How to Use bankrupt in a Sentence

bankrupt

1 of 2 adjective
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  • The lawsuit could leave them bankrupt.
  • Three years later she’d be found dead in the courtyard of their home, and by 1997 the business was bankrupt.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Topcraft went bankrupt in 1985 after the release of the film, and the company dissolved.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The result was no oversight for the bankrupt crypto exchange.
    — Vicky Ge Huang, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The tech bubble soon burst, and three years later, Network Plus went bankrupt.
    — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has been convicted on all of the seven counts on which he was tried.
    — WIRED, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Fishermen lost their homes and went bankrupt while the cases crawled through the legal system.
    — Lois Parshley, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Kline has spent more than a decade depicting the United States as bankrupt, hopeless, doomed.
    — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • If our district goes bankrupt, our students aren’t going to do well.
    — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The Fed wasn’t at zero when Apple nearly went bankrupt in the late 1990s, but rates were surely falling.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The takeover was familiar: Dundon had been the controlling owner of a pro football league, the A.A.F., which went bankrupt in 2019.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • The industry has merely been relieved of Mr. Bankman-Fried, a bankrupt in an ill-fitting T-shirt.
    — WSJ, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Overstock acquired the bankrupt brand back in June, and now, the two brands have been merged into one online shopping platform.
    — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 3 Sep. 2023
  • So, like a lot of visitors to Sin City, the Patriots came home feeling a little bankrupt.
    — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
  • As the price shot up, short sellers lost big, and some prominent investment funds went bankrupt over the ordeal.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Case in point: Cano Health, a company once valued at $4.4 billion, is now bankrupt.
    — Tara Bannow, STAT, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The diagnosis also makes somebody more than two and a half times more likely to go bankrupt.
    — WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Damages were awarded by a court, but he was declared bankrupt in 2007, after failing to pay.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The now bankrupt company was one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges.
    — Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 20 July 2023
  • Virgin Orbit has set a deadline of May 14 for bids on its business, the bankrupt rocket-maker said in a court filing this week.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The sudden grounding of the bankrupt low-cost carrier GoFirst is fueling air ticket prices in the country.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 2 June 2023
  • Efforts have fizzled over the years to revive the Starlight Bowl, which has been dormant since the organization that ran it went bankrupt 12 years ago.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Norwegian killed off its long-haul routes during the pandemic, while Wow Air went bankrupt in 2019.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Despite the accomplishments of its early years, Pan Am went bankrupt in 1991.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Read each exchange’s user terms and agreements carefully to learn more about where your funds are kept and what happens to your money in the event that the exchange goes bankrupt.
    — Ivana Pino, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Albertsons later bought back 33 of those stores from the bankrupt company.
    — Jordyn Holman, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • There’s a growing fear that the company might go bankrupt, as Musk himself suggested last week.
    — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The company is bankrupt, and Mr. Singh and Ms. Ellison, both 28, have pleaded guilty to fraud and testified in court against their onetime friend.
    — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Her wind and hail insurer went bankrupt, causing the state guarantor to take over claims, gumming up an already slow process.
    — New York Times, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Suddenly, Nash found herself alone, bankrupt, and abandoned by a community that had once put her on a pedestal.
    — Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 22 Nov. 2022
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bankrupt

2 of 2 verb
  • Several risky deals bankrupted the company.
  • At the end of the day, these lawsuits may bankrupt the Sneads.
    — Marlena Baldacci and Ralph Ellis, CNN, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Over the next two weeks, her own players will bankrupt her.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2022
  • This is the type of thing that could bankrupt the company quick.
    — Fox News, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Are there any good all-in-one printers that won’t bankrupt me?
    — Daniel Varghese, WSJ, 30 May 2023
  • The bankrupted victim in that case later took his own life.
    — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 July 2018
  • The National Review warned the plan would bankrupt the city.
    — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Eliot Spitzer, who has not been heard from in a little while, promised that any holdouts would be bankrupted.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Is the future incidence of T2d a threat to bankrupt our health care system?
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The judge awarded the damages jointly against all of the defendants, so the action has a good shot at bankrupting all three of them.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2020
  • Young also says the idea will not be a handout in a city where getting around can bankrupt those trying to make ends meet.
    — USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2020
  • This would not only decimate school funding but would bankrupt the state and end the PFD for good.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The purpose seems to bankrupt RBC and leave its 600 journalists jobless.
    — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • If the city loses again on appeal, that could bankrupt the city, Fouts said in his veto message.
    — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 10 Dec. 2020
  • But is this worth closing mom-and-pop places, bankrupting small businesses?
    — Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2020
  • But the risk of creating bubbles that could bankrupt untold numbers of people is the same.
    — The Editors, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2022
  • In 2005, a wave of lawsuits threatened to bankrupt the gun industry.
    — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 18 Sep. 2019
  • If this guy doesn’t bankrupt this country, it can never be bankrupted.
    — Chicago Tribune, Lake County News-Sun, 10 June 2019
  • An elegant hand — all ones and nines (akin to the aces and kings in a deck of cards), a flush of chi, a pong of every wind — is liable to bankrupt one’s opponents.
    — Rudy Lee, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Try it all out—without bankrupting yourself—and then stick with whatever works for you.
    — Brennan Kilbane, GQ, 16 May 2018
  • Or even bankrupt a business that fails to achieve relevance.
    — Paul Talbot, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The police and fire contracts, long unchallenged, would bankrupt the city within a few decades.
    — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
  • That means that an accident or illness could still bankrupt you.
    — Liz Weston, latimes.com, 17 June 2018
  • While ride-share use has gone up, taxi use has plummeted, along with the value of taxi medallions, bankrupting some owners.
    — Mary Wisniewski, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • After its last series of civil wars, (the board) adopted bylaws that are bankrupting it.
    — Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Even still, Fox could likely absorb a sum in the billions without bankrupting its business.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
  • So is the threat that unionization would bankrupt the company.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The losses bankrupted some insurers and caused most national carriers to pull out of the state.
    — Ivan Penn, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • Not so for your typical startup, however, which might be bankrupted by the cost.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2018
  • The host of the health fair tried to kick the group out, but Mr. Morantz told her the Scientologists would probably bankrupt her in litigation.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022

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