Example sentences for: borrowings

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

  • Of course, not all these borrowings are free of charge.

  • Along with these outright borrowings came hybrids composed of an English root and a French suffix, such as clonage for `cloning,' scorer for `to score,' nurserie for `nursery' (`fish-breeding plant'), and supporteur/supportrice for `supporter.

  • skim parakite protoconti- BORROWINGS (6) resistojet nent beef Bourgui- BLENDS (2) telecture gnon gayola xenobiology dynapolis plench TERMINAL AFFIX- incendive, BOUND-MOR- ATIONS (18) adj.

  • On the other there were new names, borrowings from Aboriginal languages, like boobook, dingo, koala, kurrajong, wallaby, wallaroo, waratah, and wombat, all from Dharuk (the Sydney language); descriptive names like blackbutt, bottlebrush, duckbill, flooded gum, and gumtree; or popular adoptions of scientific names like banksia, callistemon, casuarina, boronia, eucalyptus, and platypus.

  • Borrowings from other languages frequently undergo sea changes, but when they are complicated by the tendency of colloquial Hebrew to abbreviate, the results are frequently weird and wonderful.


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