Example sentences for: borrowing

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

  • Regardless of whether the trust funds are relying on interest income or drawing down their balances to pay benefits, the government as a whole must come up with the cash by reducing overall budget surpluses, borrowing from the public, increasing other taxes, or reducing spending for other programs.

  • Other critics rave that "one track after another leaps out at you until you've got 11 new favorite songs" (David Gates, Newsweek ), and that it's 1999's "most relentless gas--laughing or otherwise--of a party album" (Chris Wilman, Entertainment Weekly ). One dissenter takes umbrage at Beck's heavy borrowing from black music: Mike Jenkins writes in the Washington Post that the album "can't escape its minstrel-show undercurrents" and that the album's genre-bending "stunts" sink Beck "deeper in stylistic debt than he can ever repay."

  • Workers in their peak earning years save to repay past borrowing and to accumulate assets for retirement.

  • For the government to honor these bonds will require huge borrowing (essentially replacing these IOUs to itself with real IOUs to private individuals) or a huge tax increase.

  • 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.


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