How to Use due in a Sentence

due

1 of 2 adjective

• The bill is due at the end of the month.
• The balance is now due.
• My wife is due in three weeks.
• The amount due is 45 dollars.
• The final report of the study is due by the end of the year.
  — Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 27 June 2019
• With the change, a menu makeover that’s been a long time in the works is due soon.
  — James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 12 Oct. 2017
• But the teams have been unable to agree on the amounts due.
  — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• Briefs from both sides are due over the next three weeks.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• That said, a refreshing at the back of the bullpen was due.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• The babies are set to come home around their due date of May 7th.
  — Delaney White, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2021
• That’s when the Rangers are due their next rights payment.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 2 June 2023
• Ballots are due on Sept. 11, and the vote count will take place on Sept. 12.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 28 Aug. 2023
• Meghan's due date is sometime in the spring, and that's just around the corner.
  — Araceli Cruz, Teen Vogue, 5 Nov. 2018
• This is due in part to the fact that the air is getting cleaner.
  — Steven Barrett, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2020
• So, six months past due, that’s not that bad, is it? Ugh.
  — Brooks Headley, Bon Appetit, 2 May 2017
• The mortgage was due, yet he hadn’t been paid in more than a month.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 6 July 2020
• This loss will hurt, but the Ravens were due for a result like this.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 6 Dec. 2021
• Blink’s first album by the core trio in 11 years is due out on Oct. 20.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2023
• The options expire next year, and the tax bill will come due.
  — Tom Krisher, ajc, 17 Nov. 2021
• At least one famous Celtics fan gave the Bucks their due.
  — Emmett Prosser, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2022
• The line, typed out in quotes, could be a lyric from the album that’s due in just days, on April 19.
  — Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 14 Apr. 2024
• Who will bring him up, give him his due and keep telling the story?
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2021
• And if there’s no place to put the oil, no one wants a crude contract that is about to come due.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2020
• Those who want to join must have a baby due date by mid-March.
  — Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 4 Feb. 2022
• The squad makes due with a pair of plywood sheets as its launching pad.
  — Matty Wasserman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• All due respect to those who love that, and, and all that freedom, woo!
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 18 June 2022
• The deadlines for when these forms are due vary by district.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2021
• The message: with all due respect, ref, your eyes are wrong.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 6 July 2018
• The proud investor is due back in court for his next hearing at the end of August.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2023
• Your rental contract may state that rent is due in full.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023

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due

2 of 2 noun

• Workers are required to join the union and pay dues.
• He deserves to be given his due.
• Dues are increasing this year.
• Yet for many of us, Eros lives, and Eros wants its due.
  — Judith Newman, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
• Reno has been at the forefront of the effort to give Lewis her due.
  — Lucia Cheng, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2022
• For me there were about five to six years of paying dues.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Oct. 2018
• And not just the regular dues that folks all over the place have paid.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Now is not the time to worry about who votes which way and who pays union dues.
  — Alia Malik, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Mar. 2018
• Most of the group’s members pay their monthly dues of $50 on time.
  — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• Still, this is banquet where the best of the fest get their various dues.
  — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• Both give unions time to call workers and try to change the minds of those who want to stop paying dues.
  — Adam Ashton, sacbee, 4 June 2018
• On top of that, unions are braced for a slow bleed of full dues-paying members.
  — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2018
• Her ombre bob is split down the middle to give the tattoo its full due.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 30 Dec. 2021
• The fund is built up over time by UAW member dues, which can come to about 2-1/2 hours pay per month.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 23 Sep. 2019
• At least 65 members have paid 0% of their dues goals as of the latest filing.
  — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 1 May 2023
• He was raised on the west side and paid his dues in the mid-aughts hustling between three to four stand-up shows a night.
  — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
• And it gets couched under this bulls— about paying your dues.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2020
• Orsborn: Wright has paid his dues and is ready to take this big step in his career.
  — ExpressNews.com, 3 Aug. 2019
• In a right-to-work state, employees can't be required to pay union dues or fees.
  — John Seewer, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
• So the story goes, Norris was a man who never got his due.
  — Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Aug. 2022
• No less than 20 readers reached out to give Musial his due.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2021
• Just paying my dues and sending my prayers (out for all the victims).
  — Tom Orsborn, ExpressNews.com, 28 Feb. 2020
• Right-to-work allows those in unionized jobs to opt out of paying union dues and fees.
  — Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2023
• Perhaps the devil has not yet come calling for his due.
  — Quinta Jurecic, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
• The tragic elements of life on this patch of land, in this part of the country, are given their due.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
• But why pay union dues and give up stock options for nothing?
  — Kevin McGill, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
• But why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing?
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2018
• The student is unable to pay her senior dues (which have been reduced in cost).
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• Was there anyone on the planet that had their feeling for nature and had paid dues that great?
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 21 Apr. 2017
• Was there anyone on the planet that had their feeling for nature and had paid dues that great?
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 21 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 9 May 2024