lent

Example Sentences

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"The fire control centre gave us 20 litres of fuel and lent us leaf blowers. Once the season ends, we have to return them," he told AFP, standing before a blackened, ash-strewn stretch of land.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

“Some of the dynamics that we’re seeing in touring recently as well as…the relationships that we have built along the way lent themselves to entering that space,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

He also lent his voice to the Christmas Day adaptation of Julia Donaldson's book, Tiddler, and recently became a published children's author.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Private-credit fears have spread from shares of alternative asset managers to big banks that lent money to them, as investors fret about risks lurking in direct lenders’ loan books.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 14, 2026

My mother had lent me the aluminum-cased one from her own wedding dowry.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed