Sentence examples for but were borrowed from from inspiring English sources

4. Some of the mythological stories in the Bible are not original, but were borrowed from other traditions.

The titles of Sze's new sculptures all contained the phrase "random walk," which conjures up a country stroll but is borrowed from probability theory.

The Internet's like a young suitor who flashed a ring, then fled in his Porsche before the wedding ceremony -- a Porsche that, it turns out, wasn't even his but was borrowed from a relative, who'd leased it.

Most of the musical boxes and automatic instruments come from the society's own collection, but several were borrowed from private collectors.

Hydraulics were borrowed from old fighter airplanes.

Many of these horses were borrowed from private owners.

Many of these were borrowed from foreign (Western) experience.

Comments were borrowed from my webblogs and personal emails.

Many aspects of Roman culture were borrowed from the Greeks.

Only nine DDDs were borrowed from other wards.

But it is borrowed, from an amateur musician in her village.