bankrupt

Example Sentences

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Another mall owner, General Growth Properties, bought Rouse in a $12.6 billion acquisition financed almost entirely by debt and later went bankrupt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Complications arose when my employer went bankrupt and was acquired by a new company.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

Another Nobel laureate, William Faulkner, set his novels in the post-Civil War South, but Depression-era readers could identify with the bankrupt economy, the impoverishment of farmers and the political disruption, Conn says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

"Worcestershire, I have to say, we took minority control of a virtually bankrupt council, I wish we hadn't bothered," he said.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

It was written when Augustus had taken over the bankrupt Roman world after the chaos that followed Caesar’s assassination.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton