Example sentences for: borrowing

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

  • Same as always, shoplifting other folk's style and music," says Newsday 's Les Payne--only this time, "this professional Christian" is borrowing from "the same [musicians he] denounced a few years back as the sons and warlocks of Satan."

  • Conservative and gay rights activists have launched dueling ad campaigns about the ex-gay movement . The conservatives, borrowing from recent remarks by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, argue homosexuality is an unhealthy lifestyle from which many former gays have successfully recovered.

  • During the heyday of the Reagan deficits, conservatives maintained, quite logically, that the important statistic was not how much the government took in but how much it spent: Big government financed through borrowing was no better than big government financed through taxing.

  • The federal funds rate (that is, the one banks charge each another for overnight borrowing) was lifted from 5 percent to 5.25 percent, reversing last year's cuts.

  • Second, a positive effort needed to be made to ascertain the Aboriginal name, and experience showed that the geographical range of Dharuk was extremely limited: the fact that a new set of names came into use as one crossed the boundary of another Aboriginal language must have mitigated against borrowing.


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