foot the bill
Example Sentences
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In the latest sign of a tightening supply bottleneck that has sent memory prices skyrocketing, customers are offering to foot the bill for greater production capacity.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
But the consumers who had to foot the bill for the higher costs?
From Slate • Apr. 22, 2026
They say oil and gas companies still need to be held to account, so that the same communities that were subjected to decades of pollution won’t have to foot the bill for expensive cleanups.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
Lee, who has a voluminous head of hair, asked the country’s health minister whether the state-run healthcare plan could foot the bill for hair-loss treatment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026
He had decided to assemble a research team and explore the area in more detail the next year, and persuaded the National Geographic Society to foot the bill.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
