Example sentences for: collateral

How can you use “collateral” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 5 million by Japanese industrialist Ryoei Saito, reportedly was sold off to satisfy creditors after Saito's death--said that "Van Gogh, the artistic genius, has been reduced to the status of mere collateral."

  • However, at the organizations we studied, as at federal agencies, security is often a collateral duty, rather than a full-time job, and the individuals assigned frequently have limited technical expertise.

  • Coordinators will also record mortality and history of cause of death from collateral sources.

  • The "help" refers to the $1.35 million in collateral President Clinton's chief fund-raiser, Terry McAuliffe, put up to secure the house loan.

  • While acknowledging Hussein's misdeeds--attacking Israel in 1967, hosting Palestinian terrorists over the years, and siding with Iraq in the Persian Gulf War--editorialists lavished excuses on him: He feared a Palestinian revolt if he didn't attack Israel in 1967, atoned for the 1967 war by sitting out the 1973 war against Israel, and allied himself with Iraq in 1991 because he feared an Iraqi invasion or collateral economic damage from the war against Iraq.


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