borrow
verb (used with object)
to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent.
had borrowed
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past perfectof borrow.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Situational had borrowed about $3 for each $1 of capital it held, more than the leverage of other funds exposed to similar volatility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Ordinary people had borrowed money to buy stocks because they believed they were a sure thing, and there was no safety net upon which they could fall, except the cold, hard asphalt of the streets.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
Jobe Ferguson said he had borrowed up to £100,000 and stopped paying himself a salary to try to keep the TNQ Restaurant & Bar in the city's Northern Quarter afloat.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
One X user jokingly wondered if he had borrowed the jacket.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2026
From among the landscape books he took the volume on Versailles he had borrowed from the Tallis library.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
