How to Use foreclose in a Sentence

foreclose

verb

• The bank has threatened to foreclose their mortgage.
• They've been unable to make their mortgage payments, and the bank has threatened to foreclose.
• Bryan bought the debt and filed to foreclose the next year, court records show.
  — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 27 May 2017
• The lender, the New York branch of Deutsche Bank, is seeking to foreclose on the loan, the notice says.
  — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2022
• And Dan is hoping that the bank won’t foreclose on the house in the midst of the pandemic.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
• The bank foreclosed on the upscale Fishers home with the boat on Geist.
  — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 29 May 2018
• When Benter failed to pay it back, the lender swooped in and foreclosed on her home.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2023
• Less than two months later, the HOA moved to foreclose.
  — Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 27 Apr. 2025
• Turned out the bank didn’t foreclose on their place after all.
  — Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
• When the bank was about to foreclose on the family farm, Frey bought it for her own.
  — Marci Schmitt, Star Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
• When the housing market crashed about a decade ago, both banks foreclosed on the loans.
  — Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, 28 June 2019
• He’s been trying to sell for 16 years and now a bank is trying to foreclose.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 10 Sep. 2024
• Yet the court on Thursday seemed to foreclose such a bleak scenario.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• The bank filed to foreclose in early August, and a court granted the request the next month.
  — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2023
• The city has tried to foreclose on the mall, but it's been unsuccessful.
  — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2022
• But that doesn’t foreclose the chance of getting better.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
• Then, last year, Yorke moved to foreclose on her condo.
  — Mariam Elba, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2021
• Instead, the city can foreclose on the liens of a property and take title to it.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2022
• If the market goes up, keep the buyer’s deposit and allow the lender to foreclose.
  — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2025
• Jones took on two jobs at one point to help keep them afloat and nearly had his house foreclosed on.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
• The town donated 5 acres of land that had been foreclosed on and offered a 99-year lease for $1.
  — Karina Bland, azcentral, 23 May 2018
• Does that foreclose the option of a U.S. troop buildup in Eastern Europe?
  — Robert Burns, ajc, 15 Mar. 2022
• The city could be forced to foreclose, take possession of the building and sell it, likely at a huge loss.
  — jsonline.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• If the banks opt to foreclose, this could lead to more bankruptcy filings in 2023, Walsh said.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2022
• The owner of the land where the house sits is trying to evict her, and the holder of the mortgage on her home is trying to foreclose on her.
  — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
• Several of the homes were foreclosed on and sold at auction.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 6 July 2024
• Congress must act to protect them and foreclose this issue once and for all by enacting a path to citizenship.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 26 June 2026
• His grandfather’s house was foreclosed on; his mother got sick.
  — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
• Bobby is sent to Nevada to foreclose on a failing theater there.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2026
• That meant, for those loans, that the bank would be first in line to foreclose on a property if the borrower went into default.
  — Sean Emery, Oc Register, 10 June 2026