Example sentences for: delinquent

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

  • Penalties on delinquent taxes are therefore a nonexchange revenue.

  • Understaffing and the IRS's interpretation of new (1997 and 1998) Congressional rules to mean the agency must collect all back taxes from a delinquent taxpayer or none, rather than negotiating a payment schedule, get a lot of the blame for the IRS mess.

  • The juvenile delinquent in the brood smoked for 12 years before he died in an accident at the age of 26.

  • Often used to refer to accounts more than 90 days delinquent.

  • Today, that army's delinquent stepchild, the Russian army, is fighting a city battle of its own.


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