How to Use beholden to in a Sentence

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• The president – a former left-wing minister – is now beholden to the support of the far right.
  — Saskya Vandoorne, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The process blurs the lines between branches of government and leaves aldermen beholden to the fifth floor in City Hall, where mayors have ruled for decades.
  — Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 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
• In today’s edition: A struggling Biden is determined to stay in — with no cognitive test, beholden to God alone.
  — Drew Goins, Washington Post, 8 July 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
• Wenger’s script is a sly, finely balanced thing, pointedly and often hilariously poking fun at corporate and capitalistic ideals of self-improvement and social coordination, without ridiculing the individuals who feel beholden to those standards.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024