How to Use over budget in a Sentence

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• Bedrock also is over budget on the project — and must cover most of those overruns.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2023
• The trains were shut down for two-and-a-half months for repairs that went $3 million over budget.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
• The Pettit is already near or over budget for electric and gas and well over costs of a year ago.
  — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2022
• The report says that was $860,000 over budget for the month.
  — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
• That follows years of delays and costs running $1 billion over budget.
  — Mackenzie McCarty, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2024
• To no one’s surprise, the project went massively over budget and years behind schedule.
  — Elizabeth Blackwell, Longreads, 14 Nov. 2024
• But that project came in $18 billion over budget and seven years behind schedule.
  — PC Magazine, 16 July 2025
• Some of the problems that have put the program behind schedule and over budget stemmed from how the rocket was conceived.
  — Denise Chow, NBC news, 26 Mar. 2026
• The audit found the food department was hundreds of thousands of dollars over budget.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• The biggest problem with car loans is that the spike in prices [during the pandemic] caused people to get in over budget.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 28 Dec. 2022
• Finance receives hundreds of receipts, many over budget.
  — Amiad Solomon, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• Still, the Vogtle expansion has been plagued by delayed and is billions over budget.
  — Drew Kann, ajc, 17 Aug. 2023
• Sadly, all the elements of this program are behind schedule and over budget.
  — Madelyn Creedon, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2024
• But criticism has come quickly for the proposals over budget concerns since most loans would not be repaid in full.
  — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner, 18 Jan. 2023
• The Netflix movie broke down over budget disputes, per Variety, but that doesn’t seem to be the last of it.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 5 Feb. 2026
• The project finished $187 million over budget and two years behind schedule.
  — Camille Squires, Quartz, 5 Jan. 2022
• None of this is to suggest the producers of these shows were irresponsible in their spending or went way over budget.
  — Vulture, 1 Feb. 2024
• The Elizabeth Line is four years late, wildly over budget, and beautiful as hell.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 27 May 2022
• The shoot ran way over budget and schedule, the mechanical sharks constantly broke down, and tensions among the cast often flared.
  — Allison Degrushe Published, EW.com, 16 July 2025
• History suggests this bet will end the same way most do—over budget, underperforming, and on the public’s dime.
  — Johnny Kampis, Oc Register, 21 Jan. 2026
• The project has caused frustration and headaches for drivers since 2021 and is now behind schedule and over budget.
  — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 23 Dec. 2025
• Renovations began three years ago and are now $700 million over budget.
  — Ryan Mancini, The Hill, 13 Jan. 2026
• Over the course of its development, the telescope ran billions of dollars over budget and was finished more than a decade behind schedule.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2021
• With more stage room to work with than their previous, 2022 tour, the ideas for the stage design are next level… and just a tad bit over budget.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
• The request comes as the state's prisons are overflowing with inmates, and the department is over budget by millions of dollars.
  — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2026
• But Boeing is at least three years behind schedule in delivering the jets, and the project is more than $2 billion over budget.
  — Brett Samuels, The Hill, 21 Feb. 2025
• The pipeline is six years behind schedule, about half a billion dollars over budget, and, despite promises that it would be done by the end of last year, delayed once again.
  — Katie Myers, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2024
• And there’s $5 million for the World Games, a thing which already happened in Birmingham but ran over budget.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 29 Mar. 2023
• Instead of ripping up and replacing the taupe wall-to-wall carpeting, which would have been costly and over budget, Pabian added an area rug on top of it.
  — Meghan Holloran, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2025
• That said, Design Within Reach can lead you to go over budget quickly, since many of the pieces are priced in the hundreds or thousands of dollars.
  — Deanna Pai, Peoplemag, 1 May 2023