Example sentences for: owes

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

  • The Hubei Provincial Museum (Hubeisheng Bowuguan) owes its excellence to the chance discovery in 1978 of the tomb of the Marquis Yi of the State of Zeng.

  • When Dan Burton calls Clinton a "scumbag," he owes a tip of the cap to Thompson.

  • "If you're buying these as gifts for your father, your shrink owes you a refund."

  • He owes $10,000 in back taxes, but he found $300,000 to give to the Clinton campaign.

  • The letter is wonderfully gracious--and yet, the graciousness owes everything to Washington's feelings about republican revolution, and nothing at all to what could be learned from a 16 th -century Jesuit manual of courtly behavior.


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