Sentence examples for be to borrow from inspiring English sources

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be to borrow

adverb

Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.

  • Please push the door to.

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For fans here not familiar with Hulk, it might be to borrow a phrase — incredible.

As ever in Washington, the easiest thing to do would be to borrow more money and let the deficit rip.

Carnegie advised that people aspire to be to borrow Chesterfield's favorite adjective — "easy"; that they learn to blend in.

Another option might be to borrow some space from the Democrats, who currently have the opposite problem and would be delighted if a few more candidates materialised.

One question on the agenda might be, to borrow a Michael Useem analogy, does the Vatican want to be Nokia or Apple?

PEOPLE who plan to watch Super Bowl XLV on Fox on Feb. 6 are likely to be, to borrow a word from the gossipmonger Walter Winchell, infanticipating.

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The solution was to borrow more.

"Human relationships are, to borrow from James Salter, all that is.

The obvious, if dangerous, answer was to borrow the difference".

It is, to borrow a word from Ellie, crackers.

They are, to borrow a delightful British expression, lads.

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