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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In the absence of a last-minute buyer, the company will be fully liquidated.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2023
• The rate at which Bitcoin long leveraged positions – bets that the price would go up – were forced to liquidate during one record-setting hour on March 15.
  — Jen Wieczner, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2021
• Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the two, has since liquidated her holdings.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
• But when the last of the beer is sold, the company will switch from liquidating product to selling off its equipment and brewing supplies.
  — Tirion Morris, azcentral, 24 Mar. 2020
• The firm says crude stocks tend to decline at the end of the year as oil companies liquidate year-end inventories for tax purposes.
  — WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
• Only then does the government actually own the assets, and have the power to liquidate them.
  — New York Times, 8 May 2022
• Opening a new account only to liquidate it and close it as soon as possible is a huge waste of everyone’s time.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2021
• When a worker leaves a job and rolls over a 401(k) into an IRA, the investments are usually liquidated and the funds converted to cash or some cash equivalent.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024