How to Use creditworthy in a Sentence

creditworthy

adjective

• Some small banks have viewed credit cards as a way to cross sell their customers and to bring in new creditworthy customers.
  — Annamaria Andriotis, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2018
• For starters, the buyers are creditworthy and there’s epic supply shortfall of new homes.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2021
• However, this may not mean those in this age group are more creditworthy.
  — Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2021
• Bank chiefs today want to do more than make loans to creditworthy borrowers.
  — Rachel Louise Ensign, WSJ, 2 July 2019
• That's the interest rate that banks charge their most creditworthy customers.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2022
• The goal of the program is not to bail out specific companies but to make sure creditworthy firms have access to capital.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 29 June 2020
• Including them could help those firms fill the void left by big commercial banks, which have cut back on mortgage lending to all but the most creditworthy customers.
  — Andrew Ackerman, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• Apply for a private student loan with a creditworthy cosigner to increase the odds of approval and to reduce the interest rate.
  — Mark Kantrowitz, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• Banks offer customers who have proven to be creditworthy their best, or prime, interest rate.
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 18 Mar. 2021
• On the revenue side, half the improvement came from a gain on the sale of an asset and accounting gains that stem from Deutsche itself becoming less creditworthy.
  — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 16 July 2018
• Banks have spent much of the past 10 years chasing ultra-creditworthy borrowers.
  — Annamaria Andriotis, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2018
• Part of the bad loan problem, critics argue, stems from easy lending to cronies, who run businesses that are often less than creditworthy.
  — Quartz, 13 Dec. 2022
• The least creditworthy companies will struggle to raise money needed to hire and expand.
  — David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2022
• Yes, a creditworthy outfit like DoubleLine gets to borrow for cheap, but its costs are still ultimately tied to short-term rates.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Rewards programs, one of the biggest costs for large card issuers chasing creditworthy customers, are rare.
  — Peter Rudegeair, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
• The lower the credit score, the higher the interest rate, so those new buyers are paying more every month on their mortgage than more creditworthy buyers would.
  — Ross Martin, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• That could lead more creditworthy homeowners to seek home-equity loans to finance projects.
  — Christopher S. Rugaber, The Seattle Times, 3 June 2017
• And those differences may not make members of one group less creditworthy than members of another.
  — Kareem Saleh, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• Instead, many critics figured that less creditworthy borrowers were getting a break at the expense of those with higher scores.
  — Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 8 May 2023
• Small farmers who previously weren’t considered creditworthy would then be able to get loans against their land.
  — Payal Dhar, Wired, 15 Nov. 2021
• Yields on junk bonds, a measure of borrowing rates for the least creditworthy companies, are hovering below 4 percent, an all-time low.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 15 June 2021
• Whatever the truth of Mr. Kavanaugh’s teenage behavior, this is not a creditworthy exercise in advise and consent.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
• That is partly because longer duration loans tend to go to less creditworthy borrowers, according to Moody’s.
  — WSJ, 16 July 2021
• Along with rule changes made by the Clinton administration to raise homeownership rates, this led to a surge of new mortgages issued to less-creditworthy borrowers.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 26 July 2019
• Many targeted smaller finance companies that often catered to the least creditworthy borrowers with nowhere else to turn.
  — Gabrielle Coppola, Bloomberg.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• But until there are creditworthy takers for fresh advances, deposits won’t revive.
  — Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• But a version more focused on small-business lending might be a way for the government to push cash into businesses in need — while letting private investors decide which firms are creditworthy.
  — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
• Because they are backed by the government, these securities are viewed as less risky than other investments and considered to be as creditworthy as the US government.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 26 May 2023
• This is the interest rate banks charge their most creditworthy borrowers, like large corporations.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 16 June 2022
• Sure, some general purpose credit cards offer promotions to the most creditworthy customers at 0% for up to 21 months on purchases and in some cases on balance transfers.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024