mortgage

in a sentence

We're waiting for the mortgage to be approved.  (source) Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, 2017

He saw himself as a muckraking gadfly and had mortgaged his brownstone five times to keep The Phoenix going.  (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

The Methodists were trying to pay off their church mortgage, and had challenged the Baptists to a game of touch football.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

And when we bought the house, we agreed that I should pay only a percentage of the mortgage based on what I earn and what he earns, and that I should own an equivalent percentage of community property; this is written in our prenuptial agreement.  (source) Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, 1989

But to ask ownership is like you shall own the meeting house itself; the last meeting I were at you spoke so long on deeds and mortgages I thought it were an auction.  (source) Arthur Miller, The Crucible, 1953

It's mortgaged up to the hilt.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

Its fragile economy, a life of splendor based on the perennial mortgaging of the next year's crop, was in his hands alone.†  (source) Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire, 1976

The merchant who says: "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: "Tiers et tout, refait de pique," the sheriff of the Norman Isles who says: The holder in fee reverting to his landed estate cannot claim the fruits of that estate during the hereditary seizure of the real estate by the mortgagor," the playwright who says: "The piece was hissed," the comedian who says: "I've made a hit," the philosopher who says: "Phenomenal triplicity," the huntsman who says: "Voileci allais, Voileci fuyant," the phrenologist who says: "Amativeness, combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My†  (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

The guest was now the master of Wuthering Heights: he held firm possession, and proved to the attorney — who, in his turn, proved it to Mr. Linton — that Earnshaw had mortgaged every yard of land he owned, for cash to supply his mania for gaming; and he, Heathcliff, was the mortgagee.†  (source) Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, 1846

Her road had again seemed to stretch out endless; she imagined that there might be hundreds and hundreds of such things that Edward was concealing from her—that they might necessitate more mortgagings, more pawnings of bracelets, more and always more horrors.†  (source) Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier, 1915

, she would take a harder beating with each step of her climb, until, at the end, whatever she reached, be it a copper company or an unmortgaged cottage, she would see it seized by Jim on some September 2 and she would see it vanish to pay for the parties where Jim made his deals with his friends.†  (source) Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

Reverend Lanier, however, lost his job when the Methodists took up the mortgage on his church.  (source) Homer Hickam, October Sky, 1998

Two-thirds of my income goes in paying the interest of mortgages.  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847