Example sentences for: borrows

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

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

  • The score, which borrows from Benjamin Britten and bebop, is called incoherent and "bland" (Paul Griffiths, the New York Times ). "One of the biggest missed opportunities the operatic world has seen in a while," says USA Today 's David Patrick Stearns.

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

  • One of the most common is the "loan-back" scheme, in which the launderer essentially borrows money from himself.

  • 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."


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