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was loaning
  • past progressive of loan.

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At BWI, the airport's parking lot contractor was loaning out shovels.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2010

I planned to tell her that Dad was loaning it out for a few weeks.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

I planned to tell her that Dad was loaning it out for a few weeks.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

His bank was loaning Frank heavily, but not more so than any other.

From The Financier, a novel by Dreiser, Theodore

Mr. Stener was loaning Mr. Cowperwood vast sums of the city's money at two per cent. when call-rates for money in Third Street were sometimes as high as sixteen and seventeen per cent.

From The Financier, a novel by Dreiser, Theodore