How to Use foreclosure in a Sentence

foreclosure

noun
  • At the time of the foreclosure, the GBTC shares traded for $9.20 each.
    Nina Bambysheva, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Now, with the house in foreclosure, someone called the city to check on her.
    Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Records showed their home was in foreclosure and the couple owed more than $1,700 to the bank.
    Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 20 May 2021
  • And Sylvia bought the studio out of foreclosure and gave it to us as part of our record deal.
    Delisa Shannon, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
  • In fact, the couple had lost their home to foreclosure and would be forced to move out.
    Jamie Yuccas, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The Aberdeen home, built in 1960, is facing the threat of foreclosure.
    Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2023
  • The threat of foreclosure should be the last thing on the minds of survivors of these disasters.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Homes that were in foreclosure prior to the pandemic will be the first to go through the process.
    Miriam Moore, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • If so, not paying the golf club dues can lead to foreclosure.
    Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Brien sold the windows as bills mounted and the house neared foreclosure.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The Cliftons’ loss of their home to foreclosure in 1980 was a traumatic event.
    Marina Magloire, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 May 2021
  • But for owners who cannot pay the growing cost, the tax sale can lead to foreclosure.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Since then, the group has fought back with road shows and foreclosure of loans to try and soothe nervous investors.
    Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Englanoff has made an offer to pay off Hankey’s debt in that amount to end the foreclosure process.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The man who had just lost his home to foreclosure now had enough money to help his friends with their mortgages.
    William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Failing to pay, in the worst case scenario, could have led to lawsuits and foreclosures.
    Michael Kranish, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • That would wipe out all the other lenders, who would have their liens against the property erased by the foreclosure.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The building was last used as a church before the city acquired it through tax foreclosure in 2016.
    Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Court records show there was a foreclosure on the property.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The first is in the case of a foreclosure, where a property becomes abandoned.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Borrowers who signed up at the start of the program could face foreclosure by March.
    Alexandre Tanzi, Bloomberg.com, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Due to a family dispute, the house was lost to foreclosure.
    Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The bank went ahead, getting a court order for foreclosure on portions of the parcels a few days later.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Besides being unfair, Baldwin said the HOA went about the foreclosure process in the wrong way.
    Nora O’Neill, Charlotte Observer, 13 Jan. 2025
  • In other words, should the loan default, what would the property fetch in a foreclosure?
    Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The property, which was held in a trust, was also in tax foreclosure.
    oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The family has filed a series of lawsuits to stop the foreclosure.
    Fox News, 17 Dec. 2020
  • In 1996, the bank that held the loan for the big Crossroads overhaul threatened foreclosure — twice — before taking over the mall.
    René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • By keeping the bar high, Yager says, his organization has kept its foreclosure rate at around 2%.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The goals of the fund are to help reduce homeowner foreclosures and stabilize neighborhoods.
    Camila Alvayay Torrejon, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2025

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