English vocabulary examples in context: bankruptcy
Vocabulary in context: bankruptcy -- Example 1.
Then bankruptcy had come; and as the old man had nothing left but a cart and a horse, and neither family nor children, he had turned carter.
Vocabulary in context: bankruptcy -- Example 2.
Madeleine had set were tangled and broken, the methods were adulterated, the products were debased, confidence was killed; the market diminished, for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, bankruptcy arrived.
Vocabulary in context: bankruptcy -- Example 3.
Marius had learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate inn-keeper.
Vocabulary in context: bankruptcy -- Example 4.
You will die by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England will fall.
Vocabulary in context: bankruptcy -- Example 5.
My lodger sends me into bankruptcy.
Vocabulary in context: bankruptcy -- Example 6.
His name had been proclaimed as a defaulter on the Stock Exchange, and his bankruptcy and commercial extermination had followed.
Vocabulary in context: bankruptcy -- Example 7.
It was the chief support of the old couple; for Mr. Sedley's speculations in life subsequent to his bankruptcy did not by any means retrieve the broken old gentleman's fortune.
Vocabulary in context: bankruptcy -- Example 8.
Briggs's brother, a radical hatter and grocer, called his sister a purse-proud aristocrat, because she would not advance a part of her capital to stock his shop; and she would have done so most likely, but that their sister, a dissenting shoemaker's lady, at variance with the hatter and grocer, who went to another chapel, showed how their brother was on the verge of bankruptcy, and took possession of Briggs for a while.
Vocabulary in context: bankruptcy -- Example 9.
All her lies and her schemes, an her selfishness and her wiles, all her wit and genius had come to this bankruptcy.
Vocabulary in context: bankruptcy -- Example 10.
The old man walked very slowly and told a number of ancient histories about himself and his poor Bessy, his former prosperity, and his bankruptcy.
Vocabulary in context: bankruptcy -- Example 11.
When the judge's first bankruptcy came upon him, a homely human angel intruded upon him with an offer of $1,500 for the Tennessee Land.
