"lend something" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are asking someone to give you something temporarily rather than permanently. For example, "Can you lend me a pen?".
We had pretty crappy old trailers in our first season, compared to the state-of-the-art digs on HOC, but they did lend something to the atmosphere of the world we were depicting, as did our main location -- the very creepy Fred C Nelles Correctional Institution in Whittier, CA which is a now-defunct prison for children.
At times it's super-literal, but Duffy's fearlessness, Eve Gigliotti's dedication to the part of Dodo (Bess's only friend and confidante), James Darrah's Beckettian staging, Mazzoli's black metal album outro-esque score, and the story this is the guy who wrote Antichrist we're talking about all lend something formally exciting to the show, and to the Prototype Festival as a whole. .
This will show them that you are a good neighbor and they will most likely lend something to you when you need it.
In the process the reader lends something of his own "scenery" to these characters, making them feel more real to him, more alive.
But the show worked best when Ms. Apple was singing her own arresting material, with Nickel Creek lending something more than strict support.
Their rising cost slows lending — something Mr. Stiglitz says is a consequence of governments' bailing out banks without forcing them to make a clean accounting of their losses and bad loans.
If adopted, the new rules could make the agency's loan programs accessible and popular enough that they could reach their legal limits on lending — something the programs have seldom ever done.
The 23-year-old jazz phenomenon Jane Monheit lent "Something to Remember You By," "Haunted Heart" and "Alone Together" (given an exotic, faintly dissonant pop-jazz, arrangement) a provocative yet unaffected sultriness.
A: I suppose looking back now, the people that started it were very interested and didn't do it maliciously; they were doing it because they liked me and they felt like I was lending something to the game.
From the trailer, one could easily imagine this one morphing – once the initial action has dissipated – into an existential, enigmatic and claustrophobic 70s-style space drama such as Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey or Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris (the presence of Clooney, who starred in the 2002 Hollywood remake, lends something to that reading).
Admittedly, Hansen's paean could never compete with the Spice Girls' meeting with Mandela in 1997, during which Geri Halliwell equated Girl Power with the anti-apartheid struggle and explained to Mandela: "I think we are all on the same level". But it certainly lent something to the moment.
