How to Use out of business in a Sentence

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• The complaint seeks to strip the theater of its liquor license, a move that could put it out of business.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
• One of the boxes was from the bookseller Borders, which went out of business eleven years ago.
  — Stephen Witt, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• If Dapper Labs were to go out of business, the court argued, Moments would be worth next to nothing.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 24 Apr. 2023
• But the advent of on-demand service like Netflix pushed it out of business.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
• Private insurers began to struggle to pay their claims; some went out of business.
  — Ivan Penn, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• Tupperware may be potentially going out of business in 2023, but the colorful home goods brand is laughing all the way to the bank in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
  — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Apr. 2023
• When another company goes out of business or can’t afford to pay the bills, Job Lot will take product off the suppliers’ hands at a discount.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
• Worse, some families’ contracts have not been honored — the funeral home went out of business, or the money was mishandled.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
• Travelers thought the company was going out of business.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
• For example, some argue that SVB should have been allowed to fail — that the pain of the fallout would outweigh the downsides of customers losing their money and startups going out of business.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 16 Mar. 2023
• When Kimberly Ann's went out of business due to the coronavirus pandemic and the struggles that came with it, neighbors in downtown Glendale were heartbroken by the loss.
  — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• Those systems often undercut the pricing of purchasing alliances to drive them out of business.
  — Markian Hawryluk, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
• Brydge, a company that once aimed to make high-quality iPad keyboards that all but transformed them into MacBooks, has gone out of business.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
• The letter to the FTC also argues that the buying power of the grocery giant could drive small and medium-sized grocers out of business, and wages for staff could suffer in the merger’s restructuring.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 30 Nov. 2022
• That prompted warnings that the squeeze on an industry with dozens of fledgling brands might force smaller automakers into mergers or out of business.
  — Joe McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• The message delivered to the industry by Mr. Aspin was that many of the companies needed to disappear, by merging or going out of business.
  — Eric Lipton, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• Have a space that is yours, that belongs to you, a username and identity that can’t disappear just because a company goes out of business or sells to a megalomaniac.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 20 Apr. 2023
• Here’s the thing: A bankruptcy filing does not necessarily mean that a company is going out of business.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 24 Apr. 2023
• And Angus King is -- has said that reimposing the capital requirements, as your bill would do, to roll back that deregulatory move, could push small and medium size banks out of business.
  — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2023
• Riesman writes that McMahon waged a ruthless campaign to put rivals out of business and hold a monopoly on the wrestling entertainment industry.
  — Zack Ruskin, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
• The constant Covid testing and lockdowns have also pushed many service providers such as restaurants and travel agencies—which serve as major employers for young people—out of business.
  — Stella Yifan Xie, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
• Resorts may run up so much debt that they will eventually be forced to go out of business without having built viable long-term alternatives, researchers warn.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
• Could a proposal like this actually put private actors out of business?
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 23 May 2023
• The import business is so challenging in China that many companies operating in the area simply went out of business during the long three years of the pandemic, local film figures say.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
• When Woo is assassinated in his office by a gun-toting grade schooler (Henry Rhoades), the subsequent wave of bad press threatens to drive the already struggling company out of business.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• Companies that don’t generate cash will eventually go out of business.
  — Patrick Mullane, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Tuesday Morning last week selected Hilco as the successful bidder for more than 200 store locations that weren’t already designated as going out of business.
  — Akiko Matsuda, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2023
• With so many California producers going out of business, wholesale prices have started to recover.
  — Gene Johnson, Andrew Selsky, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2023
• The checkoff has been controversial at times, especially in years when dairy farmers were going out of business in droves while Dairy Management executives were collecting six and seven figure pay.
  — Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2022
• According to the Forest Service, the feral cattle problem dates back a half-century, when a cattle operation went out of business and subsequent grazing permits were suspended.
  — CBS News, 17 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024