was borrowing
- past progressive of borrow.
Example Sentences
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I had also joined the Deer Park branch of the Toronto Public Library and was borrowing everything I could get my hands on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
In them he claimed that protecting customer and investor funds was a "priority" for FTX while his crypto trading firm, Alameda Research, was borrowing billions of dollars from FTX customers.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2023
She was borrowing $15,000 from her in-laws to pay the smuggling fee, including $7,000 back home in El Salvador and $8,000 once she reached Houston.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
Singh became aware that Alameda was borrowing funds from FTX in mid-2022, he told a judge during his plea hearing.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
What he said was that he had spent his private possessions for the public good and it was for that reason he was borrowing.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). by Foster, Herbert Baldwin
