How to Use lending library in a Sentence

lending library

noun
  • There is a small lending library just outside, stocked with books.
    Seija Rankin, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Prince Albert was the first royal patron of the library, which is the world’s largest lending library.
    Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 6 Nov. 2019
  • We were allowed to take them out on a kind of lending library principle.
    Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022
  • Car tires were stacked, painted, and turned into seating, while a fridge was turned into a lending library.
    Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2022
  • One of the benefits of a lending library is that families don’t have to go out and buy inexpensive gear that won’t serve them in the long run.
    Lavanya Sunkara, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2021
  • While some may consider The Duck a dive bar, consider this: How many dive bars have a two-shelf lending library near their pool tables?
    Charles Selle, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The cozy space is filled with curios, a Buddhist shrine, a lending library, a rack of local postcards, board games and layers of notices about local events.
    Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2021
  • The Tool Box is a lending library-type program open to all Lakewood residents, tenants and landlords.
    Carol Kovach, cleveland, 17 May 2022
  • Sent me running back to the public lending library for another Niall Williams novel, History of the Rain.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Milbourn said the first incident occurred in late April, when vandals ripped the hinges off the door of the Little Free Library, a kind of miniature lending library not much bigger than a birdhouse.
    Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2021
  • Still photography book, that captured how Britain coped during the pandemic, by leaving a copy in the park's lending library.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 27 May 2021
  • The choice of material available for borrowing is up to the lending library; and the loan of certain types of materials may be denied.
    Chris Smith | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 26 Aug. 2020
  • The restaurant is also a center of activism and has a lending library that supports the owners’ commitment to the community.
    New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Unsafe structures are discovered and demolished; a lending library is built; an oak tree is saved.
    Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The program started decades ago and now runs lending libraries in prisons and publishes a guidebook to help people upon release.
    Max Kutner, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2015
  • The Bilderatlas should be made into a worldwide lending library of iconography.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • The operation of the federal government is not as simple as a lending library.
    Jonathan Abel, Time, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Eventually, the club’s lending library formed part of the foundation of the Albertson Public Library.
    Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The gallery bridges creative gaps through Alternative Field, a press that doubles as a multilingual lending library.
    Vickie Vértiz, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • First of all, there is the prestige of John Steinbeck’s novel which has had an immense circulation, particularly in the lending library field.
    Jack Moffitt, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In the years that followed, his enterprise expanded to become a publishing house as well as a lending library for the local community.
    Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2020
  • It can be employed to turn delicate and rare disease specimens into reusable resources, which could function as a sort of lending library of brains.
    Perrin Ireland, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2013
  • Kaplan appears sincere in touting his ambition to create a lending library that will keep great paintings in public rather than private view.
    Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2021
  • They’re instantly archived, so what is normally a festival has instead become a public lending library of videos.
    New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • There's also a lending library where families can borrow large-print and Braille books, which Howell said can be expensive and difficult to find secondhand.
    Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The center has started a free food pantry offering staples found in Filipino homes and a lending library and plans a series of educational discussions.
    oregonlive, 23 July 2021
  • Eventually, Ryad learns of the shop’s history as a lending library – in reality, an arrangement to help people read books who otherwise do not have the means of buying them.
    Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2020
  • These shelves now serve primarily as decoration or reference or as a lending library for guests.
    Nora Krug, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
  • The learning hub will also include a lending library, which will allow participants to rent computer equipment, Rojas said.
    Jessica Rodriguez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The town is also home to the country’s oldest synagogue, its oldest tavern and its oldest-operating lending library, the Redwood Library and Athenaeum, which is celebrating its 275th birthday this year.
    Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2022

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