Example sentences for: borrows

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

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

  • This procession of appliances spilling out onto the sidewalk also borrows heavily from Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind , in which the elect are inexorably drawn to Devil's Tower, where they await the arrival of extraterrestrial spacecraft.

  • Wilson's answer is a transportation program to get blacks to where the jobs are, and a big WPA-style jobs program (the details of which he borrows from the journalist Mickey Kaus).

  • Clinton constantly borrows capitalist terminology to make federal budget decisions appear as productive as corporate budget decisions.

  • 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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