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Example sentences for: owe

How can you use “owe” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Yes, I was one of the boorish many who didn't attend their son's wedding, or send a gift, or even a $1 card since I had met the son only once when he was 8. Do I owe my friend an apology and her son a card?
Three of the best movies I've seen in recent memory, and they all owe their existence not to Hollywood and the studios but to an arguably psychotic alternative rock star with a heart of gold and the wisdom to put his millions where they can do a lot of good.
However, some of the words he indicates as listed by The Economist in 1986 are not by origin English but French ( hotel, cigarette ) or international ( telephone ). True, they may owe their worldwide currency and ubiquity to the fact that they were part of the body of English word export, but are they really words that originated in English or are they loanwords in English?
We owe a huge debt to their investigative labors, painstaking attention to detail, and readiness to share what they have learned.
When you use boycott, bowdlerize or bloomers , you must remember that these words owe their origins to the persons who lived in the past under the names Charles Cunningham Boycott (1832-97), Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) and Mrs. Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818-94) respectively.