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809 examples of Borrow in a sentence

So, I could tell you a lot about shame, but I'd have to borrow everyone else's time.
They borrow money.
This is not ... To borrow a phrase from Star Wars: this is not the mania you are looking for.
To borrow a concept from my country's CIA, it helps you to soften up your audience.
To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte, silk is terrific.
They want to borrow the Cyrus cylinder.
But of course, you can't borrow natural resources, so we're burning through our capital, or stealing from the future.
We don't borrow any energy from history.
And I'm not saying that we should copy nature, I'm not saying we should mimic biology, instead I propose that we can borrow nature's processes.
How can we lend and borrow more things, without knocking on each other's doors at a bad time?
Normally it lives on the top of Big Ben, because that's where you get the best reception, but they had negotiated that their colleague could borrow it for the afternoon to use in an office presentation.
A staph cell can be next to a muscle cell in your body and borrow genes from it when antibiotics come, and change and mutate.
When applying makeup, I borrow a sniper's method to better protect myself and to detect the enemy, as he did.
So each idea has its own meme-ome, and each idea is unique with that, but of course, ideas, they borrow from each other, they kind of steal sometimes, and they certainly build on each other, and we can go through mathematically and take the meme-ome from one talk and compare it to the meme-ome from every other talk, and if there's a similarity between the two of them, we can create a link and represent that as a graph, just like Eric and I are connected.
So what the experts call "denial," I call "hope," and I'd like to borrow a phrase from my friends in software design.
Why don't we take the source from the person we want the voice to sound like, because it's preserved, and borrow the filter from someone about the same age and size, because they can articulate speech, and then mix them?
But we know that the proper study of mankind is man, to borrow from Alexander Pope.
So if a country gets downgraded by a rating agency, the country has to pay more in order to borrow money on the international markets.
So it affects you as a citizen and as a taxpayer, because you and your fellow countrymen have to pony up more in order to borrow.
In desperation, her father went to a neighbor to borrow 2,500 dollars.
We've got to slow the pace of coevolution down, and there are ideas that we can borrow from energy that are helpful in thinking about how we might want to do this in the case of antibiotics as well.
To borrow a line from Chai Jing, we're all under the same dome, and air pollution that originates in China can travel beyond its borders and affect populations as far away as those in North America.
Can I borrow 7,500 dollars?"
Well, I think there are three things that business can borrow from Project '87: real problems, real numbers, real consequences.
I like to call this blind championing of technology "trickle-down techonomics," to borrow a phrase.
They are full of people doing for themselves and for others, whether it's picking up medication for an elderly neighbor, or letting a sibling borrow some money to pay the phone bill, or just watching out for the neighborhood kids from the front stoop.
Historically, before English began to borrow words from French, it already had a word for doubt.
In the first variation, the lord hires a bandit to steal William's trusty crossbow, so he is forced to borrow an inferior one from a peasant.
Even if we borrow just a fraction of its ability to tolerate radiation, it would be infinitely better than what we already have, which is just the melanin in our skin.
I've seen this firsthand in my work with university students - young people who borrow and spend untold amounts of money, having no concept or understanding of the increase in payments, the decrease in lifestyle, and the challenges they'll face later on.
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