moneylender

Example Sentences

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Shocked by their beloved aunt’s death, they must come together for the raucous funeral to honor Cambotown’s biggest moneylender.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2023

In a sense you could see all of those pamphlets explaining the system as a way of saying, it's not just the moneylender who's responsible for all your woes.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2023

Research also suggests that clients were more likely than the average person to have been refused credit elsewhere before turning to an illegal moneylender.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2023

He remembers lines, too, that have been stored in his brain ever since — like the “Hath not a Jew eyes” speech, in which his character, the moneylender Shylock, asserts his own humanity.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2022

“Your mother cannot pay the moneylender back out of what she earns at Señor Aguilar’s hotel and feed and keep you all, too. You and your brother Salvador must help her.”

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty