Synonym: Lent, Lententide. Similar words: blent, relent, lentil, talent, plenty, solent, silent, violent. Meaning: [lent] n. a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday.
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181 In two weeks we will be entering the season of Lent.
182 Discussion groups are meeting each week during Lent in parishes throughout the diocese.
183 As we have seen above, discount houses and other members of the monetary sector have substantial short-term funds lent to each other.
184 Lent was also the season when the Church confronted perhaps its most vexing intellectual challenge.
185 His logical mind lent itself superbly to maths and he began to excel in the subject.
186 On enquiry they were told that the other had been lent to a local restaurant when it suffered a power cut.
187 The sum lent by Macrae is not known and reports have varied from £5,000 to £15,000.
188 That in turn has worried the commercial banks that had lent money to the finance houses.
189 It was a well attended meeting, thanks to all who lent a hand.
190 The pieces have been lent by the Frink estate and transported from Dorset, where the sculptor spent her last years.
191 Some assets, such as money lent at call to other financial institutions, are highly liquid.
192 I lent my penknife to someone, but I can't remember who it was now.
193 Just keep half the gram he lent you for your own use, and sell the rest.
194 Sometimes the second reading, usually made from the Apostolic writings, had the same theme especially in Lent or Advent.
195 And his extrajudicial comments disparaging Microsoft and its officers lent an air of bias to his action against the company.
196 For decades, those who lent money to them assumed not.
197 This morning we stand on the threshold of the season of Lent.
198 Although Alexander lent his authority to domestic reforms, it is unwise to think of him as a daring pilot in extremity.
199 This eventually passed. l lent him some money for the last time.
200 These lent a world-weary cast to a face that might otherwise have been babyish.
201 These lent brilliance to the footwork which became more intricate and thus more interesting.
202 He was not fat, although the years had lent a certain dignity to his midriff, he was just huge.
203 I've lent myself to this government's suicidal sham.
204 He lent them the house in good faith.
205 They've just lent me a laser disc player.
206 Somebody else lent me a pump and helped me mend the puncture.
207 Fat Tuesday offers Christians (and others) a final chance to party before the penitential season of Lent begins.
208 Surrealism, with its dreamlike associations, easily lent itself to the wordplay and psychological symbolism of advertising, cartoons,[http://sentencedict.com/lent.html] and theme parks.
209 Your mother once saved my bacon. She lent me money when I needed it.
210 They've lent us an old TV as a stopgap until our new one's delivered.
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