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Example sentences for: owning

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

But by all accounts, he won't be; despite owning more L.A.
In the end, owning billions of dollars of infrastructure--such as cable wires--certainly has its flaws as a business strategy, but it also has one huge benefit: Owning those wires allows you to make a lot of mistakes without going out of business.
Book retailing was a genteel and polite profession, too, with few booksellers owning more than one store.
But owning a word can do little for a writer like me, except perhaps in the ego department, since according to the law, a word can be a trademark only if such status does not deprive others of their right to the normal use of the English language.
That would be economically efficient in two senses: 1) the utility of Dunaway's eye mask would be maximized by placing it with the person who can extract the greatest pleasure from it (just as, uncertainty aside, the highest bidder for an oil field will be the person who can extract the most oil from it); and 2) that person would pay no more for the eye mask than the pleasure of owning it was worth to him.