How to Use foreclose in a Sentence

foreclose

verb
  • The bank has threatened to foreclose their mortgage.
  • They've been unable to make their mortgage payments, and the bank has threatened to foreclose.
  • Bryan bought the debt and filed to foreclose the next year, court records show.
    — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 27 May 2017
  • Turned out the bank didn’t foreclose on their place after all.
    — Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
  • At the same time, her lenders were trying to foreclose on the market.
    — Sarah Lapidus, AZCentral.com, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Jones took on two jobs at one point to help keep them afloat and nearly had his house foreclosed on.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
  • When the housing market crashed about a decade ago, both banks foreclosed on the loans.
    — Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, 28 June 2019
  • When Benter failed to pay it back, the lender swooped in and foreclosed on her home.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2023
  • None of this forecloses the other threats.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Yet the court on Thursday seemed to foreclose such a bleak scenario.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The city has tried to foreclose on the mall, but it's been unsuccessful.
    — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Debt buyers in the state aren’t allowed to foreclose on a patient’s home.
    — Rae Ellen Bichell, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • When the bank was about to foreclose on the family farm, Frey bought it for her own.
    — Marci Schmitt, Star Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
  • That precedent has been used to foreclose Haudenosaunee land rights across the state.
    — Petala Ironcloud, Time, 23 Mar. 2026
  • But after two to three years of rent payments, two of the victims had their banks foreclose their homes.
    — Adam Sacasa, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 May 2017
  • His grandfather’s house was foreclosed on; his mother got sick.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
  • Another person might have had their house foreclosed on.
    — Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • Instead, the city can foreclose on the liens of a property and take title to it.
    — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2022
  • The bank foreclosed on the upscale Fishers home with the boat on Geist.
    — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 29 May 2018
  • The problem is that its actions to calm markets may have foreclosed all but one of those options.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2023
  • If the market goes up, keep the buyer’s deposit and allow the lender to foreclose.
    — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Goodwill then foreclosed on the delinquent loan to gain ownership of the site.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2025
  • And Dan is hoping that the bank won’t foreclose on the house in the midst of the pandemic.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
  • In August, the lender foreclosed on the campus project and the park leasehold.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2026
  • The city could be forced to foreclose, take possession of the building and sell it, likely at a huge loss.
    — jsonline.com, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Flooding forecloses all of that.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Some of the plots had been foreclosed on; some had been sold, including one for as little as $10.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The lender is threatening to foreclose on the financing if the loans aren’t repaid in full.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • It was foreclosed on and vacated in late 2024.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Bobby is sent to Nevada to foreclose on a failing theater there.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2026

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