How to Use moneylender in a Sentence

moneylender

noun

• The plot is set in motion when dacoits (armed bandits) rob and murder Ram Lal, the village moneylender and head of Mano Majra’s only Hindu household.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
• Historically, rural credit in India was fragmented and informal, with farmers depending on relatives, traders, landlords, and local moneylenders for financing, which often came with high interest rates.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026
• That name comes from the Old Testament book of Nehemiah, when the prophet Nehemiah used his influence to coordinate a large assembly to call out the nobles and moneylenders for exploiting the Israelites.
  — Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
• Prior Born in Florence, Italy, into a family of moneylenders, Dante took a different career path, becoming a writer and involving himself in Florentine politics.
  — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026
• Far from moderating political passions, Freneau stoked hatred of his political rivals, the Federalists, and their leader, Alexander Hamilton, even publishing an anti-Semitic poem comparing Hamilton’s work at the Treasury Department to that of Jewish moneylenders.
  — Jeffrey Rosen, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026