How to Use self-finance in a Sentence

self-finance

verb

• Talk to me about the decision to self-finance, produce and then license the special.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2023
• The campaign of Trone, the wealthy co-founder of the Total Wine & More retail chain, is almost entirely self-financed.
  — Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2024
• The terms are incredibly favorable for Swift, reports have said, who self-financed the project and will take more than half of box receipts.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 30 Sep. 2023
• The fact that the Trumps could have easily self-financed the $30 million needed to launch, but chose against it, underscored why no one else wanted to either.
  — Chris Dobstaff, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
• Swift and her team self-financed the $15 million film, which has been playing in theaters from Thursday to Sunday for seven weekends.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2023
• The enterprise is being self-financed by the two brothers and their families without loans.
  — Gary Stern, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
• Scott is the wealthiest senator in office and has the ability to self-finance his campaign.
  — Carmen Sesin, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2024
• The filmmaker self-financed his own projects at Universal, and was known for his work with producer Jason Blum.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
• Michael Sheen is self-financing a new national theater in his native Wales.
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2025
• The film carries a $120 million budget, which was mostly self-financed by Coppola.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 28 Sep. 2024
• Francis Ford Coppola self-financed a movie the industry’s bean-counters don’t want.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
• The Burbank studio self-financed the transaction with cash on its balance sheet and did not use outside funding, Legendary said Monday.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
• Bigger businesses could find ways around these ceilings, or simply self-finance their projects; smaller ones and entrepreneurs were stuck.
  — Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• They are independently managed and self-financed and were not included in the court filing.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Begich self-financed his campaign from his personal wealth to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, primarily through loans.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
• Two years later, Tarsem self-financed the film’s release in partnership with Roadside Attractions.
  — Leila Jordan, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2024
• Its founder Will Dean, a former British counter-terrorism officer, was forced to self-finance the obstacle course after investors couldn’t wrap their heads around why anyone would pay to go through such torture.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 24 Mar. 2024
• The independent startup is being self-financed by its partners.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
• Segura wrote, self-financed and produced the pilot before selling it to Netflix, which is producing the full series later this year and releasing it in 2025.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
• During the PlayStation 2 era, most game publishers tended to be more self-financed, with a more direct relationship to their customers regarding where the money came from as the budgets were lower.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
• Coppola self-financed the $120 million experimental epic that has been ruminating in his mind for four decades.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Starring real-life lyricist and actress Chung Suet-ying the film was self-financed and picked up by Edko Films for international distribution.
  — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 16 Mar. 2025
• Such high-quality ingredients and top-tier culinary talent inevitably come at a cost – especially when owners choose to self-finance.
  — Lela London, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
• Still, the growth is entirely self-financed and independently owned by Nguyen, who left behind a career in finance to pursue her passion for hospitality.
  — Sara Rosenthal, Denver Post, 10 June 2025
• According to Collider, Trap’s $30 million production budget before prints and advertising was self-financed by Shyamalan, who also wrote the film.
  — Tim Lammers, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
• Parochial schools and individual parishes, which the archdiocese said are independently managed and self-financed, will not be affected.
  — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• Wells, who self-financed his campaign, cast himself as an independent candidate not beholden to a particular faction, while others viewed him as being aligned with Fernandez and Castro.
  — Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2025
• The company, which is independent and self-financed, has also committed $5 million to invest in other creators looking to build media companies, including Jarvis Johnson and Daniel Thrasher.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
• Steele’s path, build the audience, self-finance the growth, and then prove it in front of everyone is the norm, not the exception, for founders like her.
  — Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• Shreve had a lot more campaign cash than Brown, though much of Shreve's haul was self-financed.
  — Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 4 May 2026