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How to pronounce lent in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms lententide
Type of season

Examples of lent

lent
She lent a hand on local farms and a fishing trawler that supply the restaurant.
From the washingtonpost.com
The lobster dealer's wife lent me some dry clothes and drove us back to our car.
From the nytimes.com
Citigroup lent two entities Stern controlled $126 million to purchase the malls.
From the forbes.com
Others say that the banks should not have lent so recklessly in the first place.
From the economist.com
The overall experience of the team has lent itself to a more advanced preseason.
From the stltoday.com
Some were lent to him by guards who were students at Louisiana State University.
From the guardian.co.uk
The omnipresent sense of threat lent it remarkable cogency and unity of purpose.
From the guardian.co.uk
Belize Bank had lent Telemedia $22m, while Telemedia owned bonds from BCB firms.
From the economist.com
Ramsay has also published two autobiographies and lent his name to 23 cookbooks.
From the bloomberg.com
More examples
  • A period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday
  • (lenten) of or relating to or suitable for Lent; "lenten food"
  • (lend) bestow a quality on; "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a light note to the program"
  • (lend) give temporarily; let have for a limited time; "I will lend you my car"; "loan me some money"
  • (lend) 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"
  • Lent (Latin: Quadragesima: Fortieth) is a solemn religious observance in the liturgical calendar that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later, before Easter Sunday. The purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer through prayer, penance, repentance of sins, almsgiving, atonement, and self-denial...
  • Lent (album) is the first Album by Dallas Crane, released in 1998. However, this album has become very rare these days.
  • Lenting is a municipality in the district of Eichstu00E4tt in Bavaria in Germany.
  • The Lents neighborhood in the Southeast section of Portland, Oregon is bordered by SE Powell Blvd. on the north, the Clackamas County line or City of Portland line on the south (whichever is farther south), SE 82nd Ave. to the west, and roughly SE 112th on the east. ...