How to Use credit line in a Sentence

credit line

noun
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  • At one point, the credit line increased to $3 million, from $1.4 million.
    — Jordyn Holman, New York Times, 24 May 2024
  • Canadian mortgage and home-equity credit line balances increased 9.6 percent from a year ago.
    — Doug Alexander, Bloomberg.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Bolivia has a $10bn Chinese credit line to spend on motorways and hydroelectric dams.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • If the full credit line were in use, Wells Fargo would stand to make 1.75 percentage points over the benchmark Libor rate.
    — Bloomberg.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The balance of the credit line is used for monthly draws during the first 10 years.
    — Jack Guttentag, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Stock Yards was not told about the judgment, but the credit line was extended.
    — Ian McKenzie, Cincinnati.com, 12 June 2020
  • If the return on assets falls short, the retiree can draw on the credit line as needed.
    — Jack Guttentag, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • On Time For most of us, student loans are our first major credit line.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Most loans and credit lines under agreement stretch to at least 2023.
    — Rachel Layne, CBS News, 29 July 2019
  • The commission will seek to raise funds on the market as early as this summer to fund the credit line.
    — Arkansas Online, 2 July 2022
  • Kohl’s also took out all of its $1 billion credit line.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The credit line will come with a 2.25% interest rate, the lowest offered by the three firms who put in bids, Montaño said.
    — Jeff Adelson, NOLA.com, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Most of those loans and credit lines tapped by American won’t come due for at least two years, Parker said.
    — Kyle Arnold, Dallas News, 11 May 2020
  • Argentina is in talks with a the IMF on a credit line or loan that would help the country halt a run on its currency.
    — Jana Randow, Bloomberg.com, 1 June 2018
  • Something as small as a line item not appearing in the right place on the balance sheet can make or break a business’s credit line.
    — Richard Gusmano, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • But the drawings and paintings are Charles’s now, and the obsolete credit line underscores how the modern state grinds on from one reign to the next.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Regardless of the amount, once opened, that credit line is your company and EIN’s first line of credit.
    — Karla Dennis, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • So the first thing to do is read your credit card agreement to understand the cost of borrowing against your credit line.
    — Alani Asis, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The retiree who is a homeowner can add a HECM reverse mortgage to the plan and draw a credit line which can be drawn on for any purpose.
    — Jack Guttentag, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • One small issue: The quote isn’t real. That’s according to a writer who’s name was thrown in the credit line by the Twitter handle @cfbquotes.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al.com, 2 July 2019
  • To shore up their cash flow, hundreds of companies have chosen to draw from credit lines that banks agreed years ago to make available.
    — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Members pay small amounts into it and that gets reported to the bureaus as payment on a credit line.
    — Tom Groenfeldt, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • The credit line also grows over time based on its adjustable interest rate.
    — Janna Herron, USA TODAY, 12 June 2019
  • The school had nearly maxed out its credit line, defaulted on bond terms and amassed tens of millions of dollars in loans and business debts.
    — oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Paying down your balance each month will help, but so will having a higher credit line.
    — Kim Porter, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The company emerged from bankruptcy with a new credit line.
    — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 7 July 2021
  • Or short-term breaks on offering a bigger credit line on your credit card?
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The drawdown was virtually all that was left of the credit line, Simon noted.
    — Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 17 June 2020
  • Voyager will only use the credit line if needed, the company said.
    — Taylor Locke, Fortune, 22 June 2022
  • The central bank's benchmarks guide the costs of borrowing for banks, and through that influence rates throughout the economy, from business credit lines to mortgages and credit cards to government bonds.
    — David McHugh, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024

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