Example sentences for: borrowings

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

  • Such are the imaginative borrowings of the English language.

  • In Melbourne, the Victorian languages, Wuywurung (spoken in three dialects on the site of Melbourne and to the north and west) and Wathawurung (spoken on the western side of Port Phillip Bay) were the first source of borrowings, though the surviving words number no more than sixteen.

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

  • But the fact remains that, despite this diversity, the English word hut enjoyed a greater currency than any of the borrowings, being the usual word for the accommodation of the convict, the rural labourer, and the itinerant bushman.

  • 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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