How to Use creditor in a Sentence

creditor

noun
  • She owes thousands of dollars to creditors.
  • Take the extra step to give the creditor a call and confirm the amount due.
    — Juan Carlos Medina, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
  • At the end of the day, what the creditor ends up with is a lien on that interest.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • In one year, the estate creditor must make a claim to the losses.
    — Russel Morgan, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • The creditor groups involved in the deal hold more than $11 billion worth of bonds.
    — DÁnica Coto, Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Once the case is in court, creditors who say they're owed money can then seek a piece of the assets.
    — CBS News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • In some cases, your creditors may even take you to court.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The creditors and attorneys are then paid, and the children get what’s left.
    — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2023
  • All the debtors’ creditors are expected to be paid in full.
    — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 14 Feb. 2020
  • By that point, more than a hundred creditors had lined up.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • By then, Whistler was deep in debt, with Leyland his main creditor.
    — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2022
  • These sales are often done for a fraction of the amount owed so the creditor can recover some of the money.
    — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The largest creditor is Solomon Management, the same Solomons who sold the surplus to Ariniello.
    — oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2020
  • This includes the name and mailing information of the debt collector, the name of the creditor and the debt amount.
    — Cheryl Winokur Munk, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
  • While creditors weren’t seeking a wind-up order, Judge Chan noted the lack of progress.
    — TIME, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Kent said the city’s fate could depend on how its financial status is viewed by the county, the state and the city’s creditors.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2025
  • That means a creditor cannot force sale of the homestead to pay general debts of Dan’s estate.
    — Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2021
  • The global icon owed money to more than 65 creditors during the time of his passing.
    — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 28 June 2024
  • This means a creditor can’t prevail in court after four years have passed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2021
  • On top of that, your creditor may charge their own processing fee.
    — Sarah Brady, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Lawyers for the firm’s creditors argued that Fisker should have filed for bankruptcy late last year.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 30 June 2024
  • But that is a decision that creditors have to make all the time: Is the judgment worth pursuing.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • That means the creditor can only receive any distributions that would be made by the LLC to the member.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 2 July 2023
  • For both of these hindrances to building credit scores, talking to creditors is a good first step.
    — Nerdwallet, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
  • And can a creditor or debt collector seize them from a bank account?
    — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Every dollar in fees is deducted from the pool of funds that will be returned to creditors at the end of the bankruptcies.
    — Yiwen Lu, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • All this even as Cred’s customers and creditors go unpaid.
    — Jessica Klein, Fortune, 6 July 2023
  • Unsecured creditors — such as the Ledgerwoods — are paid if there are funds left over.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 6 May 2024
  • If you’re denied, know that creditors are required by law to explain the reason.
    — Bianca Rodríguez Rojas, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025
  • To add insult to injury, a Sackler defense fund would be set up for the benefit of the Sacklers that would be funded by creditors!
    — Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025

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