How to Use liquidate in a Sentence

liquidate

verb
Definition of liquidatenext
Synonyms for liquidatenext
  • The owners were ordered to liquidate.
  • The owners were ordered to liquidate the company and pay their creditors.
  • The film is about a professional killer who's hired to liquidate a powerful businessman.
  • The company is liquidating its assets.
  • If the heirs want to liquidate the art, that is their choice.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The camp was to be liquidated and all children would be sent to the gas chamber.
    — Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • See ya next week to watch Jen ask her mom to liquidate that 401(k) in the pursuit of freedom!
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2021
  • New lenders could keep Town Center open, or try to liquidate the mall’s assets and close it.
    — Andy Peters, ajc, 28 Jan. 2021
  • When the woman’s parent dies, the home has to be liquidated, and the boomers are evicted by the estate.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 June 2019
  • Arte Moreno is indicted by the feds, is forced to liquidate the Angels to stay out of prison, and as a result Shohei goes to the Dodgers.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In a good portion of the cases, their hope is to one day liquidate the business and live off that pool of capital for the rest of their lives.
    — Bill Keen, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • When prices went down instead, their brokers called in their loans, and the traders were forced to liquidate assets to come up with the cash to repay those loans.
    — The Motley Fool, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2022
  • And both could be forced to liquidate assets to come up with the cash to pay the IRS, eroding their alignment with shareholders.
    — The Editors, National Review, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The clothing chain Bon-Ton also liquidated this year and closed all its stores.
    — Michael Corkery, The Seattle Times, 15 Oct. 2018
  • In the case of Twitter, the acquirer, Musk, has to liquidate part of his huge Tesla holdings to pay for the deal (the rest will come from a consortium of banks).
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The company was forced to liquidate and sell its assets.
    — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
  • To pass the climate stress tests, banks would have to liquidate fossil-fuel assets.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
  • News was spreading that the Nazis, who had forced the city’s Jews into the ghetto a year earlier, were planning to liquidate it.
    — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The bar owner hoped to liquidate his stock with passing truckers.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 24 June 2020
  • Once the court proceedings are completed in the next four to six weeks, EBTH will be sold or liquidated.
    — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 9 July 2019
  • He was reported to liquidate his assets such as his Hummer and house to pay off bills.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 17 Sep. 2024
  • In 2020, the man died and a Utah accounting firm trying to liquidate the property sought an appraisal for the painting.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2024
  • By the end of the day $643m-worth of bitcoin contracts had been liquidated on BitMEX, a platform on which such contracts trade.
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • An estate sale is a way to liquidate the belongings of a household when a certain life event warrants it.
    — Elizabeth W. Cook, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2021
  • As the older members of the group liquidate their collections, Lopez has taken much of it to display in her basement.
    — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The shareholders have enormous incentive to approve the deal because if the merger fails, the blank-check firm would be forced to liquidate.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate their holdings.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 15 Mar. 2021
  • But shoe fashion was fickle, and in 1979 his shop was liquidated.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2019
  • However, the Sandy Hook families have not seen any of this money because Jones filed for bankruptcy and moved to liquidate his assets.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week Us, theweek, 20 Nov. 2024
  • True to its name, the remaining stores are being liquidated in partnership with Hilco Merchant Resources.
    — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024

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