He gave up looking at diamonds and solaced himself by the thought that before he bankrupted the United States Army with buying her an engagement ring, he had better get her in love with him a little.
Oh, they were to have been so glorious that everybody that gave them would be bankrupted for life and hate me; and there were to be no duplicates.
But he set his teeth and determined to do the thing right if he bankrupted the government.
All the same, it never had done me much good, for here I was bankrupted six months after buying it, and the charm itself not even paid for.
For instance, when dear father was bankrupted he paid something in the pound and had plenty over for a bottle of champagne; but in my case I have not got the pound.
Lord Elgin bankrupted himself in order to supply the British Museum its crowning glory, and for this he achieved the honor of getting himself poetically damned by Lord Byron.
During the War of the Rebellion, Whitman bankrupted himself in purse and body by caring for the stricken soldiers.
Others complain that railroads are bankrupted in the interest of designing bondholders.
But it was shown on the other hand that the aid and encouragement thus given to some bankrupted others, and in the end deprived the companies of more business than their policy of discrimination brought them.
Having bankrupted his pocket, he hadbankrupted his heart.
The West Shore Railroad, a competing line running along the west bank of the Hudson River, was bankrupted by him, and finally, in 1883, bought in under foreclosure proceedings.
You saw what I did there; those ram-headed sphinxes nearlybankrupted me.
Altogether he had spent five million dollars on the undertaking and had nearly bankrupted the empire.
It is true that the Second National Bank was bankruptedby the crimes and wrongs of John C.
If I had taken out a life policy on this one the premiums would have bankrupted me ages ago.
A few suppers of that sort would have bankrupted even so flourishing a concern as the United Mints of North America.
And the deliveries have bankrupted me," he muttered.
Hundreds of railroad companies were bankrupted and loss and suffering were entailed upon hundreds of thousands of persons who had invested their savings in these enterprises.
If a man starts a hat shop in a neighborhood already well supplied with hatters, and he is bankrupted in the struggle for business, that is the end of him.
But when a railroad becomes bankrupted it does not go out of existence in that way.
No; the bankruptedroad is placed under the protection of a court and in the hands of a receiver.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bankrupted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
