How to Use liquidate in a Sentence

liquidate

verb
  • The owners were ordered to liquidate.
  • The owners were ordered to liquidate the company and pay their creditors.
  • The film is about a professional killer who's hired to liquidate a powerful businessman.
  • The company is liquidating its assets.
  • If the heirs want to liquidate the art, that is their choice.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Shop With Points could be an easy way to liquidate them.
    — Sarah Hostetler, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Here’s what to know amid reports the airline could liquidate.
    — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The camp was to be liquidated and all children would be sent to the gas chamber.
    — Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • When the fund liquidates, the dividend dwelling is gone.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • In at least one case, villagers voted to liquidate their trust for a one-time payout.
    — Author: Charles Wohlforth | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2018
  • At some point, builders will be forced to cut prices to liquidate inventories.
    — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The bar owner hoped to liquidate his stock with passing truckers.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 24 June 2020
  • Doing so required her to liquidate her assets and take out a major loan.
    — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Banks said, ‘Your client could liquidate and sell his position.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The solution here is to liquidate investments and use them to pay down debt.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The young Gertler liquidated stock and turned to banks and his family for the cash.
    — Nicolas Niarchos, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • You might be forced to liquidate and pay tax on the appreciation.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • To pass the climate stress tests, banks would have to liquidate fossil-fuel assets.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Those stores may not be liquidated right away, as a result, Snyder said.
    — Author: Abha Bhattarai, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2018
  • New lenders could keep Town Center open, or try to liquidate the mall’s assets and close it.
    — Andy Peters, ajc, 28 Jan. 2021
  • He was reported to liquidate his assets such as his Hummer and house to pay off bills.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The remaining six doors will be liquidated further down the line.
    — David Moin, WWD, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Traders who used leverage to make crypto bets would need to liquidate positions in the event of margin calls.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2025
  • When the woman’s parent dies, the home has to be liquidated, and the boomers are evicted by the estate.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 June 2019
  • The bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate their holdings.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 15 Mar. 2021
  • And in the worst cases in the past year, some chains have moved directly to liquidate their businesses and close the doors.
    — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Sears Canada, on the other hand, announced plans to liquidate.
    — Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Shoppers should keep checking the store being liquidated to keep track of the discounts.
    — Anne D'innocenzio, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The clothing chain Bon-Ton also liquidated this year and closed all its stores.
    — Michael Corkery, The Seattle Times, 15 Oct. 2018
  • An estate sale is a way to liquidate the belongings of a household when a certain life event warrants it.
    — Elizabeth W. Cook, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2021

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