Example Sentences

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Mid-cap players are mortgaging chunks of their businesses to get in on the action, too.

From Barron's • Oct. 14, 2025

Migrants from Africa, Asia and South America are mortgaging their family land, selling their cars or borrowing money from loan sharks to embark on long, often treacherous journeys to reach the United States.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024

Skeptics are howling that this is a Faustian bargain—that the media are mortgaging their long-term futures for short-term gain.

From Slate • Mar. 24, 2015

We are mortgaging our country’s financial future to pay for increasingly expensive treatments for the same diseases we could effectively delay or prevent.

From Slate • Dec. 31, 2013

Some also there were that said, 'We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get corn, because of the dearth.'

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall