How to Use liquidate in a Sentence

liquidate

verb

• The owners were ordered to liquidate.
• The owners were ordered to liquidate the company and pay their creditors.
• The film is about a professional killer who's hired to liquidate a powerful businessman.
• The company is liquidating its assets.
• If the heirs want to liquidate the art, that is their choice.
  — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 6 Dec. 2020
• The camp was to be liquidated and all children would be sent to the gas chamber.
  — Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• See ya next week to watch Jen ask her mom to liquidate that 401(k) in the pursuit of freedom!
  — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2021
• New lenders could keep Town Center open, or try to liquidate the mall’s assets and close it.
  — Andy Peters, ajc, 28 Jan. 2021
• When the woman’s parent dies, the home has to be liquidated, and the boomers are evicted by the estate.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 June 2019
• Arte Moreno is indicted by the feds, is forced to liquidate the Angels to stay out of prison, and as a result Shohei goes to the Dodgers.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
• In a good portion of the cases, their hope is to one day liquidate the business and live off that pool of capital for the rest of their lives.
  — Bill Keen, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• When prices went down instead, their brokers called in their loans, and the traders were forced to liquidate assets to come up with the cash to repay those loans.
  — The Motley Fool, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2022
• And both could be forced to liquidate assets to come up with the cash to pay the IRS, eroding their alignment with shareholders.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 Oct. 2021
• In the case of Twitter, the acquirer, Musk, has to liquidate part of his huge Tesla holdings to pay for the deal (the rest will come from a consortium of banks).
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2022
• The company was forced to liquidate and sell its assets.
  — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
• To pass the climate stress tests, banks would have to liquidate fossil-fuel assets.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
• News was spreading that the Nazis, who had forced the city’s Jews into the ghetto a year earlier, were planning to liquidate it.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2021
• The bar owner hoped to liquidate his stock with passing truckers.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 24 June 2020
• Once the court proceedings are completed in the next four to six weeks, EBTH will be sold or liquidated.
  — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 9 July 2019
• He was reported to liquidate his assets such as his Hummer and house to pay off bills.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 17 Sep. 2024
• In 2020, the man died and a Utah accounting firm trying to liquidate the property sought an appraisal for the painting.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2024
• By the end of the day $643m-worth of bitcoin contracts had been liquidated on BitMEX, a platform on which such contracts trade.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
• An estate sale is a way to liquidate the belongings of a household when a certain life event warrants it.
  — Elizabeth W. Cook, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2021
• As the older members of the group liquidate their collections, Lopez has taken much of it to display in her basement.
  — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
• The shareholders have enormous incentive to approve the deal because if the merger fails, the blank-check firm would be forced to liquidate.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
• The bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate their holdings.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 15 Mar. 2021
• But shoe fashion was fickle, and in 1979 his shop was liquidated.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2019
• In the absence of a last-minute buyer, the company will be fully liquidated.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2023
• The store has been vacant since parent company Bon-Ton Stores Inc. was liquidated in 2018.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2024
• The format centered on selling off slower-moving items or those being liquidated and first surfaced in the 1960s.
  — David Moin, WWD, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024