Example sentences for: owed

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

  • I would never have learned all this if my INF had not proffered the courtesy owed to an ignorant outsider.

  • McLaren maintains that because Texas was illegally annexed, Texans are not U.S. citizens, have no obligation to obey federal laws, and are owed war reparations by the federal government.

  • Dole has apparently not forgotten his own past record on taxes--he correctly, if ineffectually, pointed out during Sunday's debate that his 1982 tax bill was not a true tax hike, as normally understood, but primarily a canceling of corporate tax breaks not yet in place and crackdowns on cheaters to collect taxes already owed.

  • If we were consistent, we'd insist that those wealthy future generations owed us something, not the other way around.

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


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