How to Use collateral in a Sentence

collateral

1 of 2 noun

• Start-up stock is used as a form of collateral for these cash advances.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• Your collateral must echo that shift.
  — Marie Holive, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• Ali sees his lovers as the human collateral of the damage caused by adults who have lost the plot.
  — Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 20 May 2026
• Others are choosing to keep the rights to the claims, but use them as collateral for loans.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
• That's a gamble with your life as collateral.
  — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
• The group has had to pledge more shares to India’s largest bank as collateral.
  — Adam Majendie, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
• Bayston noted that these clients want to post collateral that earns income, not sit idle.
  — Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• Very often these things are being used as collateral in deals that have nothing to do with art.
  — Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
• Higher prices mean energy firms have to put down more cash as collateral to back their trades.
  — Elena Mazneva, Bloomberg.com, 16 June 2022
• You may also be required to put up some collateral to secure the loan.
  — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 31 May 2026
• That means Trump would have a hard time dumping the stock or even pledging it as collateral.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
• As the price of government bonds crashed, the funds were asked to pony up billions of pounds in collateral.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023
• Once wheels are registered and aging, they can be pledged as collateral.
  — Antonia Mortensen, CNN Money, 2 May 2026
• There’s no denying that there’s collateral, that the civilians died, but nobody knows how many.
  — ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• One such owner, who has about 30 tankers, said those accounts are seen as collateral for loans.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023
• Unlike a credit card, your lender uses your home as collateral.
  — Jeff Lazerson, Oc Register, 14 May 2026
• If lenders were forced to impose haircuts on the value of that collateral, credit could dry up.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2023
• As courts filings have now revealed, many of these loans had required only a very small amount of collateral.
  — Muyao Shen, Fortune, 22 July 2022
• They’re used by cheese producers as collateral to secure bank loans.
  — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 2 May 2026
• Citgo equity had been used as collateral for the bonds.
  — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
• Barnes sells guns, handles gun transfers as a licensed dealer and holds guns as collateral against pawn loans.
  — oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2022
• Banks are able to pledge a range of collateral to borrow short-term cash, typically overnight.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
• The chips are valuable enough that companies are using them as collateral for loans.
  — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 13 Nov. 2023
• Such is the cheese’s worth that the bank also permits the wheels of cheese to be used by producers as collateral against loans.
  — Olivia Potts, Longreads, 28 May 2026
• Title lenders provide quick cash in exchange for a car title as collateral.
  — Joel Jacobs, ProPublica, 13 July 2023
• But in reality, these loans were in default and couldn’t be used as collateral.
  — Samuel O'Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Jan. 2026
• If collateral does not exist, AI has no knowledge base to draw from.
  — Manu Khetan, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• In that case, the city could end up owning the former Sears store, which was posted as collateral for the loan.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2022
• Cash in a business savings account can also be used as collateral.
  — Phil Dushey, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
• Secured debt is backed by collateral, meaning something of equal value to the debt is given in its place.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024

collateral

2 of 2 adjective

• And there will be more loss — what some are calling collateral deaths.
  — CBS News, 26 Aug. 2021
• That said, the house will still be collateral that can be foreclosed if the loan payments stop.
  — Gary Singer, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Jan. 2022
• But there are also many collateral goals.
  — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 23 May 2026
• Where they are split is on how many collateral white people are acceptable.
  — al, 5 Dec. 2022
• Lehman took huge but carefully hidden risks and stretched its collateral wafer-thin.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
• Will the Iraqi Kurds be a collateral victim of the war in Ukraine?
  — Bernard-Henri Lévy, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
• Skin is this baby’s main playing field, but there are collateral benefits.
  — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 3 Feb. 2026
• Again, this was a collateral effect of efforts to extend battery life in the iPhone.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2024
• Most efforts to build collateral values on former landscapes must grapple with this trade-off.
  — Todd Lookingbill, Quartz, 11 Nov. 2019
• The loans were unsecured, meaning there was no collateral backing them.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• If private credit portfolios sour, this puts the collateral banks are lending against at risk.
  — Katanga Johnson, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026
• That sent yields even higher, sparking another wave of collateral calls.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
• An even greater cost could come in terms of the collateral consequences of the criminal indictment.
  — Barbara McQuade, Time, 2 July 2021
• Rising sea levels can endanger the value of an asset, such as a hotel, that is collateral for a loan.
  — Simon Clark, WSJ, 8 June 2021
• So some of those collateral arrests are warrantless.
  — CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
• This all matters because there are collateral consequences to being a felon.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2021
• In the meantime, the lender uses the car as collateral to secure the loan until the eventual payoff.
  — Ashley Donohoe, Car and Driver, 1 Sep. 2023
• The judge — though skeptical — granted the collateral attack because the state could not refute her claim.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2022
• The collateral agent — whose entire job is ensuring that what’s supposed to be in the box was actually in the box — has sued.
  — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2025
• Credit can be extended one year under the program and collateral guidelines are tighter.
  — Craig Torres, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023
• Israel is going to go to great lengths to avoid collateral civilian casualties.
  — CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
• Three Tests saw three half-centuries scored and Pope, the man who had been in possession, looked set to become collateral.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
• Even diligent collateral checks aren’t foolproof, and determined fraudsters will succeed for a while.
  — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2025
• Borrowers won’t have to show their ability to repay, and there will be no collateral requirements.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 29 Mar. 2020
• When these terms are live data, banks can track collateral thresholds, covenants and borrower obligations in real time.
  — Krupesh Bhat, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
• Today, your focus is on the collateral exhibitions dotted around the city.
  — Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN, 14 May 2022
• There are no credit checks, no income requirements and no collateral obligations.
  — Forbes Business Council, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026
• Mix in the collateral chatter on social media and the viewers who streamed the episode later and that's a lot of eyeballs -- and a lot of chances to sway perceptions.
  — Brandon Griggs, CNN, 22 Feb. 2021
• After all, small buildings such as garden sheds and playhouses aren’t collateral for a 30-year mortgage.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• It can also be seen in people who have collateral circulation, when the body has made or enlarged existing blood vessels to get around a blockage.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2023