How to Use loan in a Sentence

loan

1 of 2 noun

• He got a car loan.
• He'll need several more years to pay off the rest of the loan.
• She needed money, so she asked her friend for a loan.
• If one spouse takes out a loan to go to school, the debt can be considered joint.
  — Alexandra Peers, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
• Those are the aspects of the Sanford-Brown program that Causey said drew her to enroll — and take out loans.
  — Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2024
• For reference, the cost to originate a mortgage loan is about 0.5% to 1% of the total loan amount.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2023
• Perhaps the loans, much like Schrödinger’s cat, might be both fake and real at the same time, if the money came in at some point after March 2022.
  — Grace Ashford, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• Mulberry will receive a $7.5 million loan from the same fund.
  — Samantha Lacicero, arkansasonline.com, 7 Mar. 2024
• Paul was charged with eight counts of making false statements while seeking loans from mortgage lenders in the U.S. and Ireland.
  — Jake Bleiberg and Paul J. Weber, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
• The infusion is not a loan as such but will shore up the reserves and remain with Pakistan's central bank for at least a year.
  — Saudi Arabia, Fox News, 11 July 2023
• Pell grants are given to low-income students that do not need to be repaid, unlike a loan.
  — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2023
• How does this impact current loans the city already has?
  — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2023
• Yet the injury also hastened his return to LAFC on a loan that includes an option to buy.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• That saves money in interest over the life of the loan, but a shorter term also serves to raise monthly payments.
  — Jim Henry, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Some investors want more stakes and shares, others want to offer loans or credit instead of cash.
  — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
• Rates for credit cards, adjustable-rate mortgages, auto and other loans are now poised to climb again.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
• Ohl said many renters are likely to face higher interest rates with credit cards and car loans.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
• Singh did grant some of Trump's requests, including pausing a three-year ban on him seeking loans from New York banks.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 19 Mar. 2024
• Think of a preapproval letter as a solid endorsement of your ability to meet the requirements of the loan.
  — Cameron Sullivan, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
• The spreadsheet also factored in payments for my college loans.
  — TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
• These cost savings enable our students to choose jobs of interest to them, not what best repays their loans.
  — Foreign Affairs, 7 July 2023
• Millions of borrowers have had their loans transferred to new servicers.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2023
• Before Fitch’s statement, the United States paid a 4 percent interest rate on 10-year loans, Zagorsky said.
  — Vivi Smilgius, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• Degrees that don't produce income to repay the loan should either cost less or not be eligible for the loan.
  — Mike Scott, Arkansas Online, 11 July 2023
• Instead, the Fed would be expected to cut rates, which would make consumer and business loans more affordable.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2024
• But a special servicer takes over in case of imminent default and is the only one that can modify such loans.
  — Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2023
• The men repaid loans and previous investors with money from new investors, court records show.
  — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 7 Mar. 2024
• Rates are high enough to meaningfully slow the economy and quell demand for all kinds of loans and investments.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• The collateral for such a large loan would be significant: The film rights to ten of Marvel’s characters.
  — Joanna Robinson, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2023
• For a loan, banks often want to see a track record of property investment, which is hard for a newer nonprofit.
  — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023

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loan

2 of 2 verb

• His mother loaned him the money to buy a new car.
• Can you loan me $20?
• The National Gallery has been kind enough to loan this painting to our museum.
• So that person can mandate the trustee to loan funds to you.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• He was loaned out to Portland for the second half of the 2008 season.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
• Some of the partners would loan money to the firm -- but Alex never did this.
  — Fox News, 7 Feb. 2023
• Maybe the Tigers need to loan out Greene to the other struggling pro franchises in the city?
  — Andrew Hammond, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2022
• Some of them have to pay back the money they were loaned to come to America.
  — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• Lenders then browse people’s needs and choose to loan as little as $25.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
• Musk could also go to court to force the banks to honor their agreement and loan him the money.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
• The Dreschers called a friend who lived in the area to tell them about the sale; two weeks later, the acquaintance offered to loan them the down payment.
  — Moira Donovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2022
• Patinkin went on to explain that his yoga teacher loaned him the edgy outfit.
  — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2023
• Due to supply-chain issues, though, G. Loomis only had the 10-foot model to loan us for our test.
  — Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 3 Aug. 2023
• Within an hour, someone in D.C. who supports the Ukrainian fight showed up at her place to loan her a car.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• The first few times she’d been stuck at work, her co-workers had offered to loan her money or even drive her home.
  — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2022
• That limits the amount of money banks can loan out, however.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
• For more than 50 years, China has loaned giant pandas to US zoos.
  — CNN, 9 Nov. 2023
• Barbeau then set traps the wildlife department loaned her, near her back patio and garage.
  — Austindedios, oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2023
• Greek museums, meanwhile, will loan Cycladic works to the Met.
  — Colin Moynihan, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
• Sensing his potential, his boss at the flower shop loaned him $6,000 to open a flower shop of his own.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2024
• Could loan or grants send more students down a medical path?
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Feb. 2022
• The Thorns loaned her to Lyon in 2022, and allowed her permanent transfer to the team in France’s top division in June.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2023
• LaCour loaned her daughter his cell phone and stayed with her until Perkins arrived with a spare key.
  — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• Some were held back after being deemed too fragile to transport or couldn’t be loaned out.
  — Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• Radios are available to loan out if your vehicle does not have FM.
  — Paula Wethington, Detroit Free Press, 14 May 2022
• The mask itself, though, was absent, because its guardians at the British Museum had refused to loan it.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2022
• Koeltl asked Gratz as a tense pushback to IA’s stance that this particular case is just about a library’s right to loan out books.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2023
• The Memorial Scrolls Trust was established soon after to preserve the Torahs and loan them to synagogues around the world.
  — Steve Maas, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022
• Plus, the hotel is happy to loan you coolers, towels, and beach chairs for your excursions.
  — Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2022
• Banks make money by loaning out their clients' deposits.
  — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024