1 Mary looed charming in her borrowed plumes; she had taken, without asking, her aunt's fan and jewellery.

2 The unlawful government did not last long and its leaders soon lost all their borrowed plumes.

3 In the speech which he made at the fair, he appeared in borrowed plumes.

4 The impostor was exposed publicly and thus stripped of his borrowed plumes.

5 The story tells us that there is always someone who tries to swagger about in borrowed plumes .