How to Use debt in a Sentence

debt

noun

• I am deep in debt.
• The company has run up huge debts.
• He's been working three jobs in an attempt to get out of debt.
• Their debts are piling up.
• She went into debt to pay for college.
• I'm thousands of dollars in debt.
• He is trying to pay off gambling debts.
• I'm worried that we will fall into debt.
• The company was in debt but is now turning a profit.
• By the time Heidi died in April 2010, the couple was deeply in debt.
  — Jamie Yuccas, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2023
• The next day, Ohtani said, Mizuhara told the agent the ballplayer had paid the interpreter’s debt.
  — Paul Pringle, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• The courts had been in the process of seizing Acree’s home for the past year over a large debt of unpaid taxes.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
• Joe Biden’s entire agenda on the debt ceiling was to raise it.
  — The Editors, National Review, 8 June 2023
• His idea of debt relief for poor countries was about the future.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2023
• Those debts far exceed the likely value of the property if the bank forced a sale.
  — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 8 Feb. 2024
• This comes as Zaslav tries to pare down the company’s debt.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023
• Two years dragged on and became four, turning a pile of tech debt into a mountain.
  — John Kell, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024
• If the property is sold, the proceeds of the sale would be used to satisfy DLR’s unpaid debt.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
• The new plan comes at a crucial moment for the 43 million people with student debt.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 15 June 2023
• For those looking to get out of credit card debt, see if a balance transfer is right for you.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
• In fact, other options may be more cost effective in the long run (and get you out of debt sooner).
  — Aly J. Yale, wsj.com, 26 Oct. 2023
• These borrowers were lied to, ripped off, and saddled with mountains of debt.
  — Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner, 25 July 2023
• Around 60 percent of low-income countries are in or at high risk of debt distress.
  — Mark Malloch-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2024
• And low- and middle-income households are feeling the strains of record credit card debt.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
• The red states that brought that case cited the harm suffered by a Missouri student loan agency from the debt relief.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• To that end, the Hollywood majors have trimmed content budgets and looked to pay down debt to boost their growth prospects.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2023
• Indeed, even many of the shoppers turning to BNPL out of a healthy fear of credit card debt are struggling with it all the same.
  — Christine Romans, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• Some African states spend more on debt interest than on public health.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2023
• And even as households run up credit card bills, the share that have debt in collection is at a historic low.
  — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• Yet her mother is still paying down student debt of her own.
  — Ron Lieber, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024