borrow
verb (used with object)
to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent.
was borrowing
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past progressiveof borrow.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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
And Tom Girardi, then at the height of his power, was borrowing heavily to fund his law firm and increasingly upset about the size of his wife’s American Express bill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2023
When the Christian ideal embraced within itself a recognition of the value and duty of Culture, it was borrowing from Greece.
From Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge by Hastings Rashdall
