Example sentences for: owed

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

  • The WP produces a particularly interesting pro-calm nugget: It has the chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange saying that within a couple of hours after the Big Board closed, nearly 80 percent of his market's traders had paid off what they owed from the day's trades.

  • Yes, she does--just as George W. Bush, Al Gore, and Jack Kennedy once owed theirs only to their fathers.

  • He knows that his A-list aura at the time of the O.J. trial owed everything to O.J. himself.

  • In 1992 (the most recent numbers) an estimated $94 billion went unpaid out of about $551 billion owed in personal income taxes.

  • Yesterday, Bill Clinton announced that he would cancel all $5.7 billion of the debt owed to the U.S. by 36 desperately poor countries, provided they channel the money thus saved into the likes of education and health.


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