How to Use owe in a Sentence

owe

verb
Definition of owenext
  • I still owe on the car.
  • I owe you a drink.
  • I owe the bank a lot of money.
  • I owe you my thanks.
  • We owe no income tax.
  • She still owes me for all the times I've helped her out.
  • Additional payments are owed on the mortgage.
  • Once the stock was sold, your son owed taxes on those gains.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Baldwin remains free and does not owe bond to the court.
    — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Others wonder what the past is owed — and for how long.
    — Michael S. Williamson, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • The world appears to be both unjust and to owe us something.
    — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes wouldn’t seem to owe an obvious debt to the films of James Cameron.
    — Simon Thompson, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
  • And Bowling Green comes in third, with 212 workers owed back pay.
    — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Most were paid off, Ray said, but the building owners still owed roughly $1,700 by the end of April.
    — oregonlive, 16 May 2023
  • The fans played a big part in Everton’s Premier League survival at the end of 2022, and the board owe them one.
    — James Nalton, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Under the terms of the reverse mortgage, the lender has the right to sell the home to satisfy the debt owed on the reverse mortgage.
    — Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2023
  • The New York Yankees are on the hook for the remainder of the $19 million owed Hicks this season and next.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • The end result is that a state does not collect vast sums of tax revenue it was owed.
    — Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The Minnesota Vikings owe much of their success this season to the right foot of Greg Joseph.
    — Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Amounts owed will now be paid by Dish Network to an EchoStar subsidiary.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Many of us owe our San Diego following to Carey’s work, his taste, his sweat, his tears.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2023
  • Book even said, matter of fact, Book owe me some money.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The letter explains that the debt listed is no longer owed and has been canceled.
    — Tyler Spence, The Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2024
  • Lula said Maduro owes an explanation to Brazilians and the rest of the world.
    — Gabriela Sá Pessoa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
  • But the out-of-the-blue decision to close left baristas and cooks out of work and missing paychecks they were still owed.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But most of us owe at least some moral debt to reality.
    — Max Chafkin, Bloomberg.com, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Residuals are paid out at the same time to everybody who is owed them.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
  • That would require him, though, to walk away from his coaching salary and the buyout UK would owe for firing him.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • But airlines have the right to make changes and only owe you a refund in certain cases.
    — Natalie B. Compton, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Same with Carlos Correa, owed $128 million over the last four years of his deal with Minnesota.
    — Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024

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