ARREARS in a Sentence

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10 example sentences for ARREARS, such as:

1. My account is badly in arrears.
2. Some months she was in arrears.
3. He was in arrears with his payments on the car.
4. The local authority must try to recover arrears of rent.
5. They have promised to pay the arrears over the next five years.

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 Meanings and Examples of ARREARS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
arrears
 n.  being in debt; unpaid, overdue debt or an unfulfilled obligation
Classic Sentence:
1  There is a pile of these arrears very soon, and it swells like a rolling snowball.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
2  But he could not let off peasants who did not pay their rent, nor let them fall into arrears.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 10
3  Some months she was in arrears.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
4  It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain a quittance from the past.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND
5  One of them in my room, Charles Gorot, had some arrears of work to make up, so I left him there and went out to dine.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
6  My mother glances submissively at them, shuts the book, and lays it by as an arrear to be worked out when my other tasks are done.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
Example Sentence:
1  My account is badly in arrears.
2  The local authority must try to recover arrears of rent.
3  They have promised to pay the arrears over the next five years.
4  He was in arrears with his payments on the car.