How to Use collateralize in a Sentence

collateralize

verb

• Additionally, pawn shops hold large amounts of gold, and many loans are collateralized by gold jewelry.
  — Itzel Franco, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
• The loan was collateralized by a mortgage on certain of Campbell's real property.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
• Unlike most investors, the EIF doesn’t have to collateralize trades with cash or government bonds as it is seen as unlikely to default.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 23 May 2018
• The records also show that many properties are cross-collateralized and financed by real estate speculators rather than traditional lenders.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 25 July 2017
• Fed repo interventions take in Treasurys, agency and mortgage bonds from the dealers, in what is effectively a short-term loan of central-bank cash, collateralized by the bonds.
  — Michael S. Derby, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
• In fact, there are more than $1 trillion worth of overnight repo transactions collateralized with US government debt occurring every day.
  — Alexander Saeedy, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2019
• The initial funding of the facility was collateralized by 21 properties in 12 states.
  — Diana Olick, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
• The second leverage cycle was in the financial markets, comprising new debt securities collateralized by mortgages.
  — Emily Stewart, Vox, 18 Sep. 2018
• That requires power projection, so China has turned a dozen countries around the world into client states through debt peonage, collateralizing abusive loans with concessions for military bases and deep-water ports.
  — Nicholas Phillips, National Review, 5 Sep. 2019
• In connection with this loan, PAG released all remaining restricted cash collateralized by the company under its convertible senior notes.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Feb. 2026
• Qollateral, a discreet luxury lender in New York City is rewriting access to capital in a fashion-forward world by collateralizing financial loans against designer pieces.
  — Tanya Akim, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
• The nonprofit leases the buildings back to DPS, which allows Denver School Facilities to mortgage the buildings with a bank trustee that collateralizes the buildings in exchange for debt proceeds, according to the lawsuit.
  — Jessica Seaman, Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2026