How to Use bondholder in a Sentence

bondholder

noun
  • But talks with bondholders for a government bailout this week failed to yield a deal.
    — Leslie Josephs,azhar Sukri, CNBC, 1 May 2026
  • That is good for bondholders, though not so much for stockholders.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Their risk is capped at that 30%, while the banks and bondholders eat the losses.
    — Jim Vinoski, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Not all Spirit bondholders were on board with the deal, the report added.
    — David Shepardson, USA Today, 1 May 2026
  • The city would pay back the bondholders over time through property taxes.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
  • That way, the bondholder isn’t left holding a worthless scrap of paper.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • That means the government will have to sell more bonds at the same time a huge bondholder is no longer a big buyer.
    — Tom Hudson, miamiherald, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Many bondholders care far more about how much income a bond pays than its capital value.
    — The Economist, 23 May 2020
  • When Treasury yields rise, prices fall for current bondholders.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 2 June 2025
  • That clears out some short-term maturities and can make the process palatable to bondholders.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 9 June 2025
  • Commissions then set the return for bondholder debt at roughly the rate of the bond market as a whole.
    — Nick Bowlin, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • To borrow that much debt, the country needs to pay an enormous amount of interest to its bondholders.
    — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 24 July 2019
  • And if a company goes bankrupt, bondholders are ahead of stock investors in the line to get their money back.
    — Sarah Skidmore Sell, The Seattle Times, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Spokesmen for the oversight board, and both bondholder groups declined to comment.
    — Andrew Scurria, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
  • While angry bondholders threatened lawsuits, the board used that threat as leverage.
    — Mary Williams Walsh, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Meanwhile bondholders have once again grown very cautious on the company.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The city will pay bondholders back over time using revenue from property taxes.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The report also found that Mount Ida had not met the terms of the bond covenants required by bondholders.
    — Laura Krantz, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
  • For one, there’s no city guarantee of debt for the project, meaning the city isn’t on the hook to pay off bondholders if the project goes under.
    — Steve Vockrodt, kansascity, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Wall Street wants to know if taxes are stable, budgets are balanced — and if the state will pay its debts to bondholders.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2025
  • Similarly, a bondholder about to retire may need the steady stream of coupon payments the bond provides.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • The bankruptcy caps a yearlong standoff with lenders and bondholders on its latest debt-cutting plan.
    — Emma Orr and Tiffany Kary, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The price of a bond moves in the opposite direction as its yield, or the amount of interest accrued by a bondholder.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2024
  • None of its other backers—Fosun, the banks, bondholders or hedge funds—were prepared to do so.
    — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The figure represents the rate of return for a bondholder with average luck.
    — Marc Shoffman, TheWeek, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The rule essentially seeks to shift the risk of a bank failure to bondholders rather than depositors.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The deal would have put the government ahead of other bondholders’ claims and given it an up to 90% stake in the airline.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 2 May 2026
  • Some of Spirit bondholders continue to balk at a government deal, sources said.
    — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Bonds, however, are a different story, as bondholders have a claim on assets.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Since the debt-for-equity plan was unveiled, the proposal has drawn fire from a top shareholder, as well as some bondholders.
    — Fortune, 18 Feb. 2018

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