How to Use borrowing in a Sentence

borrowing

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  • 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.
  • High rates have made borrowing costly for businesses, while pushing up loan rates for credit cards and mortgages.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Lower levels of borrowing can contain and even reduce the cumulative debt.
    — Josh Boak, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2023
  • As interest rates rise, borrowing becomes more expensive, which can slow down the property market.
    — Johan Hajji, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The Fed lowered borrowing costs in September for the first time in more than four years while signaling additional rate cuts.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Interest rates might edge down a bit more in the coming weeks, but many consumers and business owners could hold back borrowing if postelection tension and uncertainty revs up.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
  • That could give the administration more time to avoid hitting the borrowing limit, because the amount of outstanding debt will be reduced at a cheaper rate than its official value.
    — Jeff Stein and Theodoric Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2023
  • This removes a section of the population from earning interest, borrowing or investing.
    — Wes Schmidt, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • At one point, Republicans were seeking $1-for-$1 tradeoffs — a dollar of spending cuts for every dollar of new borrowing.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The moves to raise borrowing costs and slow the pace of consumer price rises had their effect.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 14 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • That would bring overnight borrowing costs down to roughly 3.5%.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Her views on where borrowing costs will settle over time have appeared to shift.
    — Viktoria Dendrinou, Fortune, 26 May 2024
  • We’ve been stuck in a brief Goldilocks zone as higher borrowing costs work their way through the economy, but that will soon end.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Rate cuts by the Fed would likely lead, over time, to lower borrowing rates across the economy.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 6 Apr. 2024
  • But now, many of these firms are facing pressure as the economy slows and borrowing costs rise.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2023
  • With more rate cuts on the way, that could help businesses lower their borrowing costs.
    — Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 11 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The healthier the job market appears, the less aggressive the Fed would need to be in easing borrowing costs.
    — Paul Wiseman The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 5 Oct. 2024
  • 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

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