borrow

Example Sentences

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If fundraising stalls simultaneously, such a development could prompt a liquidity crisis and force fund managers to use their cash reserves, borrow money or sell assets to pay shareholders out and satisfy their own lenders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

The law, which will be implemented this summer, caps — for the first time in decades— the amount that parents can borrow to pay for their kids’ college and the amount graduate students can borrow.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

“In such cases, investors effectively lend dollars and borrow foreign currency, which means dollar funding is abundant.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

But many low-income households don't have the savings to last that long and so have to borrow, incurring debt.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Day and night, they printed thousands of new, even bolder, leaflets on a hand-cranked duplicating machine, possibly purchased with the money Sophie asked to borrow from Fritz.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti