Example sentences for: borrowing

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

  • Inordinate government borrowing discourages private investment.

  • 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.

  • Consider Gira Fornaciari, who unearthed 49 members of the Medici family to confirm various causes of death, or the committee that had Beethoven and Schubert dug up to transfer them to more secure zinc coffins (borrowing both heads for a bit more measuring, and swiping Schubert's luxuriant, larvae-laden hair while they were at it).

  • Borrowing its framework from Citizen Kane , the movie follows a reporter (Christian Bale) assigned to reconstruct Slade's life and solve the mystery of his whereabouts.

  • There are, of course, precedents for this sort of intact borrowing: pogrom, ukase, intelligentsia , and muzhik for example.


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