How to Use borrowing in a Sentence

borrowing

noun

• Students must have their own pencils. Borrowing is not allowed.
• Economists predict that there will be increases in government borrowing.
• He's compiling a list of Japanese borrowings in English.
• But renting or borrowing fins can be a painful process.
  — Chantae Reden, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2023
• But the cost would double when interest on the borrowing is added.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• Banks and home lenders have been hit hard by higher borrowing costs and aren’t looking for much help.
  — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
• Rates traders pared back bets on how high the Bank will push borrowing costs, betting on a peak of about 5.7% early next year.
  — WSJ, 3 Aug. 2023
• Much of those payouts have been funded by huge amounts of new borrowing.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 8 July 2023
• The rapid rise quickly sapped buyer borrowing power and caused home prices to fall.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Now, soaring borrowing costs and home prices threaten to erode those gains.
  — Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• But now, many of these firms are facing pressure as the economy slows and borrowing costs rise.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2023
• Dirt-cheap borrowing costs, along with changes caused by the pandemic, set off an epic housing boom.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 14 July 2023
• The goal now is to make sure the Fed gets borrowing costs to the right level — even though no one knows exactly what that level should be or how long to stay there.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• The spike in borrowing costs caused home affordability and sales to plummet in the early ’80s.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
• But a higher bond rating means that the city is viewed as a less risky investment and its borrowing cost, based on its risk, goes down, if the city were to borrow.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2023
• Lower bond yields make borrowing less costly for consumers on items big and small.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2023
• This is resulting in higher borrowing costs for consumers, and that isn’t expected to change in the near term.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
• If the Fed raises rates again in July, consumers could face even higher borrowing costs.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 12 July 2023
• How has the economy withstood the higher borrowing costs?
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
• And as the central bank has raised interest rates to cool inflation, the borrowing costs to the U.S. government are also way up.
  — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• But the Fed and some analysts say key features of the plans can make borrowing too easy and saddle consumers with excessive debt.
  — Cora Lewis, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
• The recent uptick in borrowing is a big turnaround from the progress that consumers made in the early pandemic period.
  — Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
• While the Fed is mostly to thank for increasingly high borrowing costs, new car prices are due to a shortage of new vehicles.
  — Becca Stanek, The Week, 9 July 2023
• Cheaper borrowing costs will have two big effects on the housing market.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• The central bank's leaders said the pause will give them time to determine how the higher borrowing costs have affected the economy.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 15 June 2023
• Cuts in the Fed's rate typically reduce borrowing costs for homes, autos, credit cards, and a range of business loans.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2024
• Cuts in the Fed’s rate typically reduce borrowing costs for homes, autos, credit cards, and a range of business loans.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2024
• German bonds, or Bunds, are used as a benchmark for eurozone borrowing costs.
  — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
• But for the most part, because of lower occupancies and higher borrowing costs, the sector is in decline.
  — Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Her plan to go on a £45 billion ($57 billion) borrowing binge stoked fears that the UK’s public finances were on an unsustainable path.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 14 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024