How to Use debt service in a Sentence

debt service

noun
  • Africa spends more on debt service costs than on health care.
    — Vanessa Kerry, STAT, 31 May 2024
  • Once the debt service is paid off, the tax falls off.
    — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • And meaning, a rise in rates affects debt service costs more.
    — WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
  • When landlords are unable to debt service their loans.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The tax would help pay the debt service on the $300 million project.
    — Mike Cason, AL.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The districts would also have to share a portion of their debt service levy.
    — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2025
  • When so much of our budget goes to debt service, we are misgoverned.
    — Mona Charen, National Review, 8 Nov. 2019
  • That money is spent on debt service and services around the theme parks and resorts.
    — Michael Hiltzikbusiness Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Also, there is a question over whether the money could be used for debt service.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 16 June 2021
  • This bill makes no provision as to how that debt service is going to be assumed.
    — Eric Levenson and Dianne Gallagher, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The cost of debt service is currently more than a trillion dollars a year.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • Annual payments on the bond can be covered through a debt service tax levy.
    — Alicia Fabbre, Naperville Sun, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Interest rates and the cost of debt service have fallen even further since then.
    — Nihal Krishan, Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Worker pensions, retiree health care and debt service make up about a third of the budget.
    — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • Any debt service abatement proposal will come to the board in March.
    — Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The price is too high and requires debt service payments that extend too far and impose too much risk.
    — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The price is too high and requires debt service payments that extend too far and impose too much risk.
    — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 18 May 2026
  • The price was too high and requires debt service payments that extend too far and impose too much risk.
    — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Kenya is now spending 75 percent of its tax revenue on debt service.
    — Mark Suzman, Foreign Affairs, 11 July 2024
  • Maryland lottery proceeds will be used to pay debt service for the project, which is still in the planning stages.
    — Dave McMillion, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The city could pay off all the debt service and maybe finally see some life in what’s the deadest part of downtown.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • State law calls for the rate to be set at an amount sufficient to repay the annual debt service.
    — Bryan P. Sears, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Local funds also tend to make up the majority of debt service funds for the schools.
    — Neal Franklin, Dallas Morning News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • South Elgin must also pledge to raise rates to match the debt service, according to the memo.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The property tax rate will not change, but the bond will add to the district’s debt services paid by taxpayers.
    — Alecia Taylor, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The entities' funding will largely go towards the debt service on the project.
    — Erin Edgemon, AL.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • About $25 million of the hike would go toward debt service on a capital plan.
    — John Byrne, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Havre de Grace will repay the funds over 20 years, making debt service payments twice a year.
    — David Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 10 Sep. 2020
  • This squeezed out spending until that caused debt service problems and spending constraints.
    — Ray Dalio, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • That number would increase to $5 million per year — or eight times the annual debt service on the bonds.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 22 July 2019

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