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Example sentences for "borrowed"

Lexicographically close words:
borow; borowed; borrer; borrered; borrow; borrower; borrowers; borrowing; borrowings; borrows
  1. The words of this cantata he had borrowed from his collection of hymns.

  2. He's borrowed that ring, and we'll never see it again.

  3. He has borrowed money of me often, and given his notes.

  4. If it could possibly be effected, the removal of the school to such a site promised to be a great step in advance; and, after overcoming a good many difficulties, a portion of the money was borrowed and possession was obtained.

  5. It cannot exist but by a sort of borrowed distinction.

  6. He got quite excited about his drawing, and at last went and borrowed a station truck to sit on; it raised him a little.

  7. I borrowed a pencil of the Ollendorff man, and put down some notes to remind me of what George said, for Ariadne.

  8. Simon has borrowed her opinions on art, and dress too, and they aren't the same as Ariadne's.

  9. The performer had borrowed the Squire's hat in the most polite way possible, saying, "he would confer a great favor upon him for the loan of it for a few moments; it would so much aid him in his feats.

  10. From her recollections of him, she thinks that he would have wanted bread before he would have begged or borrowed a halfpenny.

  11. Truly nothing, except that Martin Burney met us in Lincoln's Inn Fields and borrowed fourpence, of the repayment of which sum I will send you due notice.

  12. Its subject is the use of the Diktamnus, borrowed from Heras of Cappadocia, a medical writer, frequently quoted by Galen.

  13. The Jewish traditions concerning evil spirits are various, some of which are founded on Scripture, some borrowed from the opinions of the Pagans, some are fables of their own invention, and some are allegorical.

  14. The stone kettles (which some people think they borrowed from the Norse discoverers of America in the eleventh century) were as large as to be capable of containing five or six gallons.

  15. It is suggested that they borrowed the idea of these stone vessels for cooking from the early Norse settlers of Greenland; see p.

  16. Quirk said a bad word or two; borrowed the lantern and thoughtfully included the flask; bade his men follow in file and plunged through the underbrush in dogged pursuit.

  17. But after breakfast Blakely had wandered off again and was out on the mesa, peering through a pair of borrowed glasses over the dreary eastward landscape and up and down the deep valley.

  18. Here, if we know the date of the other man's book, we learn that the play of Shakespeare from which he borrowed must have been in existence before that date.

  19. He borrowed from them plots and situations, and {111} occasionally even lines.

  20. Both of these draw largely, however, from contemporary history and adventure, and the central idea is directly borrowed from actual events.

  21. To conclude, what Shakespeare borrowed was the raw material of drama.

  22. It was written after 1603, for it borrowed material from a book printed in that year.

  23. The laws of patent and of copyright have led us into thinking that the ideas of a play must not be borrowed in any degree, but must originate in every detail with the writer.

  24. The plot is borrowed from Holinshed's Historie of Scotland.

  25. Shakespeare borrowed most of his plot from the Menaechmi of Plautus.

  26. The wedding of Theseus and the Amazon queen is the opening theme of Chaucer's Knight's Tale, and some minor details may also have been borrowed from that story.

  27. Barksted's Myrrha (1607) contains a passage apparently borrowed from this comedy, which helps in determining the latest possible date of composition.

  28. As Shakespeare could not have borrowed from these accounts before they existed, he must have written his comedy sometime after 1609.

  29. Again, other men sometimes used in their books expressions borrowed from Shakespeare or remarks which sound like allusions to something of his.

  30. Shakespeare borrowed his material from a writer named George Whetstone, who in 1578 printed a play, Promos and Cassandra, containing most of the story of Measure for Measure.

  31. The nurse is borrowed from Brooke, the death of Mercutio from the old play.

  32. I gave vent to such noble sentiments that in a quarter of an hour I glowed with pride in my borrowed plumes of virtue.

  33. He borrowed twenty francs of me to pay for the dejeuner, and his l'annee trente delicacy of soul compelled him to blot my existence forever from his mind.

  34. It is a well known fact that Balzac not only borrowed names from living people, but that he portrayed the features, incidents and peculiarities of those with whom he was closely associated.

  35. To use a borrowed simile, it was like the mournful, beautiful autumn sunset, before the dark night closes in.

  36. Half William's light was borrowed from him.

  37. It does not, of course, follow that, because a story is found both in Europe and Asia, therefore the western version has been borrowed from the east.

  38. As this lyric resembles watch-songs found in Latin and German Easter-plays, it has been supposed that Berceo borrowed it from a lost Easter play in Spanish.

  39. The idea borrowed from a more ancient faith, 313, n.

  40. This they appear to have borrowed from their rulers, the Turks.

  41. The principal tenets of his work he had borrowed from the lectures of J.

  42. The expression is borrowed from the sacrificial feasts in the courts before the sanctuary, at which the partakers rejoiced before the Lord, Deut.

  43. We have here only to answer the question, why it is that the Prophet opens his discourse with a proclamation of salvation borrowed from Micah?

  44. Justin Martyr writes a Dialogue with Trypho; Origen deals with many anti-Christian arguments borrowed by Celsus from a certain nameless Jew.

  45. The permanence of individual souls he supports by arguments borrowed from those of Plato.

  46. I had fifteen pistoles;[63] so he borrowed occasionally of me to subsist while he was looking out for business.

  47. And I pray thee, of thy favour, to take of me some money, for thou hast doubtless borrowed from thy friends part of the gear and as it is lost, it behoveth thee to make it good with folk.

  48. The Moslem system is evidently borrowed from the Roman "as" and "uncia.

  49. The early European Arabists, who seem to have learned Arabic through Hebrew, borrowed their corruption, and it long kept its place in Southern Europe.

  50. Koramc, and borrowed as usual from the Jews.

  51. Titian borrowed from his "Life of the Virgin" the figure of an old woman, which he introduced in his "Presentation in the Temple.

  52. He borrowed money from Pirkheimer for his journey, and left a small sum for family expenses during his absence.

  53. You are decking yourself in borrowed feathers, Poetess," replied he, laughing.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "borrowed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.