lends
- present tense form of lend (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Rudolph Peterson Lends Some Advice The head of the world's biggest bank saw inflation coming more than a year ago and tried to head it off.
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Wood core: Lends snap, while the absence of metal also helps give the ski a lively feel.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Lends out books at five cents a week, you know.
From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Ford, Sewell
This can be given only by an independent seer who "Lends a precious seeing to the eye."
From The Principles of Success in Literature by Lewes, George Henry
Distance often lends boldness to the tongue, as the poet Campbell says it: Lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith