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How to use owe in a sentence

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Labour's huge majorities owe much to a decision by electors to vote tactically.
Weinberg's strengths as an art historian owe largely to his scrupulous attention to the visual field.
It is well established that all persons presiding over adjudicative tribunals owe a duty of fairness to the parties who appear before them.
You owe a duty of care to the ex-employee in providing a reference to a prospective employer.
Sciama was very keen on Mach's principle, the idea that objects owe their inertia to the influence of all the other matter in the universe.
Apart from the traditions of Italian stage farce it owes as much to silent comedy as the other films owe to the silent cinema's melodramatists.
Government and other institutions that owe billions of Kwacha in unpaid rate charges should work out programmes to remit the outstanding monies.
Experimental films owe their sole existence to the perseverance and obstinacy of the filmmakers, sometimes at the risk of their lives.
And we darn sure pay the price. We owe it to ourselves and everything we hold dear to see past the propaganda.
If you owe child support or have outstanding traffic tickets, the guards, theoretically, will know.
Whether you arrive in a boat, a plane, or a cruise ship, you owe it to yourself to take a tour.
You owe it to yourself and to thousands of other people whose lives could be saved.
The pair owe their early elevation to the fact that they are playing first-team football while older rivals are not.
The idea of a little town nestling between two babbling brooks is a beautiful one and we owe it to ourselves to keep it as beautiful as possible.
We owe it to our customers and to our funders to show them the results of our work.
She's now couch-surfing, staying with friends and trying to recover some of the money her landlords owe her.
With a cash-out refinancing, you refinance your mortgage for more than you owe and pocket the difference.
Companies which owe the council money will not be charged interest on their debts.
Several members of Parliament owe the FRA millions of kwacha in unpaid fertiliser and seed loans.
The sharpies who run these corporations found loopholes in our laws that allow them to dodge paying the taxes they rightfully owe.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I did feel that I did not owe my escape merely to my acquaintance with chlorite and its properties.
It is the milepost between the time that was and the time that is, that flask, and to it we owe the single standard of drinking.
If I were a man in station I would say, now is the time to pay all Alabama claims, and not higgle whether we owe them or not.
The Red Beet, as well as the mangel-wurzel, we owe to this humble seaside plant.
To Bowring we also owe the deontology, which professes to represent Bentham's dictation.
Modern work has shewn that many cells, formerly described as granular, owe this appearance to a reticular protoplasmic framework.
Nor will we have the custody of such fee farm, socage, or burgage unless such fee farm owe knight's service.
I can't tell you what I don't owe in Helstonleigh, and I've not a sixpence to pay it with.
The foregoing cases, while distinctly abnormal mentally, owe their recidivism to a qualitative rather than a quantitative defect.
What spites and quarrels are still flourishing among my old neighbours which owe their origin to that election!
With the exception of the first and sixth, they owe their combustibility to the presence of sulphide of potassium.
It is not yet known to what philosopher we owe the invention of the cycloid.
We owe to them the doughnut, the cruller, cookies, and many other delicious articles of skillful cookery.
We owe it to him in all honor not to let him learn the truth from the lips of a scandalmonger.
What do the yellowjohns of Anglia owe us for our ruined trade and our ruined hearths?
He's lodged at the Bull, and bellows like one when he speaks of what you owe him.
To them we Americans may owe our energy, our vivacity, our changeability of mood.
His own vines include only those fine varieties to which the crus of the Marne owe their great renown.
I got the smartest children that ever was and they owe it all to their mother, every bit.
If their colors fly on santo Domingo, it is to you and your brave blacks that we owe it.
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