Example sentences for: borrows

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

  • At one point Davis borrows Walter Benjamin's melancholy idea that history is a dialectical fairy tale--a bunch of contradictory stories people tell about themselves, "linked together by strange ironies."

  • But the press only borrows the martial rhetoric that business leaders use themselves.

  • In trying to persuade lefties of various stripes to quit fighting, Rorty borrows a strategy from pragmatist philosophy.

  • When the launderer wants to make a purchase in his home country, he simply "borrows" the money from the overseas lender.

  • A direct loan financing account may hold uninvested balances to bridge transactions that are integral to its operations, such as when it borrows from Treasury to disburse direct loans prior to the time of disbursement; it earns interest on these balances to reflect the time value of money and thereby finance the interest it pays on its debt to Treasury.


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