bad check
Example Sentences
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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
It exemplifies Peck’s finger-in-the-chest attitude, as if to say, you think this domestic scenario is bad, check out what real relationships are like.
From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2019
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
At Ticonderoga there had been a bad check; but the French had made nothing of it afterwards.
From A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical by Lucas, Charles Prestwood
