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.

  • I disagree strongly with columnist Jacob Weisberg's assertion in "Spin Out" that, by employing renowned attorney Robert Bennett to defend him against sexual harassment charges, President Clinton has lent credence to those charges.

  • Ever since priests, scholars, and poets used writing to record Scripture, prayer law, and history both exalted and prosaic, reverence for canonical writings has lent an august power to written words themselves.

  • The so-called "Danish adoption study" lent some credence to the idea, finding that the obesity and social status of adoptees depended on the social status not only of their adoptive parents but also of their biological parents.

  • According to the New York Times , the man who evidently bought the gun and passed it to the killers was 22 years old, and investigators don't know whether he "sold, gave or lent the gun or which gunman ...


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