Example sentences for: owes

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

  • Bennett doesn't even think Bush is the one who owes Bork an apology!

  • The higher he rises, the more she uses the role of spouse (and some apparent sense, within the marriage, that he owes her) to bring her own agenda to the fore.

  • The Neo-Renaissance Berliner Rathaus, also known as the Rotes Rathaus (Red Town Hall), owes its nickname to its red clinker masonry, not its ideology.

  • Aside from a scattering of historic colonial buildings around and near the plaza, the oldest buildings in Santa Fe tend to be in a style that owes more to the American Midwest and East than to Hispanic or Indian origins.

  • Italian has poverino . The fact that nebbish made it into English owes much to Jewish Borscht Belt comedians becoming '50s TV stars.


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