How to Use debtor in a Sentence

debtor

noun

• The debtor agrees to pay the debt over a three-year period.
• Rahim, the poor debtor, becomes a hero, but not for long.
  — Ana Maria Bahiana, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2022
• In New York, plaintiffs can take up to a tenth of a debtor’s pay.
  — Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 8 June 2020
• First, has the debtor made a good-faith effort to repay the loans?
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2020
• When the money ran out, she was briefly placed in debtor’s prison.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2024
• In Egypt, a debtor pledged their repayment on the dead body of a loved one.
  — Kristin Collier, Longreads, 1 Dec. 2021
• Stauffer had been able to strike a deal with a handful of debtors.
  — Anjali Tsui, ProPublica, 3 Dec. 2019
• The form must be authorized by the debtor to be lawful.
  — Molly Stellino, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2022
• He was presumed guilty by the FTX debtor estate and its lawyers.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2024
• What would be the effect on the credit history of the debtor?
  — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2021
• The trustee is not supposed to have any ties to the attorneys or to the debtor or to the creditors.
  — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 19 June 2019
• Banks use these covenants to protect against the risk of the debtor's inability to pay down the debt.
  — John Shufeldt, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• Many of these debtors despair of ever paying the huge sums back.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2019
• Most indulged in fine living; many were debtors rather than savers.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• These agencies will then try and collect the face-value amount from the debtor and pocket the profit.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• There was a time in America when debtors were jailed for not paying their debts.
  — Audrey Dutton and Scott Berson, idahostatesman, 16 Mar. 2018
• The biggest debtor in Europe would be too big to bail out, so Grexit might lead to Italexit and the break-up of the euro.
  — The Economist, 31 May 2018
• Anytime a debtor can obtain more financing on the front end, that’s a good thing.
  — Kristin Larson, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2019
• Yet his father fell on hard times, went to debtor's prison when Lee was 2 years old and later fled for the West Indies.
  — NOLA.com, 18 May 2017
• Rather than holding on to the debt, the group forgives it, freeing debtors from their obligations.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
• Court filings from June 29 show that nearly all the schools being shut down are listed as debtors in that case.
  — Dawn Rhodes, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2018
• When reached again on Wednesday, the spokesperson for the FTX debtors declined to comment further on the matter.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 4 Aug. 2023
• The debtor in question: Donald Trump, the future president of the United States.
  — Luke Harding, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2017
• State regulations also set limits on calls to a debtor’s workplace and the time of day the calls can be made.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• Jia was named to a national blacklist of debtors, and some of his assets were frozen by Chinese courts.
  — Sean O'Kane, The Verge, 26 June 2018
• So far, the debtors have rebuffed all offers, which have been extended four times with the latest due date now May 12.
  — Ed Christman, Billboard, 4 May 2017
• And debtors remained at the mercy of rising interest rates that swelled the size of debt payments in a heartbeat.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 18 June 2023
• Debt, History of From debtors' prison to student loan debt, six stories from the archive.
  — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
• Roundup Debt, History of From debtors' prison to student loan debt, six stories from the archive.
  — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
• Suppose that a creditor serves a notice of lien on a bank for the debtor's accounts, but before the bank honors the levy, the debtor transfers the money to yet another bank to repay a loan.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024