Example sentences for: borne

How can you use “borne” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For example, there was the title of the popular British film of the 1970s, with Dirk Bogarde, I'm Allright, Jack (see Fuji-yama , Lexicon), and the name borne by a boutique in downtown Philadelphia, “Sweet Fanny Adams” (see Sweet Fxxx-all , Lexicon).

  • It is probably the language that has borne much of the burden in that development: the first citation for acronym in the OED , 1943, quotes American Notes and Queries , which refers to earlier, unidentified usage of the term.

  • 26 Although these losses were borne throughout the entire channel to some extent, a disproportionate share, 65 percent, fell on retailers.

  • The "jump" of front-page news stories is a necessity borne of spatial limitation, which the Web theoretically does not have.

  • When the Normans conquered England they introduced their own philosophy of allowing the same name to be borne simultaneously by many members of a group.


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