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How to use own up in a sentence

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Passion requires that you own up whatever you take up, no matter how small or seemingly unimportant.
Several anglers meanwhile did own up to missing bites, which proved costly.
Afraid to own up to the truth, she takes out a huge loan and buys a replica to return to her rich friend.
To get workers charged up, he exhorts his troops to act like entrepreneurs, take risks, and own up to failure quickly.
The only issue is that portion of drinkers who are juiceheads but won't own up to it.
He said a bonus of the system was that criminals were far more likely to own up once they saw themselves on camera.
Both, understandably, want to talk about where they go from here, but they have to own up to what went wrong.
That was to his credit, as many people did the opposite and people should be encouraged to own up for their wrong doings.
Men who learn of their affliction are sometimes embarrassed to own up to it.
I would not be able to live with myself if I did not own up to what I have done.
But, like I said, what I hate more is people who do not own up to their transgressions.
Rather than snooping around and trying to retrieve it I thought it would be best to just own up and ask if you've seen it.
At last, in cautious murmurs, they own up that they are wide awake, and far from tranquil.
We ask that the government to own up to this wrong and right it on behalf of these fishers.
A private company now owns the bridge and it does not want to own up to its responsibility to do the repairs.
There is a responsibility in this case to own up to failed policies and half attempts and to recognize what is needed.
With approval, an investor can own up to 20 per cent of any class of voting shares and up to 30 per cent of any class of non-voting shares.
We're prepared to own up to the kind of cowardice very few people in life dare to admit.
Will the Minister of Health own up to her responsibilities and apologize for this shameful incompetence?
The Commission's leniency policy has proved a very potent weapon to encourage companies to own up to cartels.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Cap'n Smollett's a fine seaman, as I'll own up to any day, but stiff on discipline.
Dad's either too hardheaded or has not enough religion to own up to a fault.
I own up I was surprised when I heard how the Porters had biffed him.
Well, you just own up, first, that you DID hide that money there, intending to give me the slip one of these days, and come back and dig it up, and have it all to yourself.
But I'll own up fairly, I've the shakes upon me for the gallows.
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