bankrupt

Example Sentences

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Before Sisto began the process of consolidating the loans to make his monthly payments more manageable, he said he would wake up in the middle of the night wondering if he would go bankrupt.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

He was pilloried, and declared bankrupt more than once.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

"It's bankrupt. We didn't make it bankrupt, we inherited it," he said.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

The most memorable was Pets.com, which would quickly go public and then go bankrupt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

This alarmed the Nazi leaders, who worried that the damages would bankrupt the German insurance companies.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti