Example Sentences

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Japan’s colonization of Korea from 1910 to 1945 introduced loanwords including gao, Japanese for “face,” adapted into Korean as “put on gao,” which means to put on airs.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025

During World War I, “hamburger steak” became “Salisbury steak,” part of an effort to curb the use of German loanwords, according to H.L.

From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2021

Ideally tech companies will also tackle code-switching and translanguaging, but loanwords are a logical first step.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2021

As for the rest of the vocabulary, about half comes from Italian, with English and French loanwords.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

There is, however, another way in which to determine which of such words are loanwords and which are not.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias