insufficient funds

Example Sentences

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When flooding happens or the crop fails, insufficient funds exist to pay claims.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

According to the booking report, Morris was picked up at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport for the felony of writing a check with insufficient funds.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2025

Not because of insufficient funds but because an automated system flagged the transaction as “unusual.”

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2024

But the board heard that the book-buying budget for 2023/24 was "an allocation of £0.26m which would result in insufficient funds to purchase books for the library service during 2023/24".

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2023

Ninety-three other cities and towns are now entitled to this service under the law, but it has not been accorded them on account of insufficient funds to meet the expenses of its establishment.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Cleveland, Grover