Example sentences for: borrowed

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

  • Spanish had formed vainilla from vaina `sheath,' a word it had borrowed from Latin vāgina `sheath for a sword.

  • They borrowed a bottle of wine while we were gone, and they were doing the cat thing for us.

  • My bemusement led to my wondering how many English words in the story of youpie Marc, where the vocabulary has been selected to illustrate the relentless incursion of English expressions into modern French, were borrowed into English from French, either the Old, Anglo-, Middle, or Modern language.

  • Intrigued by Milton Horowitz's A Discouraging Word [OBITER DICTA, XXII, 1, 13], I set about tracking the word balagan along its etymological course back from the modern Hebrew into which, according to Milton Horowitz quoting Herman Wouk, the word was borrowed from Russian.

  • Redgrave's errant earring was 1) retrieved or 2) borrowed.


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