How to Use collateral in a Sentence

collateral

1 of 2 noun

• The group has had to pledge more shares to India’s largest bank as collateral.
  — Adam Majendie, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
• As the price of government bonds crashed, the funds were asked to pony up billions of pounds in collateral.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023
• In that case, the city could end up owning the former Sears store, which was posted as collateral for the loan.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2022
• Start-up stock is used as a form of collateral for these cash advances.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• That means Trump would have a hard time dumping the stock or even pledging it as collateral.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
• Musk had planned to finance the takeover with three loans worth $46.5 billion, one of which used his shares in Tesla as collateral.
  — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022
• The assets of the company being acquired are then used as collateral for the loan.
  — Dallas News, 1 Dec. 2022
• The hedge fund put down the equivalent of $1.2 billion in crypto and other collateral as of last month.
  — Justin Baer, WSJ, 18 July 2022
• If the loser doesn’t pay up, the exchange still has to pay the winner, which is why exchanges require collateral.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2023
• If lenders were forced to impose haircuts on the value of that collateral, credit could dry up.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2023
• There’s no denying that there’s collateral, that the civilians died, but nobody knows how many.
  — ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• One such owner, who has about 30 tankers, said those accounts are seen as collateral for loans.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023
• BlockFi has argued that the Robinhood shares were pledged to it by Emergent as loan collateral.
  — Yueqi Yang, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2023
• The facility will allow banks to give the Fed their Treasury bonds as collateral for one-year loans.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 16 Mar. 2023
• The falling prices also reduced the value of FTT, which Alameda had used as collateral for some loans.
  — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• Higher prices mean energy firms have to put down more cash as collateral to back their trades.
  — Elena Mazneva, Bloomberg.com, 16 June 2022
• As courts filings have now revealed, many of these loans had required only a very small amount of collateral.
  — Muyao Shen, Fortune, 22 July 2022
• The collateral for such a large loan would be significant: The film rights to ten of Marvel’s characters.
  — Joanna Robinson, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2023
• Samyang went into survival mode, spending the next decade paying back its debts to the bank, which held the company’s shares as collateral.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• Secured debt is backed by collateral, meaning something of equal value to the debt is given in its place.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
• Banks are able to pledge a range of collateral to borrow short-term cash, typically overnight.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
• Even if the style doesn't suit the LW, the jewelry could be used as collateral, or sold at a latter date if there's a family emergency.
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• Bankman-Fried's parents used their home's equity as collateral for the bond.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2023
• Barnes sells guns, handles gun transfers as a licensed dealer and holds guns as collateral against pawn loans.
  — oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2022
• The chips are valuable enough that companies are using them as collateral for loans.
  — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 13 Nov. 2023
• Co-founders Thomas Cortese and Hisao Kushi have each pledged about 25% of their holdings as collateral for personal loans, according to the filing.
  — Sharon Terlep, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
• The reason was clear: Much of Mr. Trump’s wealth is tied up in the value of his real estate, which bond companies rarely accept as collateral.
  — William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• This is because in a mortgage, the home serves as collateral, which means the lender has the right to take possession of the home to recoup their losses if the borrower stops making payments on the loan.
  — Becca Stanek, The Week, 1 Dec. 2022
• The primary credit program is for healthy banks that can bring collateral to the Fed and get loans at a slight penalty to their overnight lending rate, known as the federal funds rate.
  — Hannah Levitt, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2023
• If the value of the stock decline, lenders can request additional collateral or for the loan to be repaid, and have the ability to seize and sell the shares if a borrower fails to do so.
  — Tom Maloney, Fortune, 2 May 2023

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collateral

2 of 2 adjective

• Will the Iraqi Kurds be a collateral victim of the war in Ukraine?
  — Bernard-Henri Lévy, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
• That said, the house will still be collateral that can be foreclosed if the loan payments stop.
  — Gary Singer, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Jan. 2022
• And there will be more loss — what some are calling collateral deaths.
  — CBS News, 26 Aug. 2021
• Again, this was a collateral effect of efforts to extend battery life in the iPhone.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2024
• In the meantime, the lender uses the car as collateral to secure the loan until the eventual payoff.
  — Ashley Donohoe, Car and Driver, 1 Sep. 2023
• The number of these collateral deaths could be as high as 4,000, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• On Tuesday, a 7-year-old girl sitting at home in her father’s lap was shot in the city of Mandalay, in what appeared to be a collateral death.
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• Mix in the collateral chatter on social media and the viewers who streamed the episode later and that's a lot of eyeballs -- and a lot of chances to sway perceptions.
  — Brandon Griggs, CNN, 22 Feb. 2021
• Speaking of Mandy, a lot of the film focuses on the family members of drummers, and the collateral effects of the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022
• An even greater cost could come in terms of the collateral consequences of the criminal indictment.
  — Barbara McQuade, Time, 2 July 2021
• Currently the case is scheduled for trial in May 2022, long after Monarch plans to auction off the collateral loan.
  — Dee Depass, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
• The collateral fun around the tournament didn’t happen in summer 2020.
  — al, 21 May 2021
• The judge — though skeptical — granted the collateral attack because the state could not refute her claim.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2022
• In the end, what emerges from the more than 5,400 pages of records is an institutional acceptance of an inevitable collateral toll.
  — New York Times, 18 Dec. 2021
• Where they are split is on how many collateral white people are acceptable.
  — al, 5 Dec. 2022
• Lehman took huge but carefully hidden risks and stretched its collateral wafer-thin.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
• Portia will be a collateral victim but fan-favorite Tanya will survive to bring her special brand of chaos to Season 3.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• Doing the math, that would mean that the collateral Celsius posted to Tether exceeded its loan balance by about 40%.
  — Peter Rudegeair, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2023
• Rising sea levels can endanger the value of an asset, such as a hotel, that is collateral for a loan.
  — Simon Clark, WSJ, 8 June 2021
• Banks use the client’s total assets to determine the credit line and typically lend as much as 50% of the collateral value.
  — Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
• But the proportion with a collateral claim was 14 per cent, ahead of the 9 per cent on average in the previous five years according to analysis from Moody’s.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 29 Dec. 2020
• The loans were unsecured, meaning there was no collateral backing them.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• All these things and more can be collateral for a loan secured by a UCC security interest.
  — Joshua Stein, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Joe Garcia, the husband of one of the teachers, had collapsed that morning from a heart attack — an early ripple of the collateral devastation that would be stirred by the massacre.
  — New York Times, 30 May 2022
• But collateral consequences of a conviction may be more significant to Trump, who is seeking a second term in the White House.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2022
• Leaders can still take a look at things like the collateral consequences to sentencing and start bridging the gap between the corrections system and moving on to a life devoid of crime.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
• Most efforts to build collateral values on former landscapes must grapple with this trade-off.
  — Todd Lookingbill, Quartz, 11 Nov. 2019
• Credit can be extended one year under the program and collateral guidelines are tighter.
  — Craig Torres, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023
• Grant Williams underwent surgery Friday to repair a tear of a radial collateral ligament in his left hand, the Celtics announced.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
• To be sure, collateral estoppel is designed to prevent the relitigation of essential facts.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 19 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024