Example sentences for: own

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

  • But Amazon and Yahoo do have powerful customer bases of their own, and have set up their interfaces so that auction items find their way to regular customers fairly easily.

  • Our own photograph--featuring a man bulldozing new basements that will house, among other things, the executive atomic-bomb shelter--was reproduced full-page in David McCullough's 1992 best seller, Truman , which came out in an election year in which both major candidates were doing Truman impressions.

  • They also have their own language, Ibicenco, a dialect related to the mallorquí (Majorcan) branch of the Catalan language, though Castilian is spoken as well.

  • It is an argument for requiring those who run the subway system to come to work on the train and not in a limo, for public officials to send their kids to public school, and for dentists to work on their own teeth with some kind of complicated mirror system and a stiff shot of bourbon.

  • Recent behavioral experiments in rats stress the prominence of the CT over the NG for the bitter taste [ 26 27 28 ] . We have found that mice with bilateral CT cut have a significantly impaired ability to discriminate water from the bitter stimulus denatonium benzoate in two bottle preference (TBP) tests, while mice with bilateral NG cut showed no difference from the sham surgery group (own unpublished observations).


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