| Cases in which children have bankrupted their parents through their extravagance abroad can easily be found. |
| The flip side to that, however, is that it also nearly bankrupted us in the process. |
| Germany, too, was dismembered, divided, stripped of colonies, bankrupted by war reparations, forced to confess full moral guilt for the war. |
| In old age he was taken by folie de grandeur and bankrupted himself with ventures. |
| My brother had radical surgery and a long course of treatment some years back that would have bankrupted a lord. |
| However, the house nearly bankrupted him and it was bought in 1707 by the Dalrymple family, who dominated Scottish law in the 18th century. |
