[ US /ˈɫɛnd/ ]
[ UK /lˈɛnd/ ]
VERB
  1. give temporarily; let have for a limited time
    I will lend you my car
    loan me some money
  2. have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to
    This story would lend itself well to serialization on television
    The current system lends itself to great abuse
  3. bestow a quality on
    The music added a lot to the play
    She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings
    This adds a light note to the program
    Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company
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How To Use lend In A Sentence

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  • These cases come first on the court's calendar.
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  • What splendor and pulchritude, what symmetry in all things, what assets for the necessities of life have you not granted and assigned to this land and its inhabitants! Brotherhood of the Butterfly Net
  • I found the head of the flat humerus so characteristic of the extinct order to which the Plesiosaurus has been assigned, and two digital bones of the paddle, that, from their comparatively slender and slightly curved form, so unlike the digitals of its cogener the The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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