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Example sentences for "borrow money"

  • I am going to put him to the best use I know for such respectable fellows, and that is, to get him to borrow money for me.

  • A wants to borrow money on his stock of goods in his shop.

  • Many men have used their stock certificates to borrow money on, and therefore, after paying the loan they have them in their possession with their signatures on the back.

  • The very first premise is that the corporation is legally able to borrow money by law.

  • Now they have taken the final stride, and propose to borrow money, and divide it: propose to raise money by taxes, and divide it: for that is what the distribution of the land money comes to.

  • This will probably enable this kingdom to borrow money, which from all appearances will be soon wanted.

  • We have also asked leave of this government to borrow money in this kingdom, but having no answer we cannot say whether we shall get permission or not.

  • Try as I might to convince myself to the contrary, the effort to borrow money seemed to me, somehow, akin to beggary.

  • We had to borrow money, and we have to pay it.

  • It had therefore to borrow money to carry on the war.

  • When we commenced to put down the Rebellion we had to borrow money, and the Democratic party went into the markets of the world and impaired the credit of the United States.

  • The presence of a Minister in Holland would encourage your loan of money there, but it would be quickened still more, by your sending a Minister to London, with powers to borrow money there.

  • If a Minister is sent to London, you should give him a commission to borrow money.

  • Mr. President, the first power granted to Congress by the Constitution is the power to lay taxes; the second, the power to borrow money on the credit of the United States.

  • It was comparatively easy to borrow money.

  • It authorized Congress to borrow money, or emit bills, on the credit of the United States, without the power of providing funds to secure the repayment of the money, or the redemption of the bills emitted.

  • Has it been easy for a farmer in your locality to borrow money?

  • Governments, whether national, state, or local, borrow money by the sale of BONDS, the purchase price with interest being returned to the purchaser after a stated period of years.

  • Many a farmer would be better off to-day if he had never had a chance to borrow money at all, or go into debt for the things which he bought.

  • With such drains upon their income, the proprietors were, of course, obliged to borrow money continually.

  • Then, when the fall of sugar came in 1847 a great many planters were obliged to abandon their estates, from inability to borrow money to carry them on.

  • The country gentlemen wished well to Harley's scheme; but they wished well to it because they wanted to borrow money on easy terms; and, wanting to borrow money, they of course were not able to lend it.

  • The capital which had been actually paid up did not exceed three hundred and seventy thousand pounds; but the Company could, without difficulty, borrow money at six per cent.

  • Objection 1: It would seem that it is not lawful to borrow money under a condition of usury.

  • Whether It Is Lawful to Borrow Money Under a Condition of Usury?

  • Whether it is lawful to borrow money under a condition of usury?

  • The President-elect had been compelled to borrow money from a neighbour at Alexandria to meet the expenses of his journey to the capital to be inaugurated.

  • He answered in the power to borrow money and in the power given to Congress to provide for the "general welfare of the United States.

  • I can't see that either you or Bill Dean is bound by any such a transaction, unless you gave Sam permission to borrow money on your account.

  • Write and tell the boy in Philadelphia that the imitation detective had no authority to borrow money in your name, and let that settle it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "borrow money" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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