How to Use creditor in a Sentence

creditor

noun

• She owes thousands of dollars to creditors.
• And can a creditor or debt collector seize them from a bank account?
  — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 29 Dec. 2020
• The creditor groups involved in the deal hold more than $11 billion worth of bonds.
  — DÁnica Coto, Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021
• Statutes of limitation are supposed to limit how long a creditor may sue you over a debt.
  — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 28 Nov. 2020
• But in the more complex creditor landscape of today, defaults can also, more than ever, be about struggling nations stuck in the web of diplomatic feuds that bind their creditors together.
  — The Economist, 6 Mar. 2021
• In theory, a debtor and creditor enter into a contract on a level playing field and with fair terms; in reality, debts are often incurred under conditions of duress.
  — Astra Taylor, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• Most likely, the creditor was conducting post-judgment enforcement activities that pressured the debtor into filing.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
• Take the extra step to give the creditor a call and confirm the amount due.
  — Juan Carlos Medina, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
• At the end of the day, what the creditor ends up with is a lien on that interest.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• In one year, the estate creditor must make a claim to the losses.
  — Russel Morgan, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• 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
• In some cases, your creditors may even take you to court.
  — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 1 Aug. 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
• This includes the name and mailing information of the debt collector, the name of the creditor and the debt amount.
  — Cheryl Winokur Munk, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• While creditors weren’t seeking a wind-up order, Judge Chan noted the lack of progress.
  — TIME, 29 Jan. 2024
• That means a creditor cannot force sale of the homestead to pay general debts of Dan’s estate.
  — Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2021
• The global icon owed money to more than 65 creditors during the time of his passing.
  — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 28 June 2024
• This means a creditor can’t prevail in court after four years have passed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2021
• 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
• But that is a decision that creditors have to make all the time: Is the judgment worth pursuing.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 6 Sep. 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
• Texas and Florida homeowners are also lucky, as their houses are essentially protected from creditors.
  — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024