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How to use lend in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Lend means to allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned. Example: “I will only lend you my car if you fill up the tank.”

Examples of lend by meaning

verbTo allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.

  • I will only lend you my car if you fill up the tank.
  • Where is that hundred euros I lent you months ago?
  • But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close.2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 71

verbTo be suitable or applicable, to fit.

  • Poems do not lend themselves to translation easily.
  • The long history of the past does not lend itself to a simple black and white interpretation.

verbTo afford; to grant or furnish in general.

  • Can you lend me some assistance?
  • The famous director lent his name to the new film.
  • The old silver lends an air of elegance to an otherwise drab room.

nounLoan (permission to borrow (something)).

  • 'I told him I was getting the lend of them,' Joe laughed.2008, Ronan Casey, Joe Dolan: The Official Biography, Penguin UK, →ISBN
  • Our thanks go to Diran Adebayo for his support, especially his lend of Everything You're Told Is True, to the website.2010, One Million Stories Creative Writing Project 2009 Anthology, →ISBN, page 10
  • “Give these to your dad, Betsy, tell him thanks for the lend of them.2016, Mary Peters, Betsy, The Coalminer's Daughter, New Generation Publishing, →ISBN

More sentences with lend

  • She asked me to lend him my tools. That I couldn't do.From the entry that
  • Can you lend me fifty dollars? You know I'm good for it.From the entry good
  • Can you lend me five squid? I feel like a bacon sarnie.From the entry squid
  • Bankruptcy is the certain outcome of your constant gambling and lending.From the entry certain
  • I'd lend you the cash but I'm a little short at present.From the entry short
  • Please do me a solid: lend me your car for one week.From the entry solid
  • I’m still waiting for you to pay me back the money I lent you..From the entry wait
  • I need a favour. Could you lend me £5 until tomorrow, please?From the entry favour
  • I'll lend you the money, provided that you pay it back by Monday.From the entry provide
  • I owe Kevin five bucks which he lent to me last week.From the entry owe
  • I don't suppose you could lend me a euro, could you?From the entry suppose
  • In technical communication, don't use prose to present information that lends itself to a tabular presentation.From the entry tabular
  • If we all lend a hand, the work will go quickly.From the entry lend a hand
  • She's a welch. That watering-can isn't hers: I lent it to her three years ago.From the entry welch
  • Here's the last of the money you lent me. We're quits now, right?From the entry quits
  • Could you lend me ten pounds to tide me over till payday?From the entry tide over
  • My mum is such a cheapskate that she didn't lend me money to go shopping.From the entry cheapskate
  • He endorsed the note in favor of his uncle who had lent them the money.From the entry in favor of
  • My buddy saved my life by lending me a thousand bucks when I was dead broke.From the entry save someone's life
  • The candle flared gutteringly, lending a ghastly light to the dead man's features.From the entry gutteringly
  • Nothing better've happened to the guitar I lent you!From the entry better
  • Can somebody lend me a hand? — I will.From the entry will
  • You couldn’t lend me a lighter, could you?From the entry couldn't
  • Do drop by soon and I’ll lend you that book.From the entry drop
  • I'd hoped I'd find a job, but I never did, so I was hoping you could lend me some cash.From the entry hope
  • When Henry played poker, he liked to declare suicide kings wild, as he felt it lent him an air of sophistication.From the entry suicide king
  • Could you lend me some money? I'm a trifle short of what I need to pay the rent.From the entry a trifle
  • If I lend you my car, my only stipulation is that you fill up the gas tank before returning it.From the entry stipulation
  • That woman — that usuress — only lent me £20, but expected £50 back after just one week!From the entry usuress

Meaning of lend

  1. verb To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
  2. verb To make a loan.
  3. verb To be suitable or applicable, to fit.

Full definition of lend

Questions about lend in a sentence

How do you use lend in a sentence?
Lend is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I will only lend you my car if you fill up the tank.”
What is a short sentence with lend?
“Can you lend me some assistance?”
What does lend mean?
Lend means to allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lend (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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