How to Use self-finance in a Sentence

self-finance

verb
  • Gibson’s gamble to produce and self-finance the movie clearly paid off.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Talk to me about the decision to self-finance, produce and then license the special.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The enterprise is being self-financed by the two brothers and their families without loans.
    — Gary Stern, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Michael Sheen is self-financing a new national theater in his native Wales.
    — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Bigger businesses could find ways around these ceilings, or simply self-finance their projects; smaller ones and entrepreneurs were stuck.
    — Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Steele’s path, build the audience, self-finance the growth, and then prove it in front of everyone is the norm, not the exception, for founders like her.
    — Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Scott is the wealthiest senator in office and has the ability to self-finance his campaign.
    — Carmen Sesin, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The independent startup is being self-financed by its partners.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
  • They are independently managed and self-financed and were not included in the court filing.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Francis Ford Coppola self-financed a movie the industry’s bean-counters don’t want.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
  • All of these upgrades were self-financed as the company acted because worker wellbeing and long-term resilience made business sense.
    — Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The team opted to self-finance the initial development, a process that took approximately two and a half years from concept to consumer launch.
    — Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Ford is self-financing the film and plans to find a buyer after production is complete, according to Deadline, which broke the news of the project.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The film carries a $120 million budget, which was mostly self-financed by Coppola.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Stuart noted that the project is self-financed by the fiscally-responsible company.
    — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The filmmaker self-financed his own projects at Universal, and was known for his work with producer Jason Blum.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
  • For example, Theo Von and David Spade wrote and self-financed a buddy comedy starring the two of them.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Such high-quality ingredients and top-tier culinary talent inevitably come at a cost – especially when owners choose to self-finance.
    — Lela London, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The fact that the Trumps could have easily self-financed the $30 million needed to launch, but chose against it, underscored why no one else wanted to either.
    — Chris Dobstaff, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The campaign of Trone, the wealthy co-founder of the Total Wine & More retail chain, is almost entirely self-financed.
    — Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Two years later, Tarsem self-financed the film’s release in partnership with Roadside Attractions.
    — Leila Jordan, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Parochial schools and individual parishes, which the archdiocese said are independently managed and self-financed, will not be affected.
    — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Still, the growth is entirely self-financed and independently owned by Nguyen, who left behind a career in finance to pursue her passion for hospitality.
    — Sara Rosenthal, Denver Post, 10 June 2025
  • While large firms can self-finance AI adoption, smaller firms may struggle to secure necessary capital with restrictions on outside investment.
    — Joseph Andrew, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • As for financing, Ford had been talking to several studios but ultimately decided to self-finance the film and shoot on his own terms, with plans to take it out to market after production has ended.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The report claims Cherfilus-McCormick first won a special election in 2022 with a campaign that presented itself as self-financed.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 Mar. 2026
  • It should be noted that taxpayers’ dollars are not involved with the cost of the renovations because the Fed is self-financed, supporting itself on income from its holdings of Treasury bonds.
    — Steve Weisman, Forbes.com, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Segura wrote, self-financed and produced the pilot before selling it to Netflix, which is producing the full series later this year and releasing it in 2025.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Its founder Will Dean, a former British counter-terrorism officer, was forced to self-finance the obstacle course after investors couldn’t wrap their heads around why anyone would pay to go through such torture.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Starring real-life lyricist and actress Chung Suet-ying the film was self-financed and picked up by Edko Films for international distribution.
    — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 16 Mar. 2025

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