Example sentences for: borrowed

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

  • Now repeat after Prudie: Borrowed husbands are bad news.

  • The Treasury may be deemed to have borrowed from the public to finance the outlays for which the entity borrowed, and thus to have incurred a corresponding interest cost of its own.

  • Or borrowed company funds that we had every intention of returning, so there was really no reason to call the police.

  • Vanilla , extracted from the seedpods of a tropical plant, was borrowed from Spanish vainilla , which denoted the flower, the pod, or the flavoring.

  • Some Kwanzaa rituals, most notably the focus on candles, seem to have been borrowed from Hanukkah.


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