LENT in a Sentence
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72 example sentences for LENT, such as:
1. He lent his bicycle to me.
2. My parents lent me the money.
3. Marry in lent, and you'll live to repent.
4. The setting sun lent an air of melancholy to the scene.
5. Sir Leon lent his weight to the Tory campaign yesterday.
2. My parents lent me the money.
3. Marry in lent, and you'll live to repent.
4. The setting sun lent an air of melancholy to the scene.
5. Sir Leon lent his weight to the Tory campaign yesterday.
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Meanings and Examples of LENT
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lent
n. a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1 They lent Gerald the money and, in the years that followed, the money came back to them with interest.
2 With her younger daughters, she had success, for Suellen was so anxious to be attractive she lent an attentive and obedient ear to her mother's teachings, and Carreen was shy and easily led.
3 The ever-present war in the background lent a pleasant informality to social relations, an informality which older people viewed with alarm.
4 In her top drawer was a handkerchief just like this, one that Rhett Butler had lent her only yesterday to wrap about the stems of wild flowers they had picked.
5 She was busy with needle and scissors, altering a mourning dress that Mrs. Elsing had lent to Mrs. Meade.
6 And Mrs. Tarleton so kindly lent me Nellie, so I am well mounted.
7 Her contemporaries, the young wives, mothers and widows, loved her because she had suffered what they had suffered, had not become embittered and always lent them a sympathetic ear.
8 You made it with the money I lent you to give you your start.
9 She knew, by now, that Rhett loved to take her down a peg, and would spoil her fun whenever he could, if she lent an attentive ear to his jibes.
10 Rhett lent an attentive ear to this remark, as he did to all Mammy's remarks about the proper raising of little girls.
11 He had come on her that morning in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the diminution of her beauty had lent her a poignant charm.
12 His own, at the moment, lent it a festive readiness of welcome that might well, in a disenchanted eye, have turned to paint and facility.
13 The quality of Mrs. Bry's hospitality, and of the tips her husband had presumably imparted, lent to the manner of the English ladies a general effusiveness which shed the rosiest light over their hostess's future.
14 The owners of his ship, it seems, had lent him one, in which to carry his heavy chest to his boarding house.
15 He lent these relics to Mr. Harling, who brought them home with him.
Example Sentence:
1 When I lent I had a friend; when I asked he was unkind.
2 My parents lent me the money.
3 I lent my CD player to Dave and I haven't got it back yet.
4 Sir Leon lent his weight to the Tory campaign yesterday.
5 All sorts of illustrious and influential persons lent their names to our national culture.
6 Marry in lent, and you'll live to repent.
7 He lent his bicycle to me.
8 The setting sun lent an air of melancholy to the scene.
9 Her large and lustrous eyes lent a touch of beauty to an otherwise plain face.