bad check
Example Sentences
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Another farmer said he received a bad check from the same checking account on the same night for two German shepherd puppies.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023
Spina wrote the bad check, and T.J. handed over his Super Bowl ring, still inside its black box, along with rings from his college football years.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2022
Instead of honoring the promises in the Constitution, King said “America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2021
Mr. Rubino was convicted in 1999 of writing a bad check, prosecutors said, a felony that makes his possession of any firearm illegal.
From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2019
"No … I let a bad check get out… You know—no funds."
From Broken to the Plow by Dobie, Charles Caldwell
