Example sentences for: borrowed

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

  • Many of the articles could be borrowed on inter- library loan but there was no guarantee that they would be here in time for her to complete the paper.

  • For that reason and because English is closely related to French (lexically anyhow, having borrowed a great portion of its vocabulary from French), the title can be left in the original as a title in Danish or Polish could not be.

  • Some of these books are borrowed from the libraries.

  • Pencil (as well as penicillin ) was borrowed from Latin pēnicillus `paintbrush,' a diminutive of peniculus `brush,' which is also a diminutive of penis , which in Latin (also) meant `tail.

  • All three developed from the Russian pede , a slangy contraction of pederast , which was borrowed from the Greek by way of French.


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