How to Use promissory note in a Sentence

promissory note

noun
  • Of the total, a quarter will come in the form of a promissory note payable in cash after two years.
    Polina Marinova, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The original promissory note and deed of trust are given to the lender.
    Dallas News, 5 June 2022
  • There was no word on what kind of promissory notes banks should be using.
    oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2020
  • The bank also received a $10 million promissory note from the debtors, which had 18 months to pay it.
    Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The government wants to seize the promissory note and deed of trust related to the agreement.
    Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The remaining $150 million is a promissory note with the first payment due in three years.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Your written obligation to pay the lender is called a promissory note.
    Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Mortgage documents: Keep the promissory note, deed of trust, proof of title insurance for the life of the loan.
    Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The bank’s promissory note is for roughly $4.7 million.
    Madison Iszler, ExpressNews.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Today, all of the outstanding promissory notes are long past due.
    Jmanning, oregonlive, 30 June 2023
  • In some cases, the SEC alleges, Christiansen convinced people to sell their homes and invest the proceeds in the promissory notes.
    Jmanning, oregonlive, 30 June 2023
  • Passengers will be asked to sign a promissory note for the cost of the flight, which is expected to be many times the price of a commercial flight from China to the U.S., this person said.
    Liza Lin, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2020
  • In order to board, citizens must sign a promissory note to repay.
    Melissa Yeager, azcentral, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Your bank would never lend you money without a promissory note.
    Dallas News, 7 June 2020
  • Cuggino put down some money and issued a promissory note for the balance.
    William Baldwin, Forbes, 19 June 2021
  • But signing a promissory note means your payments are picked up by credit bureaus.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2017
  • On June 8, his mother’s lawsuit said, Louis Angelos sold the firm to himself with a promissory note for a price to be determined later.
    Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Those boarding the flights signed a promissory note to reimburse the federal government for $1,485 at a later date.
    Curtis Tate, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Such bonuses usually come in the form of promissory notes, or loans that are forgivable after about seven years.
    Lisa Beilfuss, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
  • When the company presented a 2018 notarized promissory note signed by Lisa Marie, Keough again fired back, calling it a forgery.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 22 May 2024
  • The car is partly financed by a 1 billion-euro ($1.1 billion) green Schuldschein promissory note, the first for a carmaker.
    Christoph Rauwald, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Besides the promissory note, the company paid $1 million.
    Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 8 Dec. 2019
  • The Monday filing said that Trump Media has a number of outstanding promissory notes worth millions of dollars that are scheduled to come due within the next year.
    Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Though they were offered promissory notes from the city authorities, the farmers thought such payment worthless.
    Nan Randall, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Before boarding the flight in Morocco, passengers will have to sign a promissory note for the airfare promising to reimburse the government for the flight.
    Tariro Mzezewa, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2020
  • During your retirement, the trustee supplements your retirement cash flow needs by making payments on the promissory note to you.
    Andrew Martin, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • So, no, the math doesn’t feel quite right, with the Heat essentially extending a promissory note to the second-year shooting specialist for something that doesn’t quite exist at the moment.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2024
  • In a revised plan submitted barely two weeks ago, the BSA offered to issue an $80 million unsecured promissory note to a trust fund for abuse victims.
    CBS News, 2 July 2021
  • Its Schuldschein borrowings, a type of German promissory note, in sterling, dollars and euros run through 2022.
    Bloomberg.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • The same remains true today, as pro-life Americans labor to vindicate that promissory note for all people, born and unborn.
    Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 17 Jan. 2022

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