How to Use commercial bank in a Sentence

commercial bank

noun
  • The trading desks of large commercial banks had nothing to do with the crash.
    — Norbert J. Michel, Fortune, 4 June 2018
  • In the weeks since the failures, commercial banks have cut back on lending.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
  • If bond prices later drop, that could leave commercial banks with losses.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The commercial bank, among the 20 largest in the country, was caught in a free-fall bank run.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
  • After a decade of steady growth, deposits in commercial banks have begun to shrink (see chart).
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The first week of April, deposits at commercial banks rose slightly.
    — Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The third cause is that the cash sitting on the books of financial firms is largely held by a few big commercial banks.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
  • The macroeconomic climate is still tough for a lot of commercial banks.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The banks have since become one of Vietnam’s largest commercial banks by assets.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Most small business loans are made by commercial banks; many are small, community banks.
    — William Dunkelberg, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Like most credit cards, this particular store card is sponsored by a big commercial bank.
    — Ivan Illan, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • There was no run by retail depositors (people like you and me) against commercial banks.
    — Robert Samuelson, Twin Cities, 26 June 2019
  • The central bank can buy or sell currency — or order commercial banks to do so — to dampen price movements.
    — CBS News, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Smaller banks, not subject to the higher costs commercial banks face, are able to offer customers higher rates.
    — Kevin McAllister, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
  • In the credit markets, the share of credit coming from commercial banks has also been shrinking.
    — Daniel Kern, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The deal is part of BTN's plan to form a Sharia commercial bank to meet customer demands.
    — Ryan Lawler, Axios, 21 Jan. 2025
  • For a while, the monopoly of commercial banks and S&Ls on checking accounts held.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Dozens of protesters later moved to central Beirut, smashed the windows of a commercial bank and set fire near its metal gate.
    — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Mason is one of the few Black executives working for a major commercial bank.
    — Chauncey Alcorn Cnn Business, CNN, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The Fed alone decides the size of its assets and liabilities, not the commercial banks.
    — WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
  • In the commercial bank, which serves midsize businesses, profit rose 30%.
    — David Benoit, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Angela Chao was also on the board of the Bank of China, a commercial bank, not the central bank.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The project will provide housing in the mid-price range, council members said, and resolve the nuisance posed by the vacant commercial bank building.
    — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Our review found that each of the top 10 largest commercial banks have deployed chatbots as a component of their customer service.
    — John F. Wasik, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • British pound notes always hold their value, and while the round, 1-pound coins lost their legal status this week, they can still be deposited at many commercial banks.
    — Brian Blackstone, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
  • And it was intended—and worked very well—to structurally separate investment banks from commercial banks, from consumer banks.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • The program allows firms with fewer than 500 employees to borrow ten weeks of business costs from commercial banks to keep their doors open.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The company was straddled with $391 million in debt owed to non-bank lenders that charge higher interest rates than commercial banks.
    — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 30 June 2023
  • In modern economies, most money takes the form of deposits in commercial banks, rather than the cash in circulation and the reserves determined by the central bank.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • Six of them are elected by member commercial banks and the other three are appointed by the Fed’s Board of Governors.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025

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