Example sentences for: owed

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

  • 5 billion (awards in excess of that amount would be owed in full, but could be carried forward to subsequent years).

  • The landlord was claiming Stimpson owed $2,750 in back rent, but Stimpson told Liebler she was planning to move out anyway because of the poor condition of her West Belden Avenue residence.

  • One man is owed $70,000, while the other is owed $20,000, she said.

  • Also, Time reports that the IRS fails to collect $150 billion a year in owed taxes, largely because its ancient computer system is too crude to catch frauds.

  • As recently as the last presidential election, Republicans faced a similar embarrassment when Michael Kojima, a Japanese businessman, gave them $500,000 which, it turned out, he owed to creditors and in child-support payments.


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