Example sentences for: own

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

  • But we've yet to hear any such rumblings--except perhaps from advertisers--about Condé Nast's $650 million acquisition of Fairchild Publications, even though Condé Nast will now own every key fashion magazine in America, with the exceptions of Harper's Bazaar and Elle .

  • It is Widdicombe who eventually runs the abortion underground in pre- Roe Missouri, telling women where they can find somebody relatively clean and relatively safe to terminate their pregnancies and sometimes smuggling them into her own spare bedroom afterward to suffer the aftereffects of the operations in clenched-teeth pain.

  • Americans care too much about the state of their own stock portfolios, not enough about policies that affect us all.

  • They argued for line-drawing and military confrontation--a point John McCain made it clear he understood in a glancing reference to Acheson and Korea in his own answer to a foreign policy quesiton.

  • 4. Loquacity about her own thoughts.


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