DEBT in a Sentence

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175 example sentences for DEBT, such as:

1. He didn't pay the debt and.
2. The firm has defaulted on a debt.
3. After he lost his job, he got into debt.
4. Don't say love, a promise is a debt owed.
5. The national debt is analogous with private debt.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEBT
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debt
 n.  liability; obligation; money or goods or services owed by one person to another
Classic Sentence: (119 in 8 pages)
1  To the Church, therefore, and to the priests, we Italians owe this first debt, that through them we have become wicked and irreligious.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII.
2  And a still greater debt we owe them for what is the immediate cause of our ruin, namely, that by the Church our country is kept divided.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII.
3  The Burkes held a hundred acres, but they were still in debt.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  Indeed, the gaunt father who toiled night and day would scarcely be happy out of debt, being so used to it.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
5  As it is, he is hopelessly in debt, disappointed, and embittered.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  The keynote of the Black Belt is debt; not commercial credit, but debt in the sense of continued inability on the part of the mass of the population to make income cover expense.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
7  Such a financial revolution was it that involved the owners of the cotton-belt in debt.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
8  And yet on two-thirds of the land there is but one crop, and that leaves the toilers in debt.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
9  Once in debt, it is no easy matter for a whole race to emerge.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
10  In a more prosperous year the situation is far better; but on the average the majority of tenants end the year even, or in debt, which means that they work for board and clothes.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
11  But with the carrying out of the crop-lien system, the deterioration of the land, and the slavery of debt, the position of the metayers has sunk to a dead level of practically unrewarded toil.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
12  If the tenant worked hard and raised a large crop, his rent was raised the next year; if that year the crop failed, his corn was confiscated and his mule sold for debt.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
13  When freedom came, he was still in debt to his master some three hundred dollars.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
14  I have always felt proud that she refused to go into debt for that which she did not have the money to pay for.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
15  It was my greatest ambition during the summer to save money enough with which to pay this debt.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
16  The crux of the country's economic problems is its foreign debt.
17  The enormous national debt amassed in the last eight years makes all this apparent prosperity nothing but a house of cards.
18  The meeting produced the usual bromides about macroeconomic policy, third-world debt and the environment.
19  The firm has defaulted on a debt.
20  The company said the debt was accumulated during its acquisition of nine individual businesses.
21  After he lost his job, he got into debt.
22  He was a compulsive gambler and often heavily in debt.
23  One option may be to leave the debt outstanding and extend the payment terms.
24  He didn't pay the debt and.
25  The national debt is analogous with private debt.
26  Don't say love, a promise is a debt owed.
27  It's hard to stay out of debt when you are a student.
28  The Archbishop of Canterbury has sounded a warning to Europe'sleaders on third world debt.
29  But Poland's coal industry - the second largest in Europe - is heavily in debt.
30  America and Britain oppose this amendment but some other European countries, in particular Germany, have always been lukewarm on debt relief and might be swayed.