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Example sentences for "borrowing"

Lexicographically close words:
borrered; borrow; borrowed; borrower; borrowers; borrowings; borrows; borry; borsa; borsholder
  1. But even with all this originality he was not free from imitation, and has even been accused of borrowing largely without hinting at his obligations.

  2. If the one borrowing consents to pay the price, it is that this service done him does not appear to him too dear.

  3. Just for to-day we will put away sorrowing - Just for to-day not a tear shall be shed; Nor will we fear anything, or go borrowing Pain from the future by profitless dread.

  4. From this full consciousness my faith is borrowing Light to illuminate Life's darkest sorrowing, Whatever woes assail me still I cry: 'God reigns on high!

  5. The borrowing and the lending of money were not unknown by any means in Mr. Lamb's set.

  6. Why didn't you tell me he was borrowing money of you?

  7. Why didn't you tell me that he was borrowing money of you?

  8. Indebtedness can not be lessened by borrowing more money or by changing the form of the debt.

  9. On Borrowing in Music In books it is easy to make mention of the forgotten dead to whom we are indebted, and to acknowledge an obligation at the same time and place that we incur it.

  10. Lying is like borrowing or appropriating in music.

  11. All I have done here is to stake out the field, sometimes borrowing suggestions from other inquirers and sometimes, as in the case of American grammar, attempting to run the lines myself.

  12. I can't go on borrowing money from Mrs Priestley, more especially if I am not at the school myself.

  13. The more she thought of borrowing money from her cousin, the more easy did it seem to her.

  14. The communications between regions--the migrations and conquests, the trading and the borrowing of customs--must be traced and accounted for.

  15. When it comes, however, to the borrowing of details, to patch up the holes in the pre-historic record with modern rags and tatters makes better literature than science.

  16. In all her applied arts, as well as in her graphic arts, she has followed a policy of skilful adaptation, borrowing and remoulding on more economic lines the best products of other countries.

  17. Borrowing on an inheritance that he had been forbidden to expect.

  18. He told Martie of his college days; borrowing episodes at random from the lives of other men, men whom he admired.

  19. They laughed over the pretty gipsy hat, over Len's coat, over the need of borrowing Mabel's brush and comb.

  20. You must take care, in borrowing the watch, that it be a good one, and goes well.

  21. The performer commences by borrowing two hats, which he places, crown upward, upon the table, drawing particular attention to the fact that there is nothing whatever under either of them.

  22. To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.

  23. Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor.

  24. Defn: The act of borrowing or exchanging.

  25. It shall fright all it friends with borrowing letters.

  26. To have crowds like this following one out of town makes a sensitive person feel uncomfortably like being chased out of a community for borrowing chickens by moonlight, or on account of some irregularity concerning hotel bills.

  27. Borrowing a handleless frying-pan, I am setting about preparing my own supper, when a respectable-looking Persian steps out from the crowd of curious on-lookers and voluntarily takes this rather onerous duty out of my hands.

  28. I have informed Congress of it, and suggested to them the expediency of borrowing this sum in Holland, if possible, as well to prevent loss to this country as to draw all their money transactions to one point.

  29. Yet the borrowing the money in Holland will be rendered more difficult by the same event, in proportion as it will increase the demand for money by other powers.

  30. In some of my former letters, I suggested an opportunity of obliging this court, by borrowing as much money in Holland as would pay the debt due here, if such a loan could be obtained; as to which, I was altogether ignorant.

  31. I mean those which suggest the possibility of borrowing money in Europe, the principal of which shall be ultimately payable in land, and in the meantime a good interest.

  32. Foreseeing that our Treasury Board might not be able to remit money from America, I suggested to Congress the expediency of borrowing money in Holland to pay off the foreign officers.

  33. The new Government should by no means be left by the old, to the necessity of borrowing a stiver, before it can tax for its interest.

  34. Borrowing money for a new enterprise was common.

  35. So the king was authorized to grant charters to two distinct corporations for the insurance of ships, goods, and merchandise or going to sea or for lending money upon bottomry [borrowing money and and pledging the ship as security].

  36. He found the staff greatly concerned about the trouble which was likely to befall him for borrowing the motor-car.

  37. Now there you go, borrowing trouble, mother," Edward exclaimed.

  38. You're always borrowing trouble, you are.

  39. These two romances, in turn, will be shown to be a borrowing from the Occident.

  40. However, dividends from the trusts have declined sharply since 1990 and the government has been borrowing heavily from the trusts to finance fiscal deficits.

  41. This borrowing and refurbishing of shop-worn goods, as a matter of fact, is the invariable habit of traders in ideas, at all times and everywhere.

  42. He is not perfectly easy, and I have no prospect of borrowing more from him or others, at least without assurances of speedy repayment, which I am not in capacity to give.

  43. The choruses are in this case his own; there was no borrowing from Handel.


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