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Example sentences for: debts
How can you use “debts” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
So of course he became a hired gun: He needed to pay his debts.
Mancy Mintie's Uncommon Good organization pays the school debts of attorneys and health-care workers dedicated to serving those less fortunate.
Also on the Davos forum, the Russian daily Sevodnya published an article Monday by Mikhail Berger, under the headline "No Recovery for Russia," saying that "Russia, unfortunately, lived up once again to its reputation as a country which has failed to build capitalism and does not pay its debts."
An WP inside piece reports on the indictment of 13 smugglers and pimps who brought hundreds of Asian girls--some as young as 13 years old-- to the U.S. as indentured servants and forced them to work as prostitutes until they repaid their debts.
But there is one big difference between dividends and debts, which is that if you fail to pay the first, your stock price gets punished, but the company stays in business--while if you fail to pay the second, the company goes under.