Example sentences for: borrowed

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

  • Background noise is supplied by other members of her department, but they are cut and pasted from a vague memory of Barney Miller . After Faulkner's cameo, he presumably returned to the Folgers Crystals commercial from which he was borrowed.

  • Much later, the Greeks borrowed a foreign alphabet, Phoenician and adapted it to their needs.

  • Borak was borrowed in the late 1830s and, perhaps because the Dharuk negative baal was already in use, did not last long in its primary sense.

  • Some of these books are borrowed from the libraries.

  • In the last century the Russians, for reasons that no one now seems quite sure of, took the name of a London railway station, Vauxhall, and made it their generic word for all railroad stations: vagzal . In much the same way, the Japanese word for a fashionable cut suit, sebiro , is a corruption of Savile Row . More recently, the French borrowed the English slang words jerk and egghead but gave them largely contrary meanings--namely, an egghead in France is not a brainy person but a dimwit, while jerk is a term of praise for an accomplished dancer--though at least they respect the spellings.


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