How to Use mortgage in a Sentence

mortgage

1 of 2 noun
Definition of mortgagenext
Synonyms for mortgagenext
  • They hope to pay off the mortgage on their home soon.
  • He will have to take out a mortgage in order to buy the house.
  • Moody’s expects mortgage rates to continue to fall over the course of the year.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2024
  • But then the market started to freeze in 2023 as mortgage rates shot up.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Will mortgage rates soar — or tumble back to the 5 percent range?
    — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Yun said 8% mortgage rates would bring the housing market to a halt and may even sink asking prices.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • But each mortgage payment adds weight to the equity side, tipping the scale over time.
    — Tanza Loudenback, wsj.com, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In recent weeks, mortgage rates have shot up, surpassing 7% for the first time since last fall.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The three plan to pay off their mortgages and save their winnings, officials said.
    — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Higher mortgage rates can sharply push up the monthly cost to buy a home, putting homeownership out of reach for some.
    — Gina Heeb, WSJ, 8 June 2023
  • That will continue to drive pain for some households (think mortgage rates above 7%) and for firms, where bankruptcies are on the rise.
    — Robert Hormats, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • February’s buying boost can be linked to the bottoming of mortgage rates in late 2023.
    — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
  • In the past three years, mortgage rates have more than doubled and are now at nearly 7 percent on a typical 30-year loan.
    — Allison Mann, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Falling mortgage rates lend a helping hand to home buyers.
    — Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • See Managing Your Money for more on how mortgage rates are likely to fare in 2024.
    — Alain Sherter, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Part of the reason is high mortgage rates prevented buyers from bidding up the cost of housing.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In 2023, the price of concert tickets has skyrocketed to the equivalent of a month's rent to as much as a mortgage payment.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 29 July 2023
  • The first quarter of every year is typically a slow time in the housing and mortgage markets.
    — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2023
  • The Fed doesn’t set mortgage rates, but its rate decisions do influence them.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
  • People are gloomy though with high inflation, high home prices, and high mortgage rates taking their toll.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Rates on auto loans, mortgages and other lines of credit have also climbed this year.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 8 May 2023
  • If inflation keeps coming down mortgage rates will come down as well.
    — USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Casanova’s house was paid off, giving Evans room to go low with his offer because there wasn’t a mortgage to settle.
    — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 11 May 2023
  • After climbing through much of February, mortgage rates were as high as 6.73% March.
    — Anna Bahney, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Many folks who live on Nantucket use short-term rentals to afford their mortgage or offset some of their housing costs.
    — Beth Treffeisen, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • Prices are still up 6.5 percent in a year and, compared to much of the nation, San Diego’s price growth is weathering rising mortgage rates better.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2023
  • But existing homeowners were less willing to list their homes and give up their sub 3% mortgages.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • All the same, the surge in prices over the past two years have left Spaniards with one of the sharpest drops in real income in Europe and some people are struggling to repay mortgages as market rates surge.
    — Alonso Soto, Clara Hernanz Lizarraga and Laura Millan, Bloomberg News, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2023
  • The more the cost of a mortgage is reduced on other than financial grounds, the more the price signal sent by the level of an interest rate is distorted.
    — The Editors, National Review, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Few homeowners with ultra-low mortgage rates of 3% or 4% are willing to sell their home and buy another one at 7%.
    — Anna Bahney, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
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mortgage

2 of 2 verb
  • I've mortgaged all my free time this week to the hospice and won't be able to come to the party.
  • She mortgaged her house in order to buy the restaurant.
  • So, don’t mortgage your future with your wife; it’s time to get a new place.
    — Author: Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2020
  • The record also tells you that Turner owned his home and that it was mortgaged.
    — The Root, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Some even sold their bonds and mortgaged their homes in an effort to ride the rising wave.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe and Michelle Krupa, CNN, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The Rams mortgaged a bundle in trading up to draft the young passer No.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Trending News When will mortgage rates and home prices fall?
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • People would mortgage their homes and sell jewellery to raise funds to make their movies.
    — Udita Jhunjhunwala, Variety, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Some say in early stages of the reform the LPR will only be used to price loans to small firms, not mortgage loans.
    — Washington Post, 28 July 2019
  • Every shack, trailer, ranch house and split foyer mortgaged till the end of time.
    — Nathan Hill, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • People save for years and mortgage their plots to pay upward of $9,000 to human smugglers for the trip.
    — Elizabeth Findell, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Rush claimed that some people have gone as far as to mortgage their home for a chance to see the wreckage from Titan.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 20 June 2023
  • But the deal allowed Oklahoma City to shed Oladipo's contract and the Thunder didn't have to mortgage much of the future for the rental.
    — Panama Jli, cleveland.com, 3 July 2017
  • Unlike in the last downturn, homeowners aren’t mortgaged to the hilt.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2019
  • David Murphy would be on board with that, but only as long as the Phillies don’t mortgage a piece of their future.
    — Scott Lauber, Philly.com, 28 June 2018
  • So hot, in fact, that some are mortgaging their homes to buy the cryptocurrency.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Two months ago, Bitcoin was red hot—to the extent that people were mortgaging their homes to get in on the action.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2018
  • He’s not the kind of GM who would mortgage the future to win in 2021, or risk watching a young starter succeed elsewhere.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2021
  • But Bill is not going to mortgage the future and swap a raft of picks for Deshaun Watson.
    — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2021
  • But mortgaging the future to acquire a starter can be risky.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 22 July 2023
  • If necessary, Murtagh’s parents would have mortgaged their house to pay for it.
    — Rebecca Johnson, Vogue, 18 July 2017
  • Would New England be willing to mortgage assets this year and next year to get nearby?
    — Oliver Thomas, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The top five cities on the list were still likely to be profitable if properties were mortgaged, the company found.
    — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2020
  • So, barring a big surprise, the Patriots won’t mortgage these picks to move up for a passer.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Lesser clubs don’t have to mortgage their long-term futures with short notice.
    — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • New York isn’t in win-now mode and won’t mortgage its future for that starting rotation piece.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 19 July 2017
  • Floored by Dion’s voice, Angélil mortgaged his house to release her first couple of albums, both recorded in French.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 1 May 2017
  • Either blow it all up and rebuild, or mortgage the future to fix the lack of chemistry and skill on this basketball team.
    — Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2022
  • And with numerous Fed rate hikes expected, the rate on the 10-year note could rise over time — and by extension, so would mortgage rates.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2022
  • That comes down to this: Are the Heat in a position to give up three first-round picks, at least two unprotected, and mortgage their draft future?
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 July 2022

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