How to Use beholden to in a Sentence

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• Like many Democrats these days, Biden feels beholden to the wealthy.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
• Biden and his team are beholden to a theory of the race that puts Donald Trump in the driver’s seat.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 14 May 2024
• This is a grassroots campaign — Vivek is not beholden to the donor class to fund his campaign.
  — Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner, 20 July 2023
• The process requires you to not be so beholden to your atmosphere.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 29 Mar. 2023
• Do not feel beholden to folks who aren’t part of your inner circle.
  — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• Both have sought to paint the former UN ambassador as beholden to Wall Street.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2024
• As a democracy beholden to the Rule of Law, the US cannot and should not support the slaughter of innocents.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• These ladies are forced to make impossible choices to avoid being beholden to the whims and tempers of the men in their lives.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 June 2024
• Buy now, pay later services — or BNPL for short — are now beholden to some of the same rules as credit card providers.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 23 May 2024
• Nor would Democrats beholden to wealthy and corporate donors be inclined to fight for such funding.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• This means that DeSantis’ appointees are not beholden to the last-minute adjustments to the plan that Disney slid in place just before the takeover.
  — Sabina Graves / Gizmodo, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
• But that also makes Paltrow her own boss, who is not beholden to others for work, and has brought her a devoted set of customer-fans.
  — Andrew Dalton and Sam Metz, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
• In contrast, Ceolwulf has gone down in history as a puppet ruler beholden to the Vikings.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2023
• In contrast, Ceolwulf has gone down in history as a puppet ruler beholden to the Vikings.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2023
• The play comes in throwing elbows, ready to épater la bourgeoisie, but ends up feeling rather respectful of and beholden to the classics.
  — Vulture, 28 Feb. 2023
• That panel is now the subject of litigation because it has been stacked with researchers beholden to the EPA for tens of millions of dollars in grants.
  — WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
• This label is not beholden to one genre or one particular sound.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2023
• Buses tended to be slow and plodding, beholden to traffic.
  — Shahnaz Habib, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2023
• And the biggest artists in music are usually in control of pricing, while smaller artists are usually beholden to the venues.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 29 July 2023
• The new prime minister is now beholden to these extremists and the two ultra-Orthodox parties who will have a long list of demands.
  — Aaron David Miller, CNN, 3 Nov. 2022
• The comic implied strongly that Furiosa and all of Immortan Joe’s wives were beholden to him as a benevolent rapist who chose to treat them well and protect them.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 24 May 2024
• Writers think the upshot of the studios’ demand is that they will be pushed to do more with less by executives beholden to shareholders rather than the creative process.
  — Erica Werner, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2023
• Its money supply is not beholden to the dictates of the European Central Bank — at least not directly.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Politicians beholden to the gun lobby will blame this, and every other, mass shooting on mental illness.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
• Investors have fretted over the past year that the market’s gains are beholden to just a handful of tech stocks, making the rally more vulnerable to pullbacks a few stocks stumble.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 26 July 2024
• Critics slammed the last-minute deals as evidence that Netanyahu remains beholden to his most extreme partners.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
• Feminism is not beholden to this pattern, of course, and intersectionalists are right to single out the shortcomings of the four-day week.
  — Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza, Quartz, 13 June 2023
• At this point, the onus is on the brands and media outlets who are still beholden to uplifting certain body types, to provide visibility to those who live in the most oppressed bodies.
  — Stephanie Yeboah, refinery29.com, 12 July 2024
• His livelihood being beholden to an oppressive boss and the 9 to 5 rat race like his struggling mother, Cissy Saint (Micheal Hyatt), was tantamount to death.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 20 Apr. 2023
• This woman, taking on that man with so much power, so much influence, a very powerful network of people beholden to him.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024