DEFAULT in a Sentence
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17 example sentences for DEFAULT, such as:
1. The company is in default on its loan agreement.
2. The default option is to save your work every five minutes.
3. The credit card business is down, and more borrowers are defaulting on loans.
4. I assented to this proposal, in default of being able to suggest anything else.
5. When the visiting team failed to show up for the big game, they lost the game by default.
2. The default option is to save your work every five minutes.
3. The credit card business is down, and more borrowers are defaulting on loans.
4. I assented to this proposal, in default of being able to suggest anything else.
5. When the visiting team failed to show up for the big game, they lost the game by default.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DEFAULT
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default
n. loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid
v. fail to pay up
Classic Sentence:
1 Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he invented parables, going directly to the point, with few phrases and many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus Christ.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
2 The district-attorney concluded by insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly interrogated.
3 A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer one takes a lancer.
4 The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been turned out in default of payment.
5 They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this revolution in its royalty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
6 I assented to this proposal, in default of being able to suggest anything else.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
7 They have been in her family as servants; and, in default of any other school to receive them, she has, in many cases, had them instructed in a family school, with her own children.
8 Somebody broke down in a piece of knitting, and no one but Sophy was able to put the defaulter in the right direction.
Example Sentence:
1 At the centre of it all is Martin Freeman, whose default expression of habitual bafflement (he appears to teeter perpetually on the brink of some conversational incline) is perfectly suited to the role of Bilbo Baggins.
2 Republicans and Democrats in Congress lumbered through a day of political maneuvering Saturday while a threatened default by the Treasury crept uncomfortably closer.
3 Billions of dollars of dodgy loans - doled out by banks to subprime borrowers and then resold numerous times on international debt markets - began to unravel and default.
4 When the visiting team failed to show up for the big game, they lost the game by default.
5 Egypt is a long country, but it is strait, that is to say narrow, for they may not enlarge it toward the desert, for default of water.
6 The company is in default on its loan agreement.
7 The default option is to save your work every five minutes.
8 The IAEA was faced with an outstanding bill of a million dollars on travel expenses, and risked defaulting on salary payments for its 2,100 staff.
9 The credit card business is down, and more borrowers are defaulting on loans.