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have borrowed
verb as in owe
Example Sentences
More than 400 cities have borrowed the idea, from Los Angeles to São Paolo to Addis Ababa.
A showier witness might have borrowed from popular culture to compare him to a tormented Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or perhaps to Hannibal Lecter, stiff-backed in his prison cell in The Silence of the Lambs.
A linguistic analysis in the new study also suggests the Nisga’a/Gitxsan ancestors in the north may have borrowed the word for hazelnut from Salishan ancestors in the south as they were introduced to the nut through trade, at least 7000 years ago.
"We could have borrowed it like everybody else, but for some reason, we were sort of developing a criminal mentality," the 74-year-old said.
Perhaps the prince could have borrowed some moves from his father's impressive display of Samoan dancing at a recent reception.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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