Example sentences for: borrow

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

  • --Accounts or funds (including direct loan and guaranteed loan financing accounts) may be authorized to borrow from the Treasury or from the Federal Financing Bank (an entity within Treasury) or other sources.

  • The more money you borrow, and the more shares of stock you issue, the more people you give a share in your business.

  • In some cases, murder, mayhem, and, to borrow a tasteless euphemism from social conflict, linguistic cleansing have been aroused by language—not by vituperation, cursing, and blasphemy but simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time speaking a particular language or dialect.

  • By the time I'd filled up my cupboard with the building materials for my book, I was, to borrow one of Bellow's favorite words, bushed.

  • We have tried to take stock of these experiences, and borrow from strong elements in many of the ideas that have already been developed by others.


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