How to Use claimant in a Sentence

claimant

noun

• They are claimants to the dead man's estate.
• Claimants will need to fill out the appropriate paperwork.
• Will Greg end up as a claimant to the dormant throne of Italy?
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
• The court and Equifax knew there were 147 million claimants.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
• There is no action that a claimant needs to take right now.
  — Tami Luhby, CNN, 3 July 2021
• The amount each claimant will receive will be based on how many file.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 16 June 2023
• Malaysia and Brunei are the other claimants to the chain of islands and barren islets and atolls.
  — Jim Gomez, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2018
• Among all claimants, the biggest group last year was Haitians (see chart).
  — The Economist, 12 May 2018
• To be eligible for CTC, a child must live with the claimant for at least 6 months of the year.
  — Elaine Maag, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• Thousands more were signed by only a lawyer, not a claimant.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2021
• That has strained ties with other claimant states such as Vietnam and the Philippines, as well as the U.S.
  — Andy Sharp, Bloomberg.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• New claimants must wait at least five weeks before the first chunk of cash lands in their account.
  — The Economist, 18 Oct. 2017
• That's an average of about $7,800 per claimant that was waived.
  — Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2022
• If the claim is not paid, the claimant is permitted to proceed with a lawsuit.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2022
• The first rule extends the amount of time a claimant can receive benefits to 26 weeks from 14 weeks.
  — Jason Schaumburg, Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2020
• Some of the Southern claimants to the First Thanksgiving have tried to reclaim that founding myth for the South.
  — Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
• The plan would need to get 75% of claimants to agree to it before a bankruptcy judge can approve it.
  — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 1 July 2024
• The plan would need to get 75% of claimants to agree to it before a bankruptcy judge can approve it.
  — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 1 May 2024
• If an action succeeds, claimants (if they are traced) get their awards in full.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• The answer to that question depends on when the court determines the claimants were harmed.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 2017
• But surely this car puts all previous claimants in the shade.
  — Tony Swan, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2019
• For the survivors, the settlements are for $5 million per claimant.
  — Christina Carrega, CNN, 28 Oct. 2021
• Many talc claimants oppose allowing a trustee to set awards and want to take their cases to court.
  — Jef Feeley, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
• That would then give the disallowed claimant appeal rights.
  — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• The claimants allege that the government and army failed to heed warning signs and threats that the shooter made in the months before the shootings.
  — Ivana Saric, Axios, 15 Oct. 2024
• But that email too often ends up in a claimant's spam folder, Boynton added.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2022
• But those funds are not being made available to claimants, Levin alleges.
  — John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2018
• To deny an exemption to claimants who engage in certain forms of speech is … the same as if the state were to fine them for this speech.
  — George Will, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2019
• There are fixes to this huge problem and one of them is that no one can collect more from another than the amount of insurance the claimant carries!
  — Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024
• Payments to the claimants was approved earlier this month, though the r/juul subreddit suggests payouts may have ramped up this week, as users claimed receiving anywhere from a couple hundred dollars to upwards of $9,000.
  — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Jan 2025