How to Use insolvent in a Sentence

insolvent

adjective
  • That would be the one good thing about an insolvent Chicago.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • Dozens of carriers have stopped writing business or gone insolvent in those states.
    — Brianna Sacks, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2023
  • Yes, today's 2,315 insolvent banks can luck out on the market.
    — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • That does not mean those banks are doomed — insolvent lenders can survive if they are given time to recover and work through their losses.
    — Stacy Cowley, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • Their price collapsed, and, in a matter of hours, FTX was insolvent.
    — Max Chafkin, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Many speculators were insolvent, and the banks that had lent to them were in similarly dire shape.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • Six of those companies were declared insolvent this year, even before Ian.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The federal government has been insolvent for many years, and budget deficits and debt are nothing new.
    — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 14 May 2026
  • Caught in the midst of the currency storm, banks became insolvent, and the economy collapsed.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Now, those plans are projected to remain insolvent through at least 2051.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The bailout is the largest to date under a 2021 package for near-insolvent retirement plans.
    — Heather Gillers, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Eventually, the spokesman said, the theater, which is not insolvent, hoped to return to producing its own work.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Many companies that have become insolvent cite that as the reason for their financial troubles.
    — Laura Gersony, ABC News, 31 July 2023
  • Many of the companies from that era went insolvent, leaving homeowners once again scrambling for coverage in the wake of storms.
    — Scott Pham, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • In a country once billed as the Switzerland of the Middle East, the banks are largely insolvent.
    — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The premium hikes are necessary because the flood program is insolvent.
    — WSJ, 24 June 2021
  • Regulators hoped insolvent S&Ls could grow their way out of trouble, avoiding the need for a bailout.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 4 May 2022
  • In fact, the American taxpayer will bear the cost of union plans that were insolvent long before the pandemic.
    — Howard B. Adler and Alex J. Pollock, WSJ, 11 July 2022
  • As the Federal Reserve raised rates, funding costs rose and many thrifts became insolvent.
    — Charles W. Calomiris and Phil Gramm, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023
  • That was one of the big takeaways this week when a new report showed that the program is slated to become insolvent by 2032.
    — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • When the piggy bank falls short There are times, however, when estates are insolvent, meaning that their debts are worth more than their assets.
    — James Malm, The Conversation, 1 June 2026
  • Last fall, it was deemed insolvent and filed the Canadian equivalent of bankruptcy.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Because such a clause doesn't kick in until the debtor is insolvent or bankrupt, the first element will be easily satisfied.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Uncle Sam, by any accounting standard, is insolvent.
    — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • In 2017, the system was declared insolvent and placed in receivership.
    — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2020
  • If the issuer becomes insolvent, investors risk losing their capital.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • France ended basically insolvent, and the financial strain brought down its monarchy.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • There was another group that came to testify about how the fund that pays the garment workers when they don’t get paid [by their employer] was pretty much insolvent.
    — Julia Gall, Marie Claire, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The Medicare hospital trust fund is scheduled to be insolvent in 2026.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022
  • McCahey wasn’t present for the meeting, but his lawyer said the company’s accounts had all been frozen and the business was insolvent.
    — Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022

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