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Example sentences for: borrow
How can you use “borrow” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
If members of the co-op reported it was easy to find baby sitters and hard to find opportunities to baby-sit, the terms under which members could borrow coupons could be made more favorable, encouraging more people to go out.
Of course, mainstream publications have been known to borrow a quotation or two, but they usually give a nod to the original source.
To resolve this problem, the co-op allowed members to borrow extra coupons from the management in times of need--repaying with the coupons received from . To prevent members from abusing this privilege, however, the management would probably need to impose some penalty--requiring borrowers to repay more coupons than they borrowed.
Ken Bentsen, D-Texas, asked Greenspan about the "risks" of "having locked in a tax cut that we then have to borrow more to pay for."
In 1985, while writing a review of Sylvester Stallone's grotesque rabble-rouser Rocky IV , I went back and watched the original Rocky to see if--to borrow the controlling metaphor of Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg --"through the thin membranes you [could] clearly discern the already perfect reptile."