Words similar to borrowed

Example sentences for: borrowed

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

Borrowed words fill gaps in a language for which they were not designed, much as if one were to take pieces from one jig-saw puzzle and use them in another which happens to be missing a few.
Occasionally, the Japanese stretch the borrowed words to fit more comfortably to their pronunciation--as with productivity , which became in Japanese purodakuchibichi --but for the most part they use the same sort of ingenuity miniaturizing English words as they do in miniaturizing tape recorders and video cameras.
Porcelain was borrowed from Italian porcelaine `cowrie shell,' from a similarity of the surfaces of each.
New terms like apparatchik, kolkhoz, and khozraschet were invented, old words like komissar, soviet , and tovarishch were given new meanings, and some Russian words of both kinds were borrowed into other languages, including English.
Some of these books are borrowed from the libraries.