Example sentences for: borrowings

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

  • As one looks elsewhere in the U.S., the preponderance of British borrowings diminishes, and the purely American inventions increase in proportion, as do Indian, Spanish, and French-based names.

  • Some borrowings completely mystify the non-Hebrew speaker.

  • The presence of these borrowings make some Quebecois feel that their language is under threat.

  • At first the English were content with unalloyed borrowings, but then began tacking the invidious -ard onto purely English words, producing the likes of drunkard, laggard , and sluggard .

  • Such are the imaginative borrowings of the English language.


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