How to Use debtor in a Sentence

debtor

noun
  • The debtor agrees to pay the debt over a three-year period.
  • The debtors ranged in age from 24 to 76.
    — Annie Nova, CNBC, 29 Dec. 2025
  • When the money ran out, she was briefly placed in debtor’s prison.
    — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2024
  • Stauffer had been able to strike a deal with a handful of debtors.
    — Anjali Tsui, ProPublica, 3 Dec. 2019
  • That turns you into a debtor nation.
    — CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Most indulged in fine living; many were debtors rather than savers.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • First, has the debtor made a good-faith effort to repay the loans?
    — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The bond holders get paid first, and other debtors get what’s left.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The debtor was running alongside the rig.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • After Pitman yelled some more, the debtor got out.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Many of these debtors despair of ever paying the huge sums back.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The debtor’s wife looked embarrassed.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • In New York, plaintiffs can take up to a tenth of a debtor’s pay.
    — Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 8 June 2020
  • In Egypt, a debtor pledged their repayment on the dead body of a loved one.
    — Kristin Collier, Longreads, 1 Dec. 2021
  • What would be the effect on the credit history of the debtor?
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2021
  • And in between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
  • There was a time in America when debtors were jailed for not paying their debts.
    — Audrey Dutton and Scott Berson, idahostatesman, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Anytime a debtor can obtain more financing on the front end, that’s a good thing.
    — Kristin Larson, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Banks use these covenants to protect against the risk of the debtor's inability to pay down the debt.
    — John Shufeldt, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • In other words, the debtor has no control over the LLC.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • He was presumed guilty by the FTX debtor estate and its lawyers.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The trustee is not supposed to have any ties to the attorneys or to the debtor or to the creditors.
    — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 19 June 2019
  • That led some critics to say prosecutors and judges were running a debtor’s prison.
    — Michael Gordon, charlotteobserver, 16 Feb. 2018
  • These agencies will then try and collect the face-value amount from the debtor and pocket the profit.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Rather than holding on to the debt, the group forgives it, freeing debtors from their obligations.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
  • That’s over four times greater than the IMF’s second largest debtor, Ukraine.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • When the debts are large enough, the debtor calls the shots, because default becomes unbearable.
    — Binyamin Appelbaum, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The debtors tried to get Antero to release to them the proceeds of the oil & gas leases, but to no avail.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • Duer spent the remainder of his life in debtors’ prison, dying in 1799.
    — Owen Lamont, Fortune, 2 July 2026
  • State regulations also set limits on calls to a debtor’s workplace and the time of day the calls can be made.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2021

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