How to Use junk bond in a Sentence

junk bond

noun
  • All sorts of stocks and junk bonds.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Tesla has been propping up its cash flow needs in part by selling junk bonds.
    — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 29 July 2019
  • No celebrities break the fourth wall in a bubble bath to explain junk bonds.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Finally, a word on junk bonds and the risk of defaults, which is overblown.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Signs of slowing growth haven’t done much to damp investors’ appetite for junk bonds.
    — Matt Grossman, wsj.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The junk bond market was wide open, even to the riskiest oil companies.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 2 Apr. 2020
  • And while some think the junk bond market has never looked this good, others think the worst is yet to come.
    — Sam Unsted, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
  • These junk bonds tend to pay much higher yields than government bonds, but they are called junk for a reason.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 25 June 2019
  • In one sign investors haven’t given up riskier assets, many are holding on to junk bonds.
    — Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
  • With the exception of last month, loans have been outperforming junk bonds this year.
    — Yakob Peterseil, Bloomberg.com, 3 May 2018
  • Wells Fargo is among those who favor such a move, thanks to attractive junk bond yields.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The price of Tesla’s junk bonds is well below the level at which they were issued last year.
    — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • That’s not much compensation, given that junk bonds tend to behave a lot like stock in bad markets.
    — Carla Fried, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
  • But the new issue market for junk bonds is on fire this year because of investors’ relentless hunt for yield.
    — Marcus Ashworth | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
  • At least three developers defaulted on their dollar debt this month as junk bond yields surged to a decade-high.
    — Time, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Don’t know the difference between a municipal bond and a junk bond?
    — Adam Shell, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Sort of like Michael Milliken buying junk bonds, as a close-enough analogy.
    — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2024
  • For high-yield or junk bonds, those rated below investment grade, the story is more or less the same (see chart 3).
    — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • But buying a four-speed washer-dryer and then celebrating with an in-store purchase of some junk bonds?
    — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2017
  • That gives the company a little distance from junk bond territory one tier down the rating scale.
    — Evan Clark, WWD, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Dozens of drillers went bankrupt and the capital markets are now pretty much closed for all but a few companies able to offer junk bonds.
    — Kevin Crowley and Rachel Adams-Heard, Houston Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Netflix, a company that built its business on junk bonds, is looking to borrow heavily again.
    — Emily Graffeo, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2025
  • In Europe, amazingly, the junk bonds of more than a dozen large companies now have negative yields.
    — Robert Pozen, Fortune, 29 July 2019
  • Risk goes up The potential for rapid and nervous reaction now creates a risk in the higher-yield and junk bond markets.
    — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 15 July 2019
  • Of the three major ratings agencies, Fitch is the only one that has yet to upgrade the state’s credit from one notch above junk bond status.
    — Dan Petrella, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Bonfire of the Vanities may have been about junk bonds, though the book itself will probably never behave like one.
    — Fortune, 24 May 2018
  • Think again about that $130 billion public pension hole, which has dragged down the state’s credit rating to near junk bond status.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 1 June 2018
  • Like its value is like that of junk bonds or a Baltic Avenue Monopoly property.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Ford in 2012 was upgraded to investment grade, which is what a credit rating is called when it is not considered a junk bond.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 10 Sep. 2019
  • While it’s taken a long time for the market to realize this, 2024 has been the year of realizing the benefits of junk bonds.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024

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