Below you will find example sentences with "debt ceiling". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Debt Ceiling in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: debt
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 18
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 26.8 words

Words in this phrase

debt ceiling

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • debt can mean: An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another. Frequent word
  • ceiling can mean: The overhead closure of a room. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

4 trillion debt ceiling and avert 1× after the debt ceiling has been 1× caused by debt ceiling brinksmanship 1× cleared a debt ceiling plan last 1× convert the debt ceiling to a 1× in the debt ceiling is still 1× lift the debt ceiling 1× lift the debt ceiling now 31 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a bill to 1× a budget deal 1× a deal between 1× after the meeting 1× can they reduce 1× cohn also pointed 1×

Common sentence endings:

the debt ceiling 2× a debt default 1× allow more borrowing 1× amount of debt 1× attached to it 1× can have outstanding 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

default 6× federal 5× government 5× deal 4× trillion 3× vote 3× amount 3× raised 2× president 2× biden 2× wednesday 2× yellen 2×

Related phrases

domestic debt external debt net debt debt burden

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around debt:

domestic debt 11× external debt 10×

Just before it in the phrase index:

debt burden debit cards debit card debate stage deaths due death toll

Just after it in the phrase index:

debut album decade ago decades ago deceased person december shortly decent amount

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

debt burden

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "debt ceiling" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 4 trillion debt ceiling and avert, after the debt ceiling has been, default, federal and government stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with domestic debt, external debt, net debt, domestic debt and external debt, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with debt ceiling

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Can they reduce the debt ceiling or the amount of debt? (11 words)

A deal between Democrats and Republicans on a necessary increase in the debt ceiling is still pending. (17 words)

The debt ceiling is the legal limit on the total amount of federal debt the government can accrue. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

Fitzpatrick said his proposal would convert the debt ceiling to a ” debt-to-GDP ratio,” which would be a “number that could be agreed to” and would have a cure period, which is time a borrower, in this case the U.S., has to remedy a default. (47 words)

A bill to suspend the U.S. government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling and avert a disastrous default cleared a key procedural hurdle in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, setting the stage for an vote on the bipartisan debt deal itself. (43 words)

With debt being incurred at higher rates and tax money seemingly being spent more recklessly, the debt ceiling seems more like an apparatus to calm the American public rather than a lasting solution to limiting debt. (36 words)

Question examples

Can they reduce the debt ceiling or the amount of debt? (11 words)

Example sentences (20)

Federal employees and retirees are always “made whole” after the debt ceiling has been raised or the debt ceiling is suspended.

On the US debt ceiling talks, President Biden has truncated an overseas trip (returning on Sunday from Wednesday previously) to participate in further negotiations on raising the debt ceiling.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the debt ceiling would edge towards the debt ceiling on Thursday; however, Yellen said she would take “extraordinary measures” to extend the deadline to June.

With debt being incurred at higher rates and tax money seemingly being spent more recklessly, the debt ceiling seems more like an apparatus to calm the American public rather than a lasting solution to limiting debt.

A bill to suspend the U.S. government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling and avert a disastrous default cleared a key procedural hurdle in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, setting the stage for an vote on the bipartisan debt deal itself.

Can they reduce the debt ceiling or the amount of debt?

Fitzpatrick said his proposal would convert the debt ceiling to a ” debt-to-GDP ratio,” which would be a “number that could be agreed to” and would have a cure period, which is time a borrower, in this case the U.S., has to remedy a default.

One thing that won’t help reduce the debt, however, is a financial crisis caused by debt ceiling brinksmanship.

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President Joe Biden signed legislation on Saturday that lifts the nation’s debt ceiling, averting an unprecedented default on the federal government’s debt.

Since our country’s founding, except for Lincoln, the national debt increased the most under the Trump and George W. Bush administrations, when Republicans raised the debt ceiling without concern.

The debt issue, too, is front and center right now after Congress just cleared a debt ceiling plan last week.

The rules vote, which passed by 241-187, means that the debt ceiling bill will be approved well before Monday’s looming deadline for a default on U.S. government debt.

They reportedly will be able to demand budget cuts in order to raise the debt ceiling (which heightens the odds of a debt default).

With just a few weeks remaining before a potential debt default in June 2023, influencers express growing concern as no deal has been finalized yet and political discussions on the debt ceiling jitters.

My position is simple – I am not going to raise or suspend the debt ceiling (racking up more debt) without significant & real spending cuts attached to it.

The debt ceiling is the legal limit on the total amount of federal debt the government can accrue.

Cohn also pointed to the federal debt ceiling, a statutory limit to the amount of debt the federal government can have outstanding.

A budget deal would unlock a separate vote to lift the debt ceiling, now 31 trillion US dollars (£24.9 trillion), to allow more borrowing.

A deal between Democrats and Republicans on a necessary increase in the debt ceiling is still pending.

After the meeting, McCarthy, the speaker of the House of Representatives, told reporters the two sides remained far apart on an agreement to lift the debt ceiling.

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