Words similar to lending

Example sentences for: lending

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

That's when she drops the article before some harmless inanimate object, lending it a kind of pseudohuman agency.
seniors fight predatory lending scams and parents obtain child support for their kids.
For example, the university's central group had created a committee of respected university technical and policy experts to discuss and build consensus about the importance of certain information security issues reported to senior management, thus lending weight and credibility to concerns raised by the central security office.
In the last six months, several of the nation's biggest banks collapsed because of loose lending and fraud.
(Thanks to Charles Paul Freund for lending his erudition.)