Synonym: advance, give, loan. Antonym: borrow. Similar words: blend, calendar, resplendent, lens, sullen, pollen, plenty, length. Meaning: [lend] v. 1. bestow a quality on 2. give temporarily; let have for a limited time 3. have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to.
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181. She has included photographs in the book to lend verisimilitude to the story.
182. Don't lend money to others;it's difficult to recover it from them.
183. Checking references before we lend money is standard operating procedure.
184. If you think I'm going to lend you my car you can think again!
185. Let's face it, no one's going to lend us any money.
186. 'I was hoping you might be able to lend me the money.' 'You can forget that!'
187. Philippa still has/holds a grudge against me for refusing to lend her that money.
188. I'm rather short of LSD can you lend me some? Sentencedict.com
189. Her denials of this charge served merely to lend it credence.
190. I've lost track of the number of times he's asked me to lend him money.
191. She didn't have any money, so yours truly ended up having to lend her some.
192. The wounds on the prisoner's arm lend colour to his story that he was beaten by his fellow criminals.
193. The bank agreed to lend me a top-up of £500.
194. Could you lend me £10? I need to do some shopping, you see.
195. I think you can guess the answer?they won't lend us the money.
196. The government is trying to encourage the banks to lend more.
197. Why should she lend me money? She doesn't know me from Adam.
198. If you lend him money, you can kiss it good - bye.
199. You're not telling me he offered to lend you the money out of the goodness of his heart?
200. Claire's always one to lend a sympathetic ear if you have problems.
201. You'd better keep her sweet if you want her to lend you the money.
202. I never lend money.
203. He doesn't have a bean, other than what we lend him.
204. Every able-bodied man employed by the new company was eager to lend a hand with the new buildings.
205. Or does the environment lend itself to the air power and precision-guided missiles of a Steve Forbes?
206. The implicit assumption is that investors can borrow and lend at the riskless rate of interest.
207. Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. Hippocrates
208. A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. Bob Hope
209. But it does lend itself to careful analysis and preparation which may well pay off during the actual bargaining.
210. Er, he said, while we 're about it, you couldn't lend me your bass as well, could you?
More similar words: blend, calendar, resplendent, lens, sullen, pollen, plenty, length, violent, lenient, talented, at length, millennia, truculent, challenged, equivalent, benevolent, ambivalence, unrelentingly, end, bend, on end, send, end in, spend, end up, trend, amend, attend, extend.