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:
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.
Loading...