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 .


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