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Example sentences for "lend"

Lexicographically close words:
lemons; lempira; lemur; lemurs; lemy; lende; lendemain; lender; lenders; lendeth
  1. Rather different from Leonora, who borrows everything she can persuade people to lend her.

  2. My idea was to ask Miss White to lend us the duplicator, and we'd make a copy for each Form.

  3. She'd be desperately offended if one offered to lend her pocket-money, or anything.

  4. The creole vine, imported into Peru from the Canaries and spreading over the whole of the southern Andes, yields great quantities of a sugary, but rough fruit, which does not lend itself to imitating the wines of Europe.

  5. The damp forest of Misiones does not lend itself to breeding.

  6. There are, however, besides the thinly populated districts of the farms, certain busy hives which lend animation to the scrub.

  7. I told him I had no gun, so he offered to lend me one.

  8. It is well I should be on the spot to lend you some support.

  9. The work, in addition to its own stores of original thought, has many a golden sentence and rhyme from the meditative poets of Germany and England, which lend it increased richness and beauty.

  10. It sometimes chances, in this world of wo, That lovely flowers in gloomy forests grow, Which freely lend their sweetness to impart A sense of pleasure to the stranger's heart.

  11. Mer: Now heele keepe a mumbling in my guts on the 75 other side, come Benuolio, lend me thy hand: a poxe of your houses.

  12. If she would only let him lend her the five thousand dollars, or whatever it was.

  13. If he should go now and ask for five thousand dollars to lend Martha Phipps, what.

  14. Lief replied that he would lend it but not give it.

  15. Well, then," said the tall man, "can you lend us some money?

  16. Lend me horse, and serving-men, and your apparel, And I’ll ride to London to answere your quarrel.

  17. If Pan Yatsek ever pays me it will be all the same how much I lend him.

  18. Soft, take thy Physicke first; thou too, and thou: Stay I will lend thee money, borrow none.

  19. Lend to each man enough, that one neede not lend to another.

  20. But the minor distinctions have, for the most part, seemed to me to be factitious and factious, gotten up by cunning men for selfish purposes, to which the true patriot and honest man should be slow to lend himself.

  21. Ardent imaginations and brilliant intellects lend a charm to conversation with the men, only less than that which the world-famed beauty, intelligence and kindly courtesy of the women lend to theirs.

  22. I beseech you, sir, to lend the matter your attentive consideration; you will find the character of it as I represent it to you.

  23. Alice says mebbe you would lend her the money only she wont ask you cause you weren't nice to her mother and she got awful hungry sometimes.

  24. Perhaps Uncle Joseph would lend me the money if I'd write to him--I could pay it back when I got to teaching.

  25. That the story would lend itself happily to stage production must have occurred even to the thoughtless reader.

  26. Others again will meet you half way and kindly lend a helping hand; while some, like Jane, are always on the run, and are captured only by pursuit.

  27. These girls are often bright and attractive, but they are usually self-willed, lacking in judgment, and ignorant of every useful art, as well as of all social and domestic standards that lend themselves to the development of a true womanhood.

  28. It will surely become an accomplished fact; and there are other clubs willing to take the initiative; but it is fitting that the Pioneer Club should lead, and by its wisdom and judgment lend an added dignity to noble endeavor.

  29. Would that I could "lend continuance to the time" of those disputants, and show why and how they drifted apart instead of together!

  30. I anticipated tidings from Theresa with that interest which slight occurrences lend a life whose stirring events are few.

  31. I knew not then that the silver chord was already severed, and the veil lifted from the pale face of grief, never again in mercy to lend its secrecy.

  32. It should indeed be governed by prudence, but it should itself govern and lend its impulse and direction to abstract reason.

  33. He judged of everything in the downright sincerity of his nature, without being able to impose upon himself by any hollow disguise, or to lend his support to anything unfair or dishonourable.

  34. They lend themselves to the impression before them with good humour and good will, making it neither better nor worse than it is.

  35. Because they imagine others to do so; they see and hear certain signs and supposed evidences of it, and it amuses and fills up the void of the mind, the love of the mysterious and wonderful, to lend their assent to it.

  36. The Semang women usually possess from twenty to thirty combs, and they lend them to one another.

  37. The Allobroges were instructed to lend themselves to the device, stipulating, however, that they should have a written signed authority which they could show to their rulers at home.

  38. To lend money to citizens, or more profitably to allied States and cities, at enormous rates of interest, was the ordinary resource of a Roman nobleman in quest of revenue.

  39. But he was, in truth, the last of men to lend his ears "To those budge doctors of the stoic fur.

  40. Money they used to lend at usury, no doubt, but with a great chance of losing it.

  41. The story founded on that letter declares that Cicero threw himself bodily at his old friend's feet, and that Pompey did not lend a hand to raise him, but told him simply that everything was in Cæsar's hands.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodate; accommodation; advance; borrow; discount; give; impart; lend; loan; provide; shave


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    lend money; lends itself