LOAN in a Sentence

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For LOAN, below is one of 81 sentences:
As a rule, folk avoid me like the devil, for they cannot disabuse their minds of the idea that I am going to ask them for a loan.

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 Meanings and Examples of LOAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
loan
 n.  give temporarily; temporary provision of money
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  But perhaps if she was clever and played on his sympathies and his memories, she could secure a loan.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  Even if she worked on his sympathies and his duty toward his future family and gained his promise of a loan, she knew Suellen would never permit it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  Yes, because you are getting ready to touch me for a loan.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  I waive the right to collect interest on my loan but not that right.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  Half of what she made every month went to Will at Tara, part to Rhett to repay his loan and the rest she hoarded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  Naturally social minded, they became restless and, putting their pride in their pockets, they began to beg the loan of Archie from Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
7  And Ashley never felt like refusing a loan to any man who'd been in the Confederate Army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
8  It was of course impossible to accept a loan from Rosedale; but proximate possibilities hovered temptingly before her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
9  Next day, with Platon and Constantine, Chichikov set forth to interview Khlobuev, the owner whose estate Constantine had consented to help Chichikov to purchase with a non-interest-bearing, uncovenanted loan of ten thousand roubles.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
10  As a rule, folk avoid me like the devil, for they cannot disabuse their minds of the idea that I am going to ask them for a loan.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
11  Oh, if, for example, you would offer me a loan of three hundred rubles, that's quite different.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
12  About a loan I won't say a word.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
13  The commonwealth fell, the loan bank closed its coffers and its books on a sensible loss, the rules of life which he had drawn about himself fell into desuetude.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  He's not a bad sort," said Mr. Henchy, "only Fanning has such a loan of him.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
15  Only, the Thenardier exacted for this loan of her children, ten francs a month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
16  The bank have called in the loan immediately.
17  Many loan application forms automatically add on insurance.
18  You may wish to take out a loan for a major item of expenditure.
19  I had to really grovel to the bank manager to get a loan.
20  The loan must be repaid within a specified period/by a specified date.
21  You can pay back the loan over a period of three years.
22  As it was an unsecured loan, their property was not at risk.
23  The bank has offered us a loan with a floating interest rate.
24  She had to take out a bridging loan until she could sell her house.
25  It took three years to repay my student loan.
26  You qualify for a tax exemption on the loan.
27  A margin loan is a facility given to an investor for the purpose of buying securities.
28  The only difference between the verbs loan and lend is that loan can't be used in figurative senses.
29  The amount of the loan or loans is unclear, but Nangoloh says, We believe that the quantum is in the billions.
30  When asked directly about the governor's involvement in the savings and loan scandal, the press secretary tried to waffle, talking all around the issue.