Sentence examples for own from inspiring English sources
own
To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
- I own this car.
The word "own" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to talk about possession and to express characteristics that are unique to someone or something. For example, "I finally bought my own car.".
His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant".
It's kind of in its own little bubble.
Perhaps even more worrying to Mr. Assad, his military has come to rely more heavily on equipment designed for a major battle with a foreign enemy, namely Israel, rather than a protracted civil conflict with his own people.
The federal appeals court in Atlanta ordered that the execution should be delayed for at least 30 days, while a Georgia court of appeals imposed its own stay to give the courts more time to consider the propriety of the single lethal injection as a method of killing.
"When the UK plays an active leading role in Europe we can achieve enormous things which we simply could not on our own," Clarke said.
What will today's decision mean for these whale hunts being carried out on our own doorstep?
In the second day of hearings on Tuesday, the judges described the two-year-old law as fundamentally changing the relationship between the individual and the government, giving Congress virtually unlimited power to force people to buy products for their own good.
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