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."

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

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

  • The federal government borrows from the public to finance a deficit.

  • 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.


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