Example sentences for: lent

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

  • As a result, they greatly understated the risk to which they were exposing both their investors and those who lent them money.

  • The customs of Christmas, Lent, marriage, and a funeral are presented, along with many recipes of the foods prepared for these celebrations.

  • La Cuaresma, Lent, was and still is a time of sacrifice, prayers, Vía Cruces (stations of the cross) every Friday, special meatless foods, and spiritual preparation for Semana Santa (Holy Week).

  • It was the former site of an abandoned iron foundry, ghetto in old Venetian dialect, which lent its name to this and scores of other future enclaves for the forced isolation of Jewish (or other minority) communities throughout Europe.

  • For several years now, the Russian government covered its deficits through indirect foreign borrowing--that is, foreign lenders have provided money to "banks," which in turn have lent that money to the government.


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