Sentence examples for owe from inspiring English sources

"owe" is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used as either a verb or a noun. For example, "I owe you $20 for the book you lent me."

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owe

verb

To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.

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We owe him a great deal and wish him every possible success.

Many owe their careers to Mr. Murdoch.

She quotes Oscar Wilde – "The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it" – and, she adds, "He really was the person in a position to say that – he knew that history had to be remade, because only certain narratives deliver themselves as acceptable, dominant narratives".

We do owe it to Batty to learn.

"People have turned out to vote, politicians have put themselves forward and gone through the process, so I feel that we owe them, and have a responsibility to return the results as soon as possible".

That it's the debt we owe the world, to feel bad about it.

I made sure that, if you don't earn enough to pay it back, eventually the money you owe is written off".

When he came back to the table, he was wearing one of those grins that said: "You'll owe me forever and that makes me happy".

I owe everything to my parents so when my father's team – and by extension my team – Tottenham drew Milan in the last 16 of the Champions League, I thought that this would be the perfect way to repay him.

"I think that as a moderately intelligent women who has a slight public platform (and also as someone who had just run for a train, in the hail, in a mercifully flat pair of shoes) I owe it to others to stand up to this nonsense and I'm delighted that the awesome Twitter community was with me".

The IRS Whistleblower Office pays money to people who blow the whistle on persons who fail to pay the tax that they owe.

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