loan shark

Example Sentences

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By charging fees that would make a loan shark blush.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025

But this spring, with his wife in intensive care, he borrowed money from a loan shark to pay for taxis to visit the hospital, he said.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2023

Only a loan shark would dream of risking a dime on Ryan, as Keith would instantly have known.

From New York Times • May 2, 2022

It also doesn’t help that Rahim has a slippery past relationship with the truth: He omitted the fact that his original debt was to a loan shark, not a bank.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2022

So she started loaning out money—a loan shark.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi