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How can you use “borrowed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
My explanation is that English-speakers borrowed Spanish plural tamales (whose singular is tamal ), from which they back-formed a new singular, tamale (i.e.
Pencil (as well as penicillin ) was borrowed from Latin pēnicillus `paintbrush,' a diminutive of peniculus `brush,' which is also a diminutive of penis , which in Latin (also) meant `tail.
Thus Teddy Roosevelt, who lost the election of 1912 as a Progressive, was nonetheless effective in the sense that both the Democrats and the Republicans borrowed his policies.
For example, in 1983 the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund borrowed from the Disability Insurance and Hospital Insurance trust funds.
An article posted on the Web by Jamie McCarthy demonstrates persuasively that Buchanan borrowed the analogy from the newsletter of a Holocaust-denying group that calls itself the German American Information and Education Association.
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