Sentences with bill
bill
B b - They couldn't afford to pay the bills.
- Are you going to bill me for this? [VERB noun + for]
- In AM, use check
- ...a large quantity of U.S. dollar bills.
- This is the toughest crime bill that Congress has passed in a decade.
- She was billed to play the Red Queen in Snow White. [be VERB-ed to-infinitive]
- They bill it as Britain's most exciting museum. [VERB noun + as]
- An electricity bill
- Who's on the bill tonight?
- The play is billed for next week
- Portland Bill
- The company could no longer afford to pay their bills.The group acquires companies and pays the takeover bill by selling the target's assets.A bill is a request for payment by a seller for goods or services provided.
- Are you going to bill me for this?The company deliberately billed us for storage of items that have been out of the company's hands for up to three months.If you bill someone for goods or services, you send them a bill stating how much money they owe you.
- The store will bill me.
- To bill goods.
- A new actor was billed for this week.
- The management billed the play for two weeks.
- My sister and her boyfriend were billing and cooing on the front porch.
- [ …] The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the seeds and then wipe their bills on twigs – leading to the seeds' getting glued to the tree, where they can germinate and begin the cycle anew.
- David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.