coffer

Example Sentences

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Yiu is the best-funded candidate in the race, with more than $1 million in her coffer — much of which came from her own pocket, according to California secretary of state records.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024

“It became apparent during lockdown when I was adding songs to my coffer of tunes, that I was writing about something,” she recalled in a late-February phone interview.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2022

When Sara “Future Opponent” Gideon won the Democratic primary in July 2020, the coffer was up to $4.1 million, most of which went to Gideon’s campaign.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2020

That’s because DoorDash uses my tip money—money I think I’m giving to the delivery person directly—to cover the worker’s base pay, thereby reducing what DoorDash has to pay out of its own coffer.

From Slate • Jul. 23, 2019

The Queen opened the coffer in the darkness and stood near the moonlit patch from the window, holding a strip of something in her hands.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White