The Heat showed some fight by cutting the deficit to three points with 52.6 seconds left.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2025
• The Patriots scored two plays later to trim the deficit to 31-26.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
• He got stuffed, the Chiefs then took over and drove downfield for a field goal to cut their deficit to 17-16.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 4 Jan. 2024
• The third part of Biden’s plan is to reduce the national deficit.
  — Colin Lodewick, Fortune, 31 May 2022
• The Guardians rallied from a three-run deficit in the 10th inning to stun the Twins on Wednesday night, 7-6.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 30 June 2022
• Collins came back with another jumper to cut the deficit to 6 and then Young took over.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
• That’s the kind of deficit the president-elect would like to reverse in the U.S.’s favor.
  — Byjames Morris, Fortune Europe, 26 Nov. 2024
• The Suns came back to cut the deficit to six on a basket by Booker with 1:57 to play in the third quarter.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 13 Apr. 2024
• His first assist of the game was on a free kick in the 68th minute to cut Miami’s deficit to 2-1.
  — Laurel Pfahler, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
• The city is now being encouraged to cut staff to reduce its deficit and overtime pay.
  — arkansasonline.com, 11 July 2025
• Musk, who earlier this year was among Trump’s top advisors, had a heated public feud with the president last month over Musk’s concerns that Trump’s sweeping tax cuts and spending bill would add to the federal deficit.
  — Lawrence Andrea, jsonline.com, 10 July 2025