How to Use default in a Sentence

default

1 of 2 noun

• The defendant has made no appearance in the case and is in default.
• You can enter your own settings or use the defaults.
• Which font is the default in that computer program?
• In fact, passkeys are opt-in and turned off by default.
  — Marco Marcelline, PCMAG, 6 June 2023
• But most of my tests were with the default 12-megapixel mode.
  — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 19 July 2023
• The look harkened back to a time when midnight blue, not black, was the default for men’s evening wear.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2023
• With the settlement, that rate will no longer be the default.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• Hide your friends list This may be one of the app’s sneakiest defaults.
  — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
• The specter of a debt default is no longer unthinkable.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• That means the nation is one step closer to dodging a default.
  — Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• One result is very low default rates – less than 5% in Nigeria.
  — Christine Ro, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• The video ads will be muted by default on all devices except in-car tablets and will run for up to 90 seconds.
  — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 16 June 2023
• By default, Drummond said, anyone who typed in that search bar and hit enter would do a search on MSN.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2023
• It is rooted in the principle of protecting life and health as a default.
  — Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
• By default, this is encrypted when sent to Zoom, but Zoom can decrypt it.
  — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
• His expression is somber by default, but his laugh reveals the little boy who lives on in my mind.
  — Emefa Addo Agawu, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
• The problem, until now, has been that these Reactions are on by default.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• With interest rates rising more than 5 percentage points in the past two years, that’s a recipe for defaults.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2024
• By default, swim teams, water polo teams and swim lessons also ceased.
  — Emma Fox, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2023
• While white and off-white have long felt like the default menu colors, some restaurants are setting themselves apart by adding pops of neon and bright patterns.
  — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• But those who were in default need to take certain steps to do so — and complete them before next September to keep their loans out of default for the long term, The Times said.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
• Pichai testified about the development of Google’s Chrome, the world’s leading web browser, which has Google search set as the default.
  — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• In terms of what’s changed, there are now more Republicans who think a default would be either no big deal or even preferable to the status quo.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
• Starting in January 2024, the payments went into default, which allowed the city, as the lender, to demand that the financing be paid in full.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
• The companies have had a partnership since 2002 that makes Google the default search engine in Apple’s Safari.
  — Leah Nylen, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
• And Jews, history’s default scapegoat, are the reason for this sorry state of affairs.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• For example, autoplay is turned off as a default in YouTube Kids.
  — Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR, 29 Mar. 2024
• Country Garden, China’s biggest homebuilder as of just a few months ago, continues to teeter on the brink of default.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
• China’s quandary: Bail out debt-laden cities, or risk disruptive defaults?
  — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• The settlement would do away with a 6 percent sales commission as a default, a longtime fixture of home sales.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024

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default

2 of 2 verb

• If the borrower defaults, the bank can take the house.
• The program defaults to a standard font.
• Fitch expects a large chunk of the $61 billion of top-concern loans to default by the end of the year.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2023
• Biden and McCarthy agree that the nation cannot default on its debt.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2023
• Some landlords will default — leaving the banks holding the bag.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
• The ruble plunged against the dollar and Russia defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time since 1918.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
• In 2021 Evergrande was among the first, and the most prominent, to default on a tower of unpaid bills.
  — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Teenage girls always default to chicken strips and French fries.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
• Without action by Congress, the nation could default on its debt as soon as six weeks from now.
  — John Wagner, Anchorage Daily News, 1 May 2023
• Unlike some vehicles that default back to front-wheel drive every time the engine starts, a button can set the 2025 Equinox to start in AWD.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 23 Jan. 2024
• If Democrats and Republicans cannot agree to raise the debt limit, the government will default.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner, 20 Apr. 2023
• Even with the biggest loans of all the Utah schools, only 1.5% of Westminster students defaulted.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
• The government would default on its debt if Treasury stopped paying all bills.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 2 May 2023
• The clash of the political parties brought the country within hours of defaulting on its debt a little more than a month ago.
  — USA TODAY, 1 July 2023
• The program would also apply to borrowers at high risk of defaulting on their loans in two years.
  — Sara Dorn, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Adding to the uncertainty: The federal government is on the brink of defaulting on its debt.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• Chavez cautions parents not to default to lecture mode.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 10 Jan. 2024
• Many borrowers are unable to make their monthly payments, and some may even default on their loans.
  — Juan Carlos Medina, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The company defaulted on its dollar debt in late 2021, and has since embarked on a long process to restructure its debt.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
• Over the summer, squabbling between the two parties nearly led to the US defaulting on its debt for the first time since the nation was founded almost 250 years ago.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
• In 2014, the government says, the Adell Estate defaulted on its deferred estate tax.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2023
• The Senate passed a bipartisan bill to suspend the debt ceiling Thursday night in a vote that all but ensures the nation will not default on its debt.
  — Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2023
• But that means office property owners could be more likely to default on their debt.
  — Byalena Botros, Fortune, 26 June 2023
• The government already hit the debt ceiling in January, and Yellen has previously warned the U.S. could default on its debt by the summer if the cap isn’t raised.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• His comments came as both Democrats and Republicans work to try and pass a fiscal package to raise the debt ceiling and avoid defaulting on the nation's debts.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 16 Feb. 2023
• This helps reduce the risk of borrowers defaulting on their loans, leading to a housing market crash.
  — Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2023
• But these efforts haven’t stopped it from defaulting to cartoonish tropes.
  — Szu Yu Chen, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• Treasuries are perceived globally as one of the world’s most risk-free, if not the most risk-free, assets — and the United States nearly defaulting on debt has done little to change that.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 11 June 2023
• The lawsuit comes just weeks before the government could default on the federal debt if Congress fails to raise the borrowing limit.
  — Christopher Rugaber and Fatima Hussein, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2023
• But would those companies be great credit risks if the U.S. government defaulted on its debt?
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024