Sentence examples for Be delinquent from inspiring English sources
adjective
Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
- Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
Most customers must be delinquent for 90 days or longer.
You don't have to be delinquent on your loans to qualify.
Mays and Richmond were determined by Lipps to be delinquent, the juvenile equivalent of guilty.
Adolescent boys in families suffering sudden unemployment are more likely to be delinquent and use drugs.
"It's our congressional responsibility, and if we didn't do it, we would be delinquent in that," she said.
(Historically, it is rare for more than 1percentt of mortgages at that stage to be delinquent).
After eight months, 58percentt were delinquent again.
Of those, roughly 450,000 are delinquent.
More than 10 percent of those loans are delinquent.
Two years ago, barely 1 percent of such loans were delinquent.
Almost 14percentt of subprime borrowers were delinquent in the first quarter of 2007.
