Example sentences for: owens

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

  • She indulges Owens the celebrity genius in endless narcissistic agonizing about who will be his wife, and gives Owens the man no emotional substance.

  • In 1936 a flame was brought from Athens to Berlin to inaugurate the Olympic Games, an attempt at Aryan propaganda which was soundly destroyed by black athlete Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals.

  • Another important aspect of Owens Corning process improvement effort was its use of a process reengineering management council.

  • Her mother, Joanne Simpson, is widely assumed to be a prototype for Adele August, the exuberantly selfish mother in Anywhere But Here ; her brother, Apple Computer's Steve Jobs, is similarly thought to be a prototype for Tom Owens, the biotech mogul in her last novel, A Regular Guy . (To read an ambivalent Harvard Advocate article by Simpson's niece, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, about her own story's being appropriated in the latter work, click here.)

  • (Actually, the model for Owens is pretty clearly Steve Jobs, who is Simpson's brother.)


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