How to Use creditor in a Sentence

creditor

noun

• She owes thousands of dollars to creditors.
• Sears' creditors were pushing hard to have the company shut down during its first trip to bankruptcy.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 20 May 2020
• However, his legacy has been sullied by decades of financial disputes and a barrage lawsuits from artists and creditors.
  — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 14 Jan. 2025
• Normally, consumer advocates may suggest trying to work out a payment plan with creditors.
  — Ann Carrns, New York Times, 8 May 2020
• Rao noted that under normal circumstances creditors would gather in a single room and ask questions about the insolvency.
  — Jay Heflin, Washington Examiner, 13 Apr. 2020
• The creditors can be aggressive: family homes can be subjected to foreclosure, and plots of land are sometimes turned over as collateral.
  — Jordan Salama, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
• Bank account garnishment takes place when creditors are by law allowed to take money from bank accounts to cover debt that is unpaid, which in some cases, could result in a frozen bank account.
  — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2020
• In addition, creditors will no longer be able to use certain medical information for lending decisions.
  — Lorie Konish, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025
• In bankruptcy proceedings, survivors who file claims are considered unsecured creditors.
  — Cara Kelly, USA TODAY, 26 May 2020
• 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
• The creditor groups involved in the deal hold more than $11 billion worth of bonds.
  — DÁnica Coto, Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 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
• The largest creditor is Solomon Management, the same Solomons who sold the surplus to Ariniello.
  — oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2020
• 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

Last Updated: 3 Feb 2025