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.

  • Malay by government design and Japanese by casual osmosis are already indelibly marked by borrowings (including what English took in earlier times from French, Latin, and Greek).

  • Some borrowings completely mystify the non-Hebrew speaker.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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