How to Use insolvency in a Sentence

insolvency

noun
  • Some of its units filed for insolvency more than a month ago.
    — Libby Cherry, Fortune Europe, 29 Dec. 2023
  • These were all drawn out insolvencies, concealed for months if not years.
    — Nic Carter, Fortune Crypto, 23 July 2023
  • The new law will hasten the program’s insolvency date by about half a year.
    — Fatima Hussein, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
  • This means more retailers may soon be on the brink of insolvency.
    — Sommer Saadi, Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • One is true insolvency — not having enough assets to pay all debts.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
  • For them, ruin would be the insolvency for their central banks.
    — Emmett Rensin, New Republic, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Fiscal insolvency happens when a school district runs out of cash to pay its bills.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • During that time their ability to lend fell as the threat of insolvency rose.
    — Thomas M. Hoenig and, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
  • To avoid insolvency, the plan could be forced to lean on its member carriers.
    — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
  • More than 300 such plans across the country are at risk of insolvency.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2018
  • According to the team, the district is at high risk of insolvency.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
  • More changes are being considered as the threat of insolvency looms again.
    — Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
  • The last time was in 1983, when the system was just five years away from insolvency.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The company’s been teetering on the edge of insolvency for much of the last year.
    — Samantha Ehlinger, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Feb. 2018
  • They’ll be sold again to ever-smaller companies that teeter on the edge of insolvency.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Without assets to back up their holdings, and no one willing to bail them out, the firm teetered on the edge of insolvency.
    — Quartz, 11 Nov. 2022
  • To have the governor go to teachers and tell them to make the sacrifice to fix the insolvency isn't right.
    — Thomas Novelly, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2017
  • But, experts have also warned, the measure could speed up insolvency for the program’s trust funds.
    — The Hill Staff, The Hill, 14 Aug. 2025
  • But the county and state both said that the district’s overspending could lead it to insolvency, which would lead to a state takeover.
    — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The insolvency of some clubs has the potential to force a reshuffling of the minor league system.
    — Greg Luca, ExpressNews.com, 1 July 2020
  • That could force them to make more-dramatic changes to the programs later on as the insolvency date gets closer.
    — Kate Davidson, WSJ, 11 June 2021
  • But that would only delay insolvency by seven years.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 9 Apr. 2026
  • In the insolvency judges’ view, though, the committee has no role to play in distributing the sale proceeds.
    — Washington Post, 17 July 2019
  • The move comes as the district works to claw itself out of a budget crisis that puts it at high risk of fiscal insolvency by the end of the year.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Bloomberg reported last week that Greensill was in the process of filing for insolvency.
    — Jonathan Browning, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Then, as now, CPS was grappling with a cash shortage that placed it at the edge of insolvency.
    — Hal Dardick, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2017
  • Thousands of small-town banks had already failed, and now Wall Street itself faced insolvency.
    — Meg Jacobs, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
  • But the real flood began after 1975, as the city clawed back from the brink of insolvency.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2025
  • With the insolvency cliff just six years away, senators elected in this year’s midterm races will likely cast votes on a solution.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 28 June 2026
  • Several of them held onto hope that some or all of those uncertainties could work out in their favor and save them from insolvency.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 8 May 2026

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