Examples of “borrowing” in a Sentence

noun The act of taking something temporarily, especially taking out a loan.

• The company relies heavily on borrowing to fund new projects.
• Our borrowing from the library is limited to six books at a time.
• Careless borrowing left the young couple deep in debt.

noun A word or phrase adopted into a language from another language.

• Déjà vu" is a French borrowing that's now common in English.
• The word "kindergarten" is a borrowing from German.
• Linguists study each borrowing to see how languages influence one another.