How to Use bridge loan in a Sentence

bridge loan

noun
  • These loans are usually short-term bridge loans lasting six to 24 months.
    — Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The bridge loan was supposed to be repaid from $75 million raised from investors.
    — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
  • But at the last minute, Pacifica got a $2 million bridge loan to pay off the legal judgment.
    — Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Due to its fragile position, X couldn’t repay or refinance the bridge loans.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • But the reduction of spreads remains uncertain and bridge loan spreads are increasing.
    — Adam Finkel, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • SpaceX is now also on the hook to repay debt of xAI as part of the bridge loan referenced above.
    — David Trainer, Forbes.com, 21 May 2026
  • Those options could include a short-term bridge loan or a higher-interest loan from a private-equity firm.
    — Ruth Simon, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
  • Knock customers usually get a 30-year mortgage and the interest-free bridge loan.
    — Brooke Henderson, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The short-term cash infusion would serve as a bridge loan until the new media rights deal begins in 2025.
    — Jon Wilner, The Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The debt portion is usually secured through a bridge loan from a syndicate of banks, who then sell it to leveraged loan and bond investors.
    — Priscila Azevedo Rocha, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • One key difference with Paramount’s bridge loan is that it will be secured by the company’s assets.
    — Natalie Harrison, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Another option is a bridge loan, also known as gap financing, which fills the gap between the two properties.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The bank has more room on its balance sheet, for example, to offer bigger bridge loans for mergers and acquisitions.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 26 June 2025
  • The financing is intended to be a two-day bridge loan that will permit mortgage investors to meet payments to banks and other lenders.
    — Emily Flitter, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Rival banks joined together to offer bridge loans, to help keep businesses open until the utility claims came through.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • SoftBank had agreed to offer a $25 million bridge loan in return for major changes at Fair, sources say.
    — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Because the term is short, interest rates are a couple of percentage points higher on a bridge loan than for a regular mortgage.
    — cleveland, 15 Aug. 2021
  • As part of the Polish Aviation Group deal, the companies will repay those bridge loans in full.
    — Melissa Yeager, azcentral, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Netflix, the streaming industry leader, is working on a bridge loan that totals tens of billions of dollars, one of the people said.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Due Diligence When considering a bridge loan, diligence and careful planning are key.
    — Xan Myburgh, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Another option is bridge loans, which help finance the transition period between the two closings.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • The loans covered 24 weeks of payroll, but with no end in sight to the pandemic, the money is looking increasingly like a bridge loan to nowhere.
    — Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 2020
  • City officials said the developers need that money now, and their private lender is willing to loan it to them as a kind of bridge loan until the rest of the funding comes in.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2020
  • With a bridge loan, an appraisal is done on both the replacement property (home being purchased) and the departing residence.
    — Jeff Lazerson, Oc Register, 8 Jan. 2026
  • One or a small group of banks typically provide the initial bridge loan, and then bring in other banks to spread the risk once the acquisition is publicly announced.
    — Natalie Harrison, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The buyer obtained a $27 million bridge loan from Greystone for the acquisition.
    — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2019
  • One or a small group of banks typically provide the initial bridge loan, and then bring in other banks to spread the risk once the acquisition is publicly announced.
    — Natalie Harrison, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The bill amounts to a bridge loan for much of the economy and carries a price tag that equals half the size of the entire $4 trillion-plus annual federal budget.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Winter said that the rest of the funding for the project will come from a bridge loan from the Connecticut Green Bank and federal tax credits.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The lender is Trez Forman Capital Group , which provides commercial bridge loans to builders.
    — David Lyons, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 June 2018

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