Example sentences for: debt

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

  • The interest rate on the national debt is held constant, for example, even when deficits climb and the national saving rate plummets.

  • In an editorial titled "The Debt of Slavery," Le Monde of Paris said Monday that Europe and the United States should do more than just apologize to Africans for the terrible damage done to them over a period of 250 years.

  • Saving some portion of the projected budget surpluses would allow the federal government to reduce the overhang of federal debt built over decades of deficit spending.

  • The (mostly non-Russian) institutions that had purchased the country's debt now find themselves, says the NYT , holding only 10 percent of the value they had last week.

  • The 47-page report, "From Paper Chase to Money Chase: Law School Debt Diverts Road to Public Service," was sponsored by the Partnership for Public Service, Equal Justice Works and the National Association for Law Placement.


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