bad check
Example Sentences
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Like the protagonist of “Attic” — a working-class college dropout named “K Dunn” — she had a felony conviction for passing a bad check.
From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2022
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
I went directly to the Lorraine and began frankly by telling them that I represented the By- Products Company in New York and was authorised to investigate the bad check which they had received.
From The Poisoned Pen by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
