How to Use loan shark in a Sentence

loan shark

noun

• Word on the street was that the owner got in over his head to a local loan shark and fled town.
  — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• When times get tough, Levi asks for help from a ruthless loan shark.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 27 Dec. 2022
• The twins learn that their grandpa is being hunted by a loan shark.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 22 Dec. 2023
• Three Irish wiseguys, looking to go on their own as loan sharks, need cash to get started.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2019
• Uncut Gems is a plunge into a gritty city of grifters and loan sharks.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Dec. 2019
• Woo plays a promising boxer whose mother is in debt to a loan shark.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
• Elisha Cuthbert co-stars as his wife and Mel Gibson is a shady loan shark.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2022
• Based on a Naver webtoon of the same name, this action thriller revolves around two young boxers who enter the world of loan sharks.
  — Time, 14 June 2023
• Black people were blocked from the banking system whites take for granted, and forced to turn to payday loan sharks.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 29 May 2020
• What kind of predatory loan shark of a dealer—25 percent every day?
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 6 Feb. 2018
• Only a loan shark would dream of risking a dime on Ryan, as Keith would instantly have known.
  — New York Times, 2 May 2022
• That father became the bottom layer of Rocky Balboa: the fact that Rocky worked for a loan shark and broke people’s arms for a living.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
• Bifield and the Angels were accused of acting as collection agents for Mafia loan sharks.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• Uncle Sam isn't cutting taxes, just taking on a quirky role as a loan shark who fronts you the money but expects to get paid back soon.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2020
• Their old castmate Monterrey Jack has crossed the wrong loan shark, and Chip and Dale decide to bury their decades-old feud to do some rescuing and rangering.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022
• Recently, one of my patients borrowed money from a loan shark just to get a private taxi to the hospital.
  — Zolelwa Sifumba, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2020
• When the handover goes terribly wrong, Budge finds himself in a race against the clock to get a hold of his missing product and find a new buyer before the loan shark tracks him down.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 4 Nov. 2021
• When the loan shark ends up dead and a witness spotted someone in Eva’s checkered coat leaving the scene of the crime, Jessica has to prove her friend’s innocence.
  — Emma Rubin, Vulture, 21 June 2021
• The owner of a popular barbershop considers selling the place to a loan shark who wants to convert it into a strip club.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• Meanwhile, the loan shark in Caracas is pressuring Mr. Milano.
  — Andrew Silverstein, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Because of these limits, banks kept interest rates between 6 and 12 percent and didn’t do much business with the poor, who in a pinch took their valuables to the pawnbroker or the loan shark.
  — Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• Howard’s plan is to sell off the opal immediately to get a loan shark—played, with menacing oiliness, by Eric Bogosian—off his tail.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 Dec. 2019
• There have been whispers of loan sharks and mafia connections and Continent -wide arrest warrants.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
• Then as now, people hunkered over the soil and used their hands, earning too little to feed their families, forcing many households to borrow from loan sharks.
  — Peter S. Goodman Jes Aznar, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• In recent years, a series of reports emerged about loan sharks who forced female students to send nude selfies as collateral.
  — Jane Li, Quartz, 23 Sep. 2019
• Activists claim gangs prey on the high unemployment rate among young Arab-Israeli men, acting as loan sharks, and force shop keepers and others to pay protection fees.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 8 Sep. 2023
• His own publicist claimed the boxer worked a side job as a bill collector (i.e., leg breaker) for a Las Vegas loan shark operation.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2022
• Enslaved by a loan shark, a violent fighter escapes and meets a blind man who teaches him humanity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
• Later, a loan shark named Sykes plots a kidnapping, which the animals dramatically try to foil.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• Despite starting off as opponents, the two end up working together in a quest to exact justice against rich and powerful loan sharks.
  — Time, 14 June 2023

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024