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:
Come Sunday, the ploughman might mark out the village cricket pitch, having borrowed the farmer's chain: 22 yards exactly.
The above do not include those loanwords deriving from words earlier borrowed by Hindi from Persian and Arabic, which are (in addition to those already cited):
In this calculatedly selective text I count only a few more Franglais words or morphemes, forty-four, than English morphemes originally, in most cases centuries ago, borrowed from French, forty by my count.
The governors have allied with moderates in the Democratic Party and borrowed their best ideas.
At any rate, goodbye really does not translate au revoir, Adieu, also borrowed intact into English, would do as the French equivalent of goodbye , and vice versa; but that equivalence gets us nowhere with au revoir , except to point up the fact that goodbye does not mean au revoir .