How to Use earmark in a Sentence

earmark

1 of 2 noun

• That’s about a quarter of the earmark funds for the state.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 27 Nov. 2025
• But earmarks have since made a big comeback.
  — Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 18 Aug. 2025
• The death of earmarks that, for so many years, fueled projects on the home front.
  — Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• The ban would have applied to the earmarks contained in that bill.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2023
• And earmark years back called pathway to the building trades.
  — cleveland, 8 Apr. 2022
• Stern’s office said the earmark for the private school wasn’t his.
  — Wire Report, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
• His earmarks were from the general fund.
  — Wire Report, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
• But dozens of other earmarks requests are in limbo.
  — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2026
• Starting next year, state law will require earmark requests to have names attached to them.
  — Lily Altavena, Freep.com, 24 Nov. 2025
• And the lack of a tiebreaker is also an earmark that this is a Slam and not a run-of-the-mill event.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• This story has the earmarks of a year-end effort to shore up a journalism awards entry.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2019
• While some lawmakers quietly ask for earmarks, Collins is loud and proud about hers.
  — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 15 May 2026
• Many of the familiar earmarks are in this single-movement, multi-episode work.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• The $100 million earmark would be direct funding from the state.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2022
• The funds come from the Invest in Cook program, which earmarks grants for transit projects.
  — Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
• Ryan also lacks the tools available to prior leaders, like hometown earmarks.
  — Andrew Taylor, The Denver Post, 24 Mar. 2017
• Reed and Whitehouse, who are both Democrats, supported the earmark.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
• The back-slapping creature of K Street who never took a single earmark.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
• Throughout the earmark craze, top think tanks would expose the most egregious earmarks within hours of a bill’s release.
  — Brian Riedl, National Review, 2 Mar. 2021
• And there’s one earmark that has the backing of all four Utah representatives.
  — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 May 2021
• Earmarks can be inserted into a bill to help win the support of a member of Congress.
  — Joseph Weber, Fox News, 19 July 2017
• There are almost certainly more earmarks buried in the other budget measures.
  — Wire Report, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
• In response, the House reformed its rules to require that the sponsor of every earmark must be made public.
  — Ledyard King, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2020
• And some have won big, with grants created seemingly geared to their products or through specific earmarks.
  — Lily Altavena, Freep.com, 24 Nov. 2025
• Some Democratic lawmakers complained that so many last-minute earmarks had popped up in the spending bills.
  — Wire Report, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
• The fund should provide new funds in addition to the existing budget earmarks, not replace funds that will be spent elsewhere.
  — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 16 Feb. 2026
• Britt, sworn into office only eight months ago, accounted for more than 76 percent of the state’s earmarks.
  — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 12 Aug. 2023
• Lawmakers will be able to make new earmarks requests later in the year for fiscal year 2027.
  — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2026
• But about a quarter of it — $88 million — is going to projects the board must now fund because of lawmakers’ earmarks.
  — Wire Report, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
• During the previous legislative session, a source told me to check out an unusual earmark in the state budget.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 3 Nov. 2022

earmark

2 of 2 verb

• The project uses funds that had been earmarked for education.
• The funds are earmarked for road and bridge repairs.
  — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
• Will anyone be earmarked for a loan away?
  — Sam Lee, New York Times, 2 June 2026
• Will anyone be earmarked for a loan away?
  — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 5 June 2026
• None of the money was earmarked for jails.
  — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
• There’s also a large amount of funds earmarked for the three-year mark.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2025
• Part of that money was earmarked for York.
  — Craig Fehrman, Space.com, 6 Apr. 2026
• Part of that money was earmarked for York.
  — Craig Fehrman, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2026
• That left a fourth-round pick likely earmarked for running back.
  — Jesse Newell, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
• Georgia's gas taxes are earmarked for roads and bridges.
  — Dan Raby, CBS News, 1 June 2026
• The garage will stand on part of a site once earmarked for one of the city’s largest apartment towers.
  — Mark Dee july 17, Idaho Statesman, 17 July 2026
• The garage would stand on part of a site once earmarked for one of the city’s largest apartment towers.
  — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 6 Mar. 2026
• This is even before the fact that the money was earmarked for your wedding.
  — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
• One dollar of every ticket sold will be earmarked for the fund.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• The money was taken from a fund earmarked for housing.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
• Much of that cash was earmarked for bond interest payments.
  — Tom Hudson, Sun Sentinel, 4 May 2026
• Production is earmarked for this spring.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2026
• The money from the tax was earmarked to pay for updates to the borough’s sewage system.
  — Christina McDermott, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
• The money is earmarked for a new skate plaza in Encanto.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2025
• The government says the land earmarked for the project is privately owned.
  — ABC News, 3 June 2026
• The government says the land earmarked for the project is privately owned.
  — Zana Cimili, Fortune, 12 June 2026
• One role that seems to have only one person earmarked is the classic villain Luthor.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2023
• The pace has been so slow that federal grant money earmarked for some projects will have to be returned due to the lack of progress.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2026
• That includes money earmarked for North Texas.
  — Bo Evans, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
• More than $50 billion was earmarked to protect against droughts, heat, floods, and wildfires.
  — John Fund, National Review, 24 Aug. 2023
• And yet details are sketchy on where such a force would be deployed and how all the money earmarked for it will be tracked and disbursed.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
• Federal money is earmarked to cover more than two-thirds of the tunnel’s cost.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
• Shilaya looks south over a garden earmarked for future cottages, with staff quarters to the west.
  — New Atlas, 3 July 2026
• The support is earmarked in the form of a purse of 20 million yuan (~$3 million).
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026
• Of the 54 units in the building, six of them are earmarked for low-income residents.
  — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024