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Lent English
Meaning Lent meaning
What does Lent mean?
Definitions in simple English
Lent
Lent
Synonyms Lent synonyms
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Topics Lent topics
What do people use Lent to talk about?
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What words refer to a time when a person fasts or denies himself in some other way?
Examples Lent examples
How do I use Lent in a sentence?
Simple sentences
I lost the book you lent me.
I can't pay you back the money you lent me.
He lent me 30 pesos.
If I had known that he was a gambler, I wouldn't have lent him the money.
A friend lent me that book.
You should not have lent the money to such a person.
Jane lent me this book of hers last week.
I lent him some money, but he hasn't returned it yet.
I lent him what little money I had.
I lent the record to Ken.
I lent her my camera.
I lent her 500 dollars free of interest.
I'm sorry, but I can't find the book you lent me.
Have you finished reading the book I lent you last week?
I want you to return the book I lent you the other day.
He lent me two books.
By the way, what happened to the money I lent you?
Having read through the magazine, he lent it to me.
I'm afraid this sounds like a demand, but could you return the money I lent you the other day?
I lent my pencil to him.
He lent me two books, neither of which I have read as yet.
He lent me the money quite willingly.
Movie subtitles
I lent him some money. That is all.
Although I lent the previous coroner one of my finer texts and I never saw it again.
I have lent him money, William, because. because I thought.
He even lent me a horse to come here. Who won a one hundred guineas courses in the county.
Mr. Linton's sister lent it to me.
Where's the dime I lent you?
I lent her ZOO francs last month, and Laura lent her 50 two weeks ago, for the same reason.
Shelby needed some money, and I lent it to him.
I only lent them to Laura, you know.
Mrs Porter lent you her coat to help keep you warm.
You shouldn't have lent him that umbrella.
The last three days before Lent.
The scarf you lent me once in Miami.
I was lent it. Tell me his name and address so I can send the money back.
He even lent me a horse to ride here.
Yes, Suzanne. I lent her some.
Mr. Trotter lent me the book.
She lent it to me.
I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.
Mrs. Wellenkamp lent me her sewing machine, as we don't have one.
Shelby needed some money, and I lent it to him. That's all.
Is it.? Is it lent to you?
Lent?
To pay back the money I lent him.
I lent 'em to T.B. so he could play.
He even lent me a horse to ride here. One that won him a hundred guineas in the county steeplechase.
You shouldn't have lent money to people I disowned.
It's from the scandalous enterprises which you yourself have lent it these years.
No, at the Wellenkamps, at the store. Mrs. Wellenkamp lent me her sewing machine, as we don't have one.
Carnival is the last three days preceding the Lent which, in Roman Catholic countries is given up to feasting and merry-making.
Spartaco lent it to me.
Dina lent them. Who?
Somebody lent it to me.
Gracious England hath lent us good Siward and ten thousand men.
I lent my sanction to this inquiry with a heavy heart but a duty seen must be discharged.
Listen: I lent the crib often but nobody gave me something in return.
News and current affairs
But the creditors are equally to blame - they lent too much and imprudently.
Iceland, which privatized and deregulated its banks a few years ago, now faces national bankruptcy, because its banks will not be able to pay off foreign creditors who lent heavily to them.
But it amounts to essentially the same thing: when the chips were down, the most powerful governments in the world (on paper, at least) deferred again and again to the needs and wishes of people who had lent money to big banks.
Of course, if anything goes wrong, everyone who is TBTF - and who has lent to TBTF firms - expects to receive government protection.
A government of a country with its own central bank and its own currency can simply continue to borrow by printing the money which is lent to it.
The billions lent to Russia quickly wound up in the Swiss and Cyprus bank accounts of Russia's oligarchs.
All of this was evident at the time the money was lent in July 1998, but it is Russia's people that today must pay for the IMF's mistakes.
In the 2015 financial year, the EIB lent more than twice the amount provided by the Bank, but with one-sixth the staff.
It is, of course, unfortunate that German banks and pension funds lent money to debt-laden countries such as Spain, Greece, and Portugal on overly favorable terms, inflating asset bubbles that eventually had to burst.
Of course, national governments would have had to use taxpayer funds to recapitalize northern European banks - especially in France and Germany - that lent too much to the periphery.
Under a business-as-usual scenario, the money received would most likely just be lent out again to Greece.
This position also opened another front in the Church's battle with Eastern European Orthodox Christianity, which lent theological support to vampire myths by teaching that non-decomposed bodies could not go to heaven and could be revivified by the devil.
So the banks and international institutions that lent money to Mubarak should bear the responsibility of their choice to bankroll his repressive regime.
The European Central Bank managed to relieve an incipient credit crunch through its long-term refinancing operation (LTRO), which lent over a trillion euros to eurozone banks at one percent.
As for the rest, the amounts that are not already committed to the peripheral countries could be used to support borrowing that can be lent onward to Italy and Spain.
And China's big banks have lent large sums, willingly or otherwise, to local governments for infrastructure projects - many of them of dubious economic value.
In 2005-2006, my firm acquired 330-megawatt onshore projects in Germany and France. Our fund contributed the equity, and a bank lent the money needed to finance construction.
More recently, creditor countries have been concerned about the financial costs to member governments that have lent to Greece.
On the other hand, the Darfur crisis, in which China has lent its support to Khartoum, has provided a reality check for both sides, revealing the limits to collaboration.
The explosion of data on genomes and population genetics in the twenty-first century has not only lent new support to my 42-year-old theory; it has also uncovered broad new areas of research.
Private bondholders, people and entities who lent money to banks, are being allowed to pull out their money en masse and have it replaced by public debt.
And never in its history has the Fed lent to non-depository institutions.
I had managed to put aside some modest savings, which I freely lent him indefinitely at zero interest.