COLLATERAL in a Sentence

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For COLLATERAL, below is one of 7 sentences:
And I'll lend it to you--without, my dear Mrs. Kennedy, that charming collateral you offered me a short while ago.

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 Meanings and Examples of COLLATERAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
collateral
 n.  security pledged for repayment of loan
Classic Sentence:
1  And I'll lend it to you--without, my dear Mrs. Kennedy, that charming collateral you offered me a short while ago.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  You of all people shouldn't have to bother about collateral.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  But as you and Frank have made a little money, I know you'll never be driven to me again with any interesting propositions of loans and collaterals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
Example Sentence:
1  I would rather loan a million dollars on character than on any other collateral in the world.
2  People put up their homes as collateral in order to raise the money to invest in the scheme.
3  The sum you wish to borrow is so large that it must be secured by collateral.
4  The group took on a mix of investigations and new probes into misrepresentations by securities originators and underwriters, failures to repurchase problematic loans and failures to transfer ownership of collateral into the securities in question.