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• A costly medical condition can bankrupt you if it doesn't kill you first.From the entry medical
• It's all up with him: he's bankrupt and has lost his family.From the entry all up with
• In France, syndics are appointed by the creditors of a bankrupt to manage the property.From the entry syndic
• The bus company was going bankrupt because their ridership was too small.From the entry ridership
• The company hemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.From the entry hemorrhage
• The company haemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.From the entry haemorrhage
• There are rumors going around that the company is bankrupt.From the entry around
• The creditor took legal action against the bankrupt company.From the entry creditor
• The head-in-the-sand approach to economic problems frequently bankrupts companies.From the entry head-in-the-sand
• The ruinously high interest we agreed to will bankrupt us in a year if the economy doesn't improve quickly.From the entry ruinously
• Shareholders took a bath when the company went bankrupt.From the entry take a bath
• Several thousand companies go bankrupt in the UK each year.From the entry go bankrupt
• She mismanaged my finances and left me bankrupt.From the entry mismanage
• With her company going bankrupt, her divorce, and a gambling habit, debts started to accumulate so she had to sell her house.From the entry accumulate
• Six years ago, I inherited a Labour Party that was politically, financially and morally bankrupt.2026 June 22, Keir Starmer, resignation speech. From the entry finished
• Stock markets crash, businesses go bankrupt, and 9-to-5s can disappear from layoffs and downsizing.2009, Scott Brown, Treat Your Poker Like a Business, page 101. From the entry nine to five
• Moving crew and materials to this location bankrupted most of the backers.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Stations: Gagarin Station Codex entry. From the entry astronomical unit
• If they were, we would have a theory just as explanatorily bankrupt as disjunctivism.2007 July 10, Jeffrey Dunn, “The obscure act of perception”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 139, number 3, →DOI. From the entry explanatorily
• I can’t imagine SNK as a major giant anywhere, if they were, why’d they go bankrupt?2006 April 12, SRK Forums. From the entry capcom
• Superpredators theoretically arise from dysfunctional homes, inadequate schools, and morally bankrupt communities.2005, Gus Martin, Juvenile justice: process and systems. From the entry superpredator
• Well-meaning engineers and project leaders try to bankrupt the company, while I try to sabotage their programs.2000, Rick Fleeter, The Logic of Microspace, page 291. From the entry Dilbertian
• CATHERINE: With the pace we've set it'll still be months before the mill's bankrupt.1989, Mark Frost, David Lynch, Twin Peaks (television screenplay: episode 1). From the entry knothead
• When man is morally bankrupt, he seeks something to live by and is ripe for Communist conversion.1962, United States Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates, U.S. Government Printing Office, page A3202. From the entry morally bankrupt
• The bankrupts must have a good deal of the values remaining in their hands.1908, American bankruptcy reports - Volume 18, page 205. From the entry full-handed
• Subtweeting, vagueblogging, saying that The CW is instituting a program that is esoteric, abstruse, and worse, morally bankrupt."2015 December 7, Brook Becker, “New sexual health course based on relationships in Gossip Girl”, in The Collegian, University of Tulsa…. From the entry vagueblog
• When Imagine Software went bankrupt some of the talent from the company formed a new software house, Psygnosis.2013, Matt Fox, The Video Games Guide. From the entry software house
• "Without China, I'd be bankrupt," said Feng Wen-bing, a Taiwanese who co-owns a $10 million electronics firm in Wujiang, near Shanghai.2001 April 28, John Pomfret, “Taiwan Has an Outbreak of Shanghai Fever”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry Wujiang
• Soviet Union collapsed because it went bankrupt due to placing more importance on emphasis on military spending than economic investment.1995 July 5, Michael R Swanson, “Creating a New Civilization (fwd)”, in bit.listserv.geodesic (Usenet). From the entry killingry
• If I don′t move the team I go bankrupt.1993, Roger Kahn, The Era: 1947-1957, When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World, page 342. From the entry pally
• As a result, large numbers of peasants have gone bankrupt.[1978 February 15, “Taiwan Workers Ill-Treated by Government”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 32, Foreign…. From the entry Daan
• Some cities are born bankrupt because of maltaxation.1975 October 24, The Ubyssey, page 4, column 2. From the entry maltaxation
• “Lot of bleeding socialists, they been and bankrupted their economy building a school for forty kids at Brighton.1967 November 22, “Kent/Sussex Border Dispute Flares Up: Wessex Offers to Mediate”, in Punch, page 784. From the entry Sussexer
• Three hundred and ninety-two builders bankrupt last year, with the company promoters only trotting after us with one hundred and sixty-five!1967, Patrick Campbell, “Build Up to Bankruptcy”, in A Bunch of New Roses, Anthony Blond, page 201. From the entry only trotting after
• When man loses the simple faith of his childhood, belief in home, family, and God, he is morally bankrupt.1962, United States Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates, U.S. Government Printing Office, page A3202. From the entry morally bankrupt
• So the toggler was pushed into the stationery cupboard, where it remained until the company went bankrupt a few years later.1961, The Manager - Volume 29, page 665. From the entry toggler
• Fortunately — very fortunately — the American people have a happy alternative to this bankrupt Republican campaign and its captive candidate.1952, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, page 807. From the entry fortunately

Meaning of bankrupt

1. adjective In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.
2. adjective Destitute of, or wholly lacking a good quality, value, etc. one should possess or once possessed.
3. verb To force into bankruptcy.

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Questions about bankrupt in a sentence

How do you use bankrupt in a sentence?

Bankrupt is used as an adjective, verb and noun. For example: “A costly medical condition can bankrupt you if it doesn't kill you first.”

What is a short sentence with bankrupt?

“a bankrupt merchant”

What does bankrupt mean?

Bankrupt means in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.