covenant

Example Sentences

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In 2020, pandemic-era covenant suspensions created the conditions for distressed companies to scrutinize their loan documents, uncovering the “liability management loopholes” that have defined the years that followed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Home builders and buyers swore a covenant to never again favor the use value of a home over its exchange value — and to keep resale value in their hearts.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2025

When these sentences are handed down, they form a covenant between the State and the victims, and their family and their friends.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2025

Carter and those around him hoped that the accords would eventually pave the way to a wider regional peace, centered on a covenant between Israel and the Palestinians.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2025

From the Pilgrims to the founders of the United States and continuing to the present day, the idea of a covenant involving people and God has persisted.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz