How to Use foot the bill in a Sentence

foot the bill

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• Working families would foot the bill if the senator's grocer act passes.
  — FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
• Some of those funds could help foot the bill for a concerted effort to persuade employees of nonunion automakers to join the union.
  — Marick Masters, The Conversation, 27 Nov. 2023
• Democrats are trying to fuel innovation and ensure the companies who benefit most foot the bill.
  — David Kieve, Time, 10 July 2026
• Even automakers who will be footing the bill were on board with the new law, which is less onerous for them than a similar law in the European Union.
  — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 13 July 2026
• In the meantime, grid operators scramble to upgrade their infrastructure and make existing customers foot the bill.
  — Sasha Luccioni, Time, 3 July 2026
• Host cities are footing the bill, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on security, transit, and infrastructure.
  — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 7 July 2026
• The agency’s decision not to publicly release cost estimates is especially odd given how expensive this could be for taxpayers who foot the bill.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• That dynamic, Cramer said, has rewarded the companies selling the picks and shovels of the AI boom rather than the companies footing the bill.
  — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 30 June 2026
• Hyperion sits in a parish of about 20,000 people, one of the poorest in Louisiana, and the expansion is reviving hard questions about who ultimately foots the bill for a project of this scale.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 13 July 2026
• The president confirmed that Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of weapons giant Lockheed Martin, is footing the bill toward the end of a lengthy and meandering Oval Office event on Monday, July 6.
  — Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026