How to Use delinquent in a Sentence

delinquent

1 of 2 noun

• Or what the Fourth of July used to be like with the young delinquent down the street.
  — Chris Erskine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2019
• Delinquent means the person has missed payments for 90 days or more.
  — Gail Marksjarvis, chicagotribune.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• But the overall effect remains that of a juvenile delinquent dressed for a court date.
  — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 27 Sep. 2017
• Acts like washing the feet of juvenile delinquents (some of them Muslim and female) on Holy Thursday shocked the world.
  — Katy Lemieux, Esquire, 30 Dec. 2016
• There was one sheriff that thought these kids were going to be juvenile delinquents and end up in his jail.
  — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2017
• Forced to tutor students at a school, a young delinquent falls for a minister’s daughter.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• The fourth roommate, the delinquent, then started chatting about dinner plans and commenting on the baby.
  — Deborah Tannen, Philly.com, 25 June 2017
• There are two payments due each fiscal year, with the last one considered delinquent after April 10.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2019
• The garden lots, however, are mostly owned by city agencies and tax delinquents.
  — Claudia Vargas, Philly.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Eleven percent of student loan debt was at least 90 days delinquent, a figure the New York Fed said has remained stubbornly high.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 17 May 2017
• Tsuchiya began her career in showbiz as a model and actress and is perhaps best known in the U.S. for her portrayal of the scrappy delinquent in the movie Kamikaze Girls.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 21 July 2017
• The 12-year-old was charged with criminal mischief as a juvenile delinquent.
  — Fox News, 29 July 2019
• Both teens will be facing charges of delinquent to wit, assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and delinquent to wit, joint venture.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2023
• Going back now would send a bad message to delinquents and criminals that there can be impunity.
  — Matthew Lee, The Seattle Times, 13 June 2017
• The people there — there are a group of athletes really determined to get back to Division I, to bounce back, and then a lot of delinquents who have been in trouble.
  — Adam Jude, The Seattle Times, 19 Sep. 2017
• But the Manchester kid turned teenage delinquent, then adult criminal (drugs, robberies, home invasion) and was sent to prison for 10 1/2 years.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 14 June 2021
• And then take a second to ask yourself: Who are the actual delinquents in this lazy, hazy, philosophical parable?
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2023
• Depp plays teen idol Wade Walker, aka Cry Baby, a juvenile delinquent who can cry a single dramatic tear and sing his heart out.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 15 Sep. 2023
• Most striking, the ordinary delinquents have killed 16 people since their release.
  — Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
• Caldwell and Van Rybroek have tracked the public records of 248 juvenile delinquents after their release.
  — Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
• Produced by the Slowtide company for the streamer, the show follows a juvenile delinquent who becomes a sumo apprentice.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 29 Mar. 2023
• The first to go are 100 juvenile delinquents that are considered expendable, some of whose parents are the leaders of the community.
  — Kelly Lawler, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2017
• The property must not be tax delinquent and cannot have received an Exterior Home Repair Grant in the previous year.
  — cleveland, 26 Jan. 2023
• And while City Hall plans to send hundreds of millions more to the district over the next five years, that revenue is tied to future city budget cuts and better collections from tax delinquents, both of which could fall short.
  — Philly.com, 1 July 2018
• In my view, the prompt and efficient pursuit of delinquencies is better than embarrassing the delinquent.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2023
• Still got a degree in criminal law at Penn State with the idea of helping juvenile delinquents when his football career ended.
  — Joe Kay, Cincinnati.com, 4 May 2018
• Steane, 22, shows up in two scenes as Pascal’s delinquent, on-the-lam son, who may or may not have murdered someone important to Hawke’s character, who has grown up to be a sad, repressed sheriff.
  — Vulture, 4 Oct. 2023
• Though Black still remains in custody, the state of Florida let him off the hook for the following charges: possession of a weapon or ammunition by a delinquent, grand theft of a firearm, and child neglect.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 22 Feb. 2018
• Sometimes, the social contract is made explicit, such as when a delinquent like Jolovan Wham mounts an unconscionable challenge to it.
  — The Economist, 17 Apr. 2021
• The city will have the ability to withhold certificates of compliance to landlords who are more than one year delinquent on their property taxes.
  — Perry A. Farrell, Detroit Free Press, 1 Feb. 2018

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delinquent

2 of 2 adjective

• The town is trying to collect delinquent taxes.
• His delinquent behavior could lead to more serious problems.
• Your delinquent balance would be added to the back end of your loan.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• Otherwise, the amount of the penalty is equal to 10% of the amount of delinquent taxes.
  — Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Apr. 2023
• But that consumer is 90 days delinquent four times a year.
  — D. Brian Blank, Fortune, 3 June 2023
• The most recent foreclosure of a delinquent loan on the property came in June 2023.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
• Or if people did have low credit or were delinquent on their loans ...
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 1 May 2022
• The loan became delinquent in October 2023, the county records show.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
• The deadline for property owners to pay their delinquent taxes or be placed on the tax sale list passed last month.
  — Washington Post, 1 May 2022
• Severely delinquent loans are more than 60 days past due and defaults are more than 90 days past due.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• The sole job of an RO is to collect delinquent taxes, and in some cases to secure unfiled tax returns.
  — Daniel J. Pilla, National Review, 16 Aug. 2023
• The share of credit card debt that became delinquent also increased.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2023
• Under the age of 29 and found guilty as a juvenile (14 years of age or older) of a delinquent act that would be a felony if committed by an adult.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2023
• Then he got picked up by a police officer in the Bronx for spraying graffiti on the outside wall of a bar with a delinquent pal.
  — Sydney Trent, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
• With the price of used cars soaring, dealers are no longer as patient and are cutting back on breaks to delinquent borrowers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
• Or does your credit profile reveal a track record of delinquent or late payments?
  — Mia Taylor, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
• The city had just announced its tax sale, the annual listing of properties with delinquent tax bills.
  — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2023
• That closely watched rate measures the percentage of loans that became 30 or more days delinquent.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
• If a borrower misses a payment by the due date, their loan becomes delinquent.
  — Time, 30 June 2023
• Friday was supposed to be the deadline for property owners to pay their delinquent taxes or be placed on the tax sale list.
  — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2022
• Despite these headwinds, the share of office mortgages that are delinquent remains low.
  — Konrad Putzier, WSJ, 5 July 2022
• In most cases, delinquent tax accounts are handled by ...
  — Daniel J. Pilla, National Review, 16 Aug. 2023
• The Fresh Start program also applies to borrowers who were delinquent prior to the payment pause.
  — Cora Lewis and Adriana Morga, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2023
• The agency then likely reports your delinquent account to the credit bureaus.
  — Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• Income caps also increase the share of loans forgiven that were delinquent prior to the pandemic to 60% from 34%.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2022
• How many people are delinquent on their credit card balances?
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
• The data shows there are 9,231 tax delinquent parcels that remain unsold throughout Lake County.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
• The county has not mailed any letters seeking delinquent payments yet this cycle.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2023
• In some cases, claims payments were at 120 days or more, with some so delinquent workers were being sent to collections.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
• And shortly after that, an Independence man bought his property in a delinquent tax sale.
  — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 2 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024