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Example sentences for: owes

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

Istanbul owes its long-held historical significance to a strategic location at the mouth of the Bosphorus.
But unfortunately for Leeson, his new career is not all Fantasy Island: His assets are frozen, and sixty-five percent of all his revenue goes to Barings, whom he owes $164.
A dictionary of neologisms owes nearly everything to the citation files behind it, and citation files are very much a product of accident, constrained by budget.
Moreover, the only institution that owes MacDonald "the right to publish" is the government, under the First Amendment.
I refer to the apology that the human race owes the Neanderthals, whom we apparently wiped the European floor with around 100,000 years ago.