Sentence examples for owed a bit from inspiring English sources

His sometimes dense, humorous speech owed a bit to Suzan-Lori plays's plays, in which history would not leave her characters alone.

After all, he's been on "DWTS" for 12 seasons now, so you would think that he owed a bit of his success to Len and the team.

We owe a bit of a debt of gratitude to Private Eye.

We would rather owe a bit more in April than find out we are getting a refund.

Elizabeth's own internal disconnections strike me as owing a bit too much to the title character in Michael Ondaatje's "Anil's Ghost," as does her return to an ancestral land.

(Scott) 'Trishna' (R, 1 48, in English and Hindi) Michael Winterbottom's redo of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," set in contemporary India and starring a wan Freida Pinto, owes a bit to Bollywood and too much to the director's reductive reading of Hardy's novel.

In the spirit of modern political fact-checking contrariness — and owing a bit to the creeping sadness that there is no more baseball until spring — we turn a skeptical eye to some of the insta-myths from this Series that we Red Sox fans will be telling our descendants for years to come.

The great Andromeda Galaxy owes a bit of its beauty to a dalliance with another galaxy billions of years ago, according to new data gathered with NASA's orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

Today's Ford Fusion Energi, as well as the Toyota Prius PHV, Chevrolet Volt and many others, owe a bit of their drivability to the fundamental soundness of the plug-in parallel hybrid concept pioneered by Briggs & Stratton in 1979.

The sonic mood, from producer Boi-1da, owes a bit to the more evil sides of '90s New York rap.

But it's also a perverse put-on that owes a bit to J. Frank Wilson's "Last Kiss".