DEBT in a Sentence
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175 example sentences for DEBT, such as:
1. Lying rides upon debt's back.
2. Poor without debt is better than a prince.
3. We have to charge off the debt as hopeless.
4. We are concerned about the size of our debt.
5. A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
2. Poor without debt is better than a prince.
3. We have to charge off the debt as hopeless.
4. We are concerned about the size of our debt.
5. A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DEBT
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debt
n. the state of owing something (especially money)
n. an obligation to pay or do something
Classic Sentence: (119 in 8 pages)
1 To the Church, therefore, and to the priests, we Italians owe this first debt, that through them we have become wicked and irreligious.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII.
2 And a still greater debt we owe them for what is the immediate cause of our ruin, namely, that by the Church our country is kept divided.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII.
3 The Burkes held a hundred acres, but they were still in debt.
4 Indeed, the gaunt father who toiled night and day would scarcely be happy out of debt, being so used to it.
5 As it is, he is hopelessly in debt, disappointed, and embittered.
6 The keynote of the Black Belt is debt; not commercial credit, but debt in the sense of continued inability on the part of the mass of the population to make income cover expense.
7 Such a financial revolution was it that involved the owners of the cotton-belt in debt.
8 And yet on two-thirds of the land there is but one crop, and that leaves the toilers in debt.
9 Once in debt, it is no easy matter for a whole race to emerge.
10 In a more prosperous year the situation is far better; but on the average the majority of tenants end the year even, or in debt, which means that they work for board and clothes.
11 But with the carrying out of the crop-lien system, the deterioration of the land, and the slavery of debt, the position of the metayers has sunk to a dead level of practically unrewarded toil.
12 If the tenant worked hard and raised a large crop, his rent was raised the next year; if that year the crop failed, his corn was confiscated and his mule sold for debt.
13 When freedom came, he was still in debt to his master some three hundred dollars.
14 I have always felt proud that she refused to go into debt for that which she did not have the money to pay for.
15 It was my greatest ambition during the summer to save money enough with which to pay this debt.
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1 They will eventually be able to claw back all or most of the debt.
2 Disease, enemy, and debt --these three must be cut off as soon as they begin to grow.
3 Lying rides upon debt's back.
4 Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
5 Xerox is expected to use the cash to pay down debt from the insurance unit.
6 Romania is paying more and more to Western banks simply to service the debt.
7 She cited three reasons why people get into debt.
8 A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
9 Poor without debt is better than a prince.
10 The national debt stands at fifty-five billion dollars.
11 The board has so misconducted the affairs of the company that it's deep in debt.
12 The firm had to charge off the debt as hopeless.
13 We have to charge off the debt as hopeless.
14 We are concerned about the size of our debt.
15 His research will document how the debt crisis occurred.