Sample Sentences for

bankrupt

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

He became bankrupt after his risky investments failed.

If we don't control spending, we'll go bankrupt.

"Not the greatest specimen," Mack says, "but I got her cheap from this bankrupt circus out west."  (source) Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan, 2012

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.  (source) Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream, 1963

Unfortunately for them, this didn't get them any money, as the United States was beyond bankruptcy.  (source) Kiera Cass, The Selection, 2012

I shouldn't like to think of poor Regina's spending the rest of her life in some shabby foreign watering-place for bankrupts.†  (source) Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, 1920

In their heyday, these retreats were so conducive to frank expressions of sentiment that if one were to eavesdrop at their tables for a month, one would be able to anticipate all of the bankruptcies, weddings, and wars of the year to come.†  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on.†  (source) Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953

He knocked me out of the game in the first five rounds and started bankrupting my morn and Paul.†  (source) Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth, 2008

Before you came, I was thinking about how much time I had wasted in the same place, while my friends had moved on, and either went bankrupt or did better than they had before.  (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

Even at the end, when International Genetic Technologies filed for Chapter 11 protection in United States Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco on October 5, 1989, the proceedings drew little press attention.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

Being answered in the affirmative, he said he was sorry for me, because it was an expensive undertaking, and the expense would be lost; for Philadelphia was a sinking place, the people already half-bankrupts, or near being so; all appearances to the contrary, such as new buildings and the rise of rents, being to his certain knowledge fallacious; for they were, in fact, among the things that would soon ruin us.†  (source) Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1791

But that which a man is, does always by necessity acquire, and what the man acquires is living property, which does not wait the beck of rulers, or mobs, or revolutions, or fire, or storm, or bankruptcies, but perpetually renews itself wherever the man breathes.†  (source) Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays, 1850