How to Use creditor in a Sentence

creditor

noun
Definition of creditornext
  • She owes thousands of dollars to creditors.
  • Once the case is in court, creditors who say they're owed money can then seek a piece of the assets.
    — CBS News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The creditors and attorneys are then paid, and the children get what’s left.
    — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2023
  • By that point, more than a hundred creditors had lined up.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • By then, Whistler was deep in debt, with Leyland his main creditor.
    — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2022
  • These sales are often done for a fraction of the amount owed so the creditor can recover some of the money.
    — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • While creditors weren’t seeking a wind-up order, Judge Chan noted the lack of progress.
    — TIME, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The global icon owed money to more than 65 creditors during the time of his passing.
    — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 28 June 2024
  • On top of that, your creditor may charge their own processing fee.
    — Sarah Brady, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Lawyers for the firm’s creditors argued that Fisker should have filed for bankruptcy late last year.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 30 June 2024
  • That means the creditor can only receive any distributions that would be made by the LLC to the member.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 2 July 2023
  • For both of these hindrances to building credit scores, talking to creditors is a good first step.
    — Nerdwallet, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Every dollar in fees is deducted from the pool of funds that will be returned to creditors at the end of the bankruptcies.
    — Yiwen Lu, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • All this even as Cred’s customers and creditors go unpaid.
    — Jessica Klein, Fortune, 6 July 2023
  • Unsecured creditors — such as the Ledgerwoods — are paid if there are funds left over.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 6 May 2024
  • The group of creditors, who call themselves the FTX 2.0 Coalition, believe the exchange has a future without him.
    — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The judge did direct FTX to file an unredacted creditor matrix under seal with the court, but the company has yet to do so.
    — CBS News, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Unfortunately, Will is in a lot of debt, and the creditors came calling.
    — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Do not pay a creditor with a high-interest credit card to get out from underneath the debt.
    — Jennifer Chesak, Health, 4 July 2023
  • The creditor matrix for all three companies is found here.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • If Simpson left his assets to his children in a trust, that could protect them from creditors.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2024
  • In an update in April, Evergrande admitted that the plan was still short of support from a key group of creditors.
    — Laura He, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
  • If yes, please explain: Bankruptcy was paid back to creditors over 30 years ago.
    — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • No bank can survive if every creditor asks for their money back at once.
    — Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 17 Mar. 2023
  • In a 7-1 decision, the court sided with him and the other creditors, ruling that the FSIA did not apply in this circumstance.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
  • Yellen will also make a stop in Zambia, which will serve to highlight its huge debt to China, its biggest creditor.
    — Fatima Hussein, ajc, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The company had status as a secured creditor due to Georgia’s pawn statutes, and would have to be paid back first and at the original terms of the title pawn.
    — Margaret Coker, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The big takeaway: Trump is likely sitting on a huge pile of cash—but not enough to pay off his legal creditors with a simple wire transfer.
    — Kyle Mullins, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • But Evergrande, whose debt ballooned to exceed $300 billion, was unable to come to terms with its creditors and was ordered earlier this year to liquidate.
    — Michelle Chapman, Sun Sentinel, 26 July 2024
  • After weeks of fending off creditors’ requests for oversight, as those efforts gained steam, Giuliani changed strategy.
    — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 10 July 2024

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