How to Use national debt in a Sentence

national debt

noun
  • Yet all three voted to blow up the national debt even further.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The gold card may one day help reduce the national debt and attract new wealth.
    — Jill Jones, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Here’s what to know about the national debt and what the rising levels could mean for you.
    — Bailey Schulz, The Courier-Journal, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Money that could be used to reduce the national debt.
    — Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The national debt has been climbing.
    — Ned Temko, Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2026
  • By the year’s end, the national debt may well reach $41 trillion.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2026
  • But what kind of effect does the national debt even have on the economy at large?
    — Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 June 2024
  • Over the long term, there simply must be a plan for reducing the national debt.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • In the past, huge surges in the national debt were largely caused by wars or recessions.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The national debt is close to $40 trillion.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Despite the cuts, the bill would add more than $3 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.
    — Meg Cunningham, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2025
  • As interest costs increase, so too do our deficit and the national debt.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Epstein files, national debt, foreign aid and more.
    — Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Less than a month into the war, the national debt crossed $39 trillion.
    — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 24 June 2026
  • What did happen is that $1 trillion has been added to the national debt, and there is no good way to spin that.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The national debt hits $40 trillion with no slowing down in sight.
    — Josh Feldman, NBC news, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The impact of those cuts was to add nearly $2 trillion to the national debt.
    — Chicago Tribune, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The national debt has been growing prodigiously for some time.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The national debt has grown by over $6 trillion since Biden took office.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The rest of the savings would go toward reducing the national debt.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The $39 trillion national debt strikes him as a moral failure as much as a fiscal one.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • Over the course of four events, only a few constituents raised their hands to engage on the issue of the national debt.
    — Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Take The Mandibles, a book that revolves around the national debt, long a bugbear of hers.
    — Adelle Waldman, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Bessent says tariff revenue will go to national debt before rebate checks.
    — Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The national debt was also surging.
    — Ian King, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The national debt will by then be gargantuan.
    — Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The following chart shows the national debt from 1970 to the present day.
    — Mike Patton, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • There is also the matter of the growing national debt, which this law will contribute to.
    — Allison Schrager, Twin Cities, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Trump said last month that some of the money would go to paying down the national debt and some could be doled out in checks to citizens.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
  • In the background of all this, of course, rests the national debt, which reached a record high of $39 trillion this week.
    — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026

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