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For LENT, below is one of 72 sentences:
Rhett lent an attentive ear to this remark, as he did to all Mammy's remarks about the proper raising of little girls.

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 Meanings and Examples of LENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lent
 n.  a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  They lent Gerald the money and, in the years that followed, the money came back to them with interest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  With her younger daughters, she had success, for Suellen was so anxious to be attractive she lent an attentive and obedient ear to her mother's teachings, and Carreen was shy and easily led.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  The ever-present war in the background lent a pleasant informality to social relations, an informality which older people viewed with alarm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  In her top drawer was a handkerchief just like this, one that Rhett Butler had lent her only yesterday to wrap about the stems of wild flowers they had picked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  She was busy with needle and scissors, altering a mourning dress that Mrs. Elsing had lent to Mrs. Meade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  And Mrs. Tarleton so kindly lent me Nellie, so I am well mounted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  Her contemporaries, the young wives, mothers and widows, loved her because she had suffered what they had suffered, had not become embittered and always lent them a sympathetic ear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
8  You made it with the money I lent you to give you your start.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
9  She knew, by now, that Rhett loved to take her down a peg, and would spoil her fun whenever he could, if she lent an attentive ear to his jibes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
10  Rhett lent an attentive ear to this remark, as he did to all Mammy's remarks about the proper raising of little girls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
11  He had come on her that morning in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the diminution of her beauty had lent her a poignant charm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
12  His own, at the moment, lent it a festive readiness of welcome that might well, in a disenchanted eye, have turned to paint and facility.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
13  The quality of Mrs. Bry's hospitality, and of the tips her husband had presumably imparted, lent to the manner of the English ladies a general effusiveness which shed the rosiest light over their hostess's future.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
14  The owners of his ship, it seems, had lent him one, in which to carry his heavy chest to his boarding house.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
15  He lent these relics to Mr. Harling, who brought them home with him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
Example Sentence:
1  When I lent I had a friend; when I asked he was unkind.
2  My parents lent me the money.
3  I lent my CD player to Dave and I haven't got it back yet.
4  Sir Leon lent his weight to the Tory campaign yesterday.
5  All sorts of illustrious and influential persons lent their names to our national culture.
6  Marry in lent, and you'll live to repent.
7  He lent his bicycle to me.
8  The setting sun lent an air of melancholy to the scene.
9  Her large and lustrous eyes lent a touch of beauty to an otherwise plain face.