How to Use indebtedness in a Sentence

indebtedness

noun

• Slow growth and rising indebtedness used to be the kind of thing that would put a chill on the markets.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2020
• Yet, the new ways Ice plays with her voice and delivery on Y2K are a welcome indebtedness to the queen.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
• But most signs are that this was caused by a global cash crunch, not fears of rising indebtedness by the United States.
  — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020
• Without a raise in the ceiling, the Treasury won’t be able to issue new indebtedness.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• Monetary policy will be eased, if not as sharply as in the past, and some of the progress on indebtedness will be undone.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 20 July 2018
• Household indebtedness does not stop with these formal forms of debt.
  — Christian Weller, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
• There are notes of indebtedness, memos to merchants, and a reckoning of an account for beer.
  — Charlotte Higgins, The New Yorker, 1 May 2017
• New Zealand’s indebtedness, however, will at its peak still be low compared with countries such as Japan and the U.S.
  — Stephen Wright, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2020
• No one is arguing that the gift won’t do enormous good in lowering the indebtedness of all students — rich, middle-class and poor.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2021
• That also was the last time that Chinese indebtedness actually fell on the year.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 26 June 2019
• That means African indebtedness is starting to be a real problem.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 12 Sep. 2022
• The trader is selling units to shore up its finances after posting a $1.75 billion loss in the second quarter amid a surge in indebtedness.
  — Jasmine Ng, Bloomberg.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• The pandemic had pushed up total indebtedness of the countries to a 50-year high, or the equivalent of more than 2.5 times government revenues.
  — Yuka Hayashi, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
• An remarkable facet of the rise of indebtedness is that it is correlated with other ‘crises’.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
• Negative indebtedness is the feeling of obligation to return the favor, to pay a debt.
  — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
• The accounts provide a marked contrast to the legacy of indebtedness that is emerging in families with fewer means.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• Therefore, this crisis will at best sink millions of people further into indebtedness or force them to beg, loot or starve.
  — Aroop Chatterjee, Quartz Africa, 30 Apr. 2020
• Despite the rising indebtedness of the United States, most investors still regard Treasury bonds as a safe asset.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2020
• For instance, if your future mother-in-law has always been known to have the last word, give the last gift, or do things that absolve her own feelings of indebtedness, then this behavior isn’t about you.
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
• Both expressed, in a single breath, gratitude to their parents, who made the decision to emigrate, and a sense of indebtedness to the United States for giving them a haven.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2019
• The use of over-indebtedness as a way to grow a business is fundamentally a kind of speculation and greed that the authorities want to end, Lundy said.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
• Fuerst also noted that many UConn students graduate on time, which keeps down costs and indebtedness.
  — Erica E. Phillips, Hartford Courant, 22 July 2022
• This whirlwind of indebtedness is a part of a larger system that ties most Americans to creditors.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 28 Oct. 2021
• Among families of color, the loan is much more common — and those families are more likely to be dragged into indebtedness.
  — USA TODAY, 26 June 2019
• The company is racing to reduce its debt load in the face of rapidly falling prices that have increased its relative indebtedness.
  — Jack Sidders, Fortune Europe, 12 Mar. 2024
• The initiative’s investments have since slowed as Chinese growth falters, the United States pushes back and countries question the indebtedness the projects brought.
  — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• The Reserve Bank recently announced that Australia’s household debt-to-income ratio had reached an all-time high of 190 percent — one of the highest levels of indebtedness in the world.
  — Rod McGuirk, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• But the pure weirdness of Valadon’s vision, the way a foot seems to summon a carpet to life, or a still life bubbles over into quasi-abstraction, erases any sense of indebtedness to others.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
• In that event, Biden will argue that Congress can’t limit indebtedness because that conflicts with the Fourteenth Amendment.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• Wisconsin ranked 23rd for student loan indebtedness and 26th for student work opportunities.
  — Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024