How to Use underwrite in a Sentence

underwrite

verb

• The only viable way to underwrite that is through a stress-test.
  — Richard Parker, Forbes, 24 July 2022
• But this trade is underwriting deadly crises around the world.
  — Sasha Lezhnev, Foreign Affairs, 19 May 2025
• The deals that hold up are the ones underwritten forward rather than backward.
  — Tony Julianelle, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• The rest was underwritten by donors, with some of the work done by volunteers.
  — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Sep. 2025
• There’s no product to scale, no customers to name, no traction to underwrite.
  — Renana Ashkenazi, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• That will leave less to be used to underwrite the dozens of Olympic sports that aren't self-sustaining.
  — Eddie Pells, Star Tribune, 6 Apr. 2021
• State and local tax breaks worth $80 million helped underwrite the project.
  — Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com, 25 May 2017
• The money would be used to underwrite the tuition for those who need the program but can’t afford it.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2022
• As part of this deal, insurers have agreed to underwrite more policies in fire-prone areas.
  — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 23 Jan. 2025
• American drug consumers underwrite new drug research for the rest of the world.
  — WSJ, 17 Nov. 2021
• Investors must underwrite belief as much as balance sheets.
  — Sasirekha Subramanian, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• How much revenue, as well as how much the initial reforms will cost, and who will underwrite them, aren’t in the report.
  — Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
• Many feared that this would leave the sport bereft of crucial funds—but then global banks stepped in to underwrite F1.
  — Nick Scott, Robb Report, 3 June 2023
• Berman’s frankness was no doubt based, in part, on the fact that Lazard is no longer in the business of underwriting stocks.
  — William D. Cohan, The Hive, 2 Apr. 2018
• Nanduri said Intel is helping underwrite the cost of the Travis show.
  — Ryan Suppe, USA TODAY, 3 July 2018
• The bank is slated to underwrite almost $1 billion of bonds for a state water board later this month.
  — Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2022
• This makeover, too, was underwritten by a high-end Italian brand, in this case Bulgari.
  — Lilit Marcus, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Jan. 2017
• The same advantages underwrote the rise of the biggest dinosaurs as well as more recent giants like the sloths and mastodons.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2025
• The entire cost of the trip is underwritten by private donations, so veterans do not have to pay any of the cost.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
• Forcing teams to pay for new parts and pieces, let alone the development of a whole new car, is not an expense teams are prepared to underwrite.
  — Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
• Working on the project, more than 30 volunteers came out in support to underwrite the labor costs.
  — Gary Curreri, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Apr. 2021
• The state police have other options to get taxpayer dollars to underwrite the work, which has already been done.
  — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
• To make matters worse, your tax dollars or license fees will be used to underwrite the launch of this protectionist system.
  — Doug McCauley, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
• Each request must be underwritten separately, even if the tenant has been approved in the past.
  — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 3 May 2026
• Her name is on texts recording the opening of mines and quarries, whose wealth would underwrite the achievements of the 18th dynasty.
  — National Geographic, 7 Mar. 2019
• The bet underwriting those marks is that durable value in AI accrues to the model layer.
  — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
• But no matter what the audience’s response, the Playhouse has two sources of funding that help underwrite new work.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• Cetin stresses that Allianz X still underwrites the deal like a classic venture investor.
  — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2026
• That buffer will be crucial, as market spreads have widened by about 50 basis points since the debt was underwritten, the people said.
  — Claire Ruckin, Bloomberg, 5 Mar. 2026
• The Fed, lacking the bandwidth to underwrite thousands of loans, relied on banks to make the Main Street loans.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2021