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    Use "lent" in a sentence

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    lent


    1. She told me that Henry has been really worried, desperately trying to remember when he last saw the gun, Stephen … they are pretty sure it was lent out with a load of other stuff for a themed party sometime back in March


    2. ‘That’s easy, Liz … a load of stuff was lent out for a themed party of some sort, and we know that Dan was involved in the collection … in fact Henry didn’t check over the stuff until quite recently which was when he noticed the gun was missing


    3. Gilla has lent me some boots while mine are ‘softened’ by some process I have been told I don’t want to know about


    4. After New Year's day they began to prepare for returning to their places in the world at large--- Harry to Malvern and the Lent term, the ladies to their vocations in Stratford


    5. Summer became autumn, autumn became lent and on to summer once more


    6. His companions lent him their approval with several bursts of “Aye!"


    7. In Bengal, money is frequently lent to the farmers at forty, fifty, and sixty per cent


    8. The virtuous Brutus lent money in Cyprus at eight-and-forty per cent


    9. ‘No need to beg, mister, it’s just embarrassing,’ said Hogan as he lent forward


    10. Maggie lent against him, her hair spilling onto his shoulder, filling his nostrils with her fragrance

    11. Sam lent forward and she put her hands on his face


    12. Janice lent forward and read it aloud to herself


    13. Nathaniel lent down, picked up the two Molotovs, lit them and threw them overhand, one on each side of the road


    14. The stock which is accumulated into a capital, may either be employed by the person to whom it belongs, or it may be lent to some other person


    15. This operation could not augment, in the smallest degree, the quantity of money to be lent


    16. Those who wanted to borrow must have applied to this bank, instead of applying to the private persons who had lent it their money


    17. the tree with its ready-to-bloom orange flowers lent to it


    18. OF STOCK LENT AT INTEREST


    19. The stock which is lent at interest is always considered as a capital by the lender


    20. The stock which is lent at interest is, no doubt, occasionally employed in both these ways, but in the former much more frequently than in the latter

    21. Ask any rich man of common prudence, to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who he thinks will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question


    22. The only people to whom stock is commonly lent, without their being expected to make any very profitable use of it, are country gentlemen, who borrow upon mortgage


    23. The quantity of stock, therefore, or, as it is commonly expressed, of money, which can be lent at interest in any country, is not regulated by the value of the money, whether paper or coin, which serves as the instrument of the different loans made in that country, but by the value of that part of the annual produce, which, as soon as it comes either from the ground, or from the hands of the productive labourers, is destined, not only for replacing a capital, but such a capital as the owner does not care to be at the trouble of employing himself


    24. As such capitals are commonly lent out and paid back in money, they constitute what is called the monied interest


    25. The stock lent by the three monied men is equal to the value of the goods which can be purchased with it, and is three times greater than that of the money with which the purchases are made


    26. A capital lent at interest may, in this manner, be considered as an assignment, from the lender to the borrower, of a certain considerable portion of the annual produce, upon condition that the burrower in return shall, during the continuance of the loan, annually assign to the lender a small portion, called the interest ; and, at the end of it, a portion equally considerable with that which had originally been assigned to him, called the repayment


    27. The increase of those particular capitals from which the owners wish to derive a revenue, without being at the trouble of employing them themselves, naturally accompanies the general increase of capitals ; or, in other words, as stock increases, the quantity of stock to be lent at interest grows gradually greater and greater


    28. As the quantity of stock to be lent at interest increases, the interest, or the price which must be paid for the use of that stock, necessarily diminishes, not only from those general causes which make the market price of things commonly diminish as their quantity increases, but from other causes which are peculiar to this particular case


    29. In a country such as Great Britain, where money is lent to government at three per cent


    30. the greater part of the money which was to be lent, would be lent to prodigals and projectors, who alone would be willing to give this high interest

    31. money continued to be lent in France at five per cent


    32. Had some trouble with a pair of Ice Wraiths, so I lent my sword


    33. Her dad had thoughtfully lent the car to a mate of his from down the pub, just for safekeeping, during Jodie’s stay in hospital


    34. It was mounted on a square block and four uneven wheels lent it motion


    35. money paid for the use of money lent - interest rate n


    36. money lent by a bank etc and that must be repaid with interest - also v


    37. In 1722, this company petitioned the parliament to be allowed to divide their immense capital of more than thirty-three millions eight hundred thousand pounds, the whole of which had been lent to government, into two equal parts; the one half, or upwards of £16,900,000, to be put upon the same footing with other government annuities, and not to be subject to the debts contracted, or losses incurred, by the directors of the company, in the prosecution of their mercantile projects ; the other half to remain as before, a trading stock, and to be subject to those debts and losses


    38. By a resolution of the house of commons, for example, it was declared, that when the £1,400,000 lent to the company by government, should be paid, and their bond-debts be reduced to £1,500,000, they might then, and not till then, divide eight per cent


    39. “Hello lads this is Lt Smith who has been lent to us by the 1st8th Battalion as a replacement for Lt Cole


    40. This land tax, as it is called however, is supposed to be one-fifth, not only of the rent of all the land, but of that of all the houses, and of the interest of all the capital stock of Great Britain, that part of it only excepted which is either lent to the public, or employed as farming stock in the cultivation of land

    41. According to the estimation, therefore, by which Great Britain is rated to the land tax, the whole mass of revenue arising from the rent of all the lands, from that of all the houses, and from the interest of all the capital stock, that part of it only excepted which is either lent to the public, or employed in the cultivation of land, does not exceed ten millions sterling a-year, the ordinary revenue which government levies upon the people, even in peaceable times


    42. In order to put the trade of a builder upon a level with other trades, it is necessary that this rent should be sufficient, first, to pay him the same interest which he would have got for his capital, if he had lent it upon good security ; and, secondly, to keep the house in constant repair, or, what comes to the same thing, to replace, within a certain term of years, the capital which had been employed in building it


    43. “She was up for it wasn’t she Billy Boy and what happens Nobby is with us on the tram instead of in her arms kissing?” Nobby scowled and muttered something under his breath so Bert lent over saying


    44. Time proven tips by masters of the sport will have lent you their important tips on how to survive the game of golf well under par


    45. He told me so much about it, lent me books and taught me things about the history, the culture, religion


    46. Five minutes later he lent forward, brushing the windscreen with the cuff of his jacket, but even though he’d cleared it, he still couldn’t see through the mist


    47. The X-ray images appeared on the big computer screen and she lent forward excitedly, tapping on the keyboard to print out a hard copy of the image


    48. The cat slid along the side of the cot until it was standing at the baby’s head, then lent over and looked directly into its eyes, teeth bared, hissing softly


    49. Before he realised what Gonzalez was up to, the man had lent across the desk and punched a button on the phone, transferring the call to the loudspeaker setting


    50. As the guard lent over to inspect it, Gonzalez punched him in the throat with curled knuckles














































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    Synonyms for "lent"

    lent lententide

    "lent" definitions

    a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday