Sample Sentences for
mortgage
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    Your mama's got no job come fall and there's the mortgage and next year's taxes to think of.  (source)
    mortgage = property loan that must be paid to keep the property
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    The Methodists were trying to pay off their church mortgage, and had challenged the Baptists to a game of touch football.  (source)
    mortgage = real estate loan
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    Reverend Lanier, however, lost his job when the Methodists took up the mortgage on his church.  (source)
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    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)
    mortgage = home loan
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    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)
    mortgages = real estate loans
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    He saw himself as a muckraking gadfly and had mortgaged his brownstone five times to keep The Phoenix going.  (source)
    mortgaged = pledged for a loan
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    Its fragile economy, a life of splendor based on the perennial mortgaging of the next year's crop, was in his hands alone.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    , 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)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmortgaged means not and reverses the meaning of mortgaged. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    She even induced Winston to mortgage yet another of his evenings by enrolling himself for the part-time munition work which was done voluntarily by zealous Party members.  (source)
    mortgage = pledge
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    Two-thirds of my income goes in paying the interest of mortgages.  (source)
    mortgages = real estate loans
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