How to Use prize money in a Sentence

prize money

noun
  • The pool of prize money was set to grow for the Feb. 21 drawing.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Then the bulk of the prize money goes to the person who caught the largest white marlin.
    Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Somewhat unique to Chefs vs. Wild is the lack of prize money for the winner.
    Briana Riddock, Outside Online, 26 Sep. 2022
  • With no winner, the pool of prize money is set to grow for the Wednesday draw.
    Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2023
  • So the championship, along with $1,800 in prize money, went to Rawls.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Each of the winning golfers earned $1.242 million in prize money.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Now, the prize money may help the family’s goal of getting a new house.
    Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • With no winner, the pool of prize money is set to grow for the Saturday, Sept. 9, draw.
    Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
  • With no winner, the pool of prize money is set to grow for Wednesday night's draw.
    Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
  • There’s a lot of prize money to be doled out to this year’s New York City Marathon winners.
    Nadav Gavrielov, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Waiting at the end of it all: a trophy dubbed the NBA Cup and a pool of prize money worth around $18 million.
    Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Of those games, several of them were for prize money and 25 of them were live streamed.
    Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Her current focus is the prize money at the Women’s World Cup.
    Tariq Panja, New York Times, 24 July 2023
  • Once the prize money gets to the players, each team decides how to distribute it.
    Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The drawing for the prize money will be on Tuesday, which will be the 24th roll for it since the jackpot was last won on April 18 in New York.
    Alex Lo, NBC News, 8 July 2023
  • The bulk of the sport’s 1,300 tournaments are far-flung and offer little prize money.
    Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Many people are focusing on the prize money, but the money is just like the cherry on top of the milkshake.
    Stephanie Tharpe, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • This year in Qatar, however, the men’s prize money tops $440 million.
    Amy Bass, CNN, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The prize money pales in comparison to the average $9.1 million purse on the PGA tour.
    Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Rahm has long been a staunch supporter of the PGA Tour but freely admits changes to the schedule and the prize money came about because of the breakaway league.
    Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The China Open was second in prize money only to the World Championship.
    Amy Gunia, Time, 7 Oct. 2022
  • For authors, the prize money ultimately doesn’t matter as much as the uptick in book sales post-award.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 Oct. 2022
  • In many cases, jackpot slots have life-changing amounts of prize money.
    Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Indeed, all three women were unanimous with their pick of Stephenie as the Snake, and shared in the prize money as a result.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2022
  • She's won over $8 million in prize money over her career and is looking to go on a deep run at this year's Australian Open.
    Town & Country, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The men and women will also pool the prize money from both the men's and women's World Cups and divide it at 45% each, with a 10% cut for the federation.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Today, all four Grand Slams offer equal prize money to women and men.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 19 Oct. 2023
  • But only some of them: Half of the $15 million prize money is awarded to the eventual winner and runner-up.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The prize money would also help her chip away at the aforementioned medical debt.
    Rebecca Turkewitz, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2022
  • That said, Wezzie plans to put most of the prize money aside in hopes of a better future for himself and his loved ones, according to the Maryland Lottery.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2022

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