How to Use liquidate in a Sentence

liquidate

verb
  • The owners were ordered to liquidate.
  • The owners were ordered to liquidate the company and pay their creditors.
  • The film is about a professional killer who's hired to liquidate a powerful businessman.
  • The company is liquidating its assets.
  • New lenders could keep Town Center open, or try to liquidate the mall’s assets and close it.
    Andy Peters, ajc, 28 Jan. 2021
  • The bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate their holdings.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 15 Mar. 2021
  • An estate sale is a way to liquidate the belongings of a household when a certain life event warrants it.
    Elizabeth W. Cook, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Cleveland and Detroit are willing to liquidate portions of their rosters.
    Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2021
  • News was spreading that the Nazis, who had forced the city’s Jews into the ghetto a year earlier, were planning to liquidate it.
    New York Times, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The Chapter 7 filing signals an intent to liquidate the business while under court protection.
    Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The rate at which Bitcoin long leveraged positions – bets that the price would go up – were forced to liquidate during one record-setting hour on March 15.
    Jen Wieczner, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2021
  • See ya next week to watch Jen ask her mom to liquidate that 401(k) in the pursuit of freedom!
    Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Arte Moreno is indicted by the feds, is forced to liquidate the Angels to stay out of prison, and as a result Shohei goes to the Dodgers.
    Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In a good portion of the cases, their hope is to one day liquidate the business and live off that pool of capital for the rest of their lives.
    Bill Keen, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • When prices went down instead, their brokers called in their loans, and the traders were forced to liquidate assets to come up with the cash to repay those loans.
    The Motley Fool, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2022
  • And both could be forced to liquidate assets to come up with the cash to pay the IRS, eroding their alignment with shareholders.
    The Editors, National Review, 28 Oct. 2021
  • In the case of Twitter, the acquirer, Musk, has to liquidate part of his huge Tesla holdings to pay for the deal (the rest will come from a consortium of banks).
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The company was forced to liquidate and sell its assets.
    Erin Griffith, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
  • To pass the climate stress tests, banks would have to liquidate fossil-fuel assets.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
  • In 2020, the man died and a Utah accounting firm trying to liquidate the property sought an appraisal for the painting.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2024
  • As the older members of the group liquidate their collections, Lopez has taken much of it to display in her basement.
    Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The shareholders have enormous incentive to approve the deal because if the merger fails, the blank-check firm would be forced to liquidate.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In the absence of a last-minute buyer, the company will be fully liquidated.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the two, has since liquidated her holdings.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The firm says crude stocks tend to decline at the end of the year as oil companies liquidate year-end inventories for tax purposes.
    WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Only then does the government actually own the assets, and have the power to liquidate them.
    New York Times, 8 May 2022
  • Opening a new account only to liquidate it and close it as soon as possible is a huge waste of everyone’s time.
    Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2021
  • Other routes include liquidating the shoes through discount stores or selling them off by the pound.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2023
  • With different visions of business, the family was able to liquidate the Chinese fund’s stake in the company and move forward with a fortified strategy.
    Sofia Celeste, WWD, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Then Giuliani filed on July 1 a motion to liquidate his assets, giving control to an independent trustee.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 12 July 2024

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