How to Use owe in a Sentence

owe

verb

• I still owe on the car.
• I owe you a drink.
• I owe the bank a lot of money.
• I owe you my thanks.
• We owe no income tax.
• She still owes me for all the times I've helped her out.
• Additional payments are owed on the mortgage.
• Once the stock was sold, your son owed taxes on those gains.
  — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
• Baldwin remains free and does not owe bond to the court.
  — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 23 Feb. 2023
• Others wonder what the past is owed — and for how long.
  — Michael S. Williamson, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
• And Bowling Green comes in third, with 212 workers owed back pay.
  — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 8 Jan. 2024
• Most were paid off, Ray said, but the building owners still owed roughly $1,700 by the end of April.
  — oregonlive, 16 May 2023
• The fans played a big part in Everton’s Premier League survival at the end of 2022, and the board owe them one.
  — James Nalton, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• Under the terms of the reverse mortgage, the lender has the right to sell the home to satisfy the debt owed on the reverse mortgage.
  — Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2023
• The New York Yankees are on the hook for the remainder of the $19 million owed Hicks this season and next.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
• The end result is that a state does not collect vast sums of tax revenue it was owed.
  — Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Amounts owed will now be paid by Dish Network to an EchoStar subsidiary.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
• Many of us owe our San Diego following to Carey’s work, his taste, his sweat, his tears.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2023
• Book even said, matter of fact, Book owe me some money.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2023
• The letter explains that the debt listed is no longer owed and has been canceled.
  — Tyler Spence, The Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2024
• Lula said Maduro owes an explanation to Brazilians and the rest of the world.
  — Gabriela Sá Pessoa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
• But the out-of-the-blue decision to close left baristas and cooks out of work and missing paychecks they were still owed.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• But most of us owe at least some moral debt to reality.
  — Max Chafkin, Bloomberg.com, 3 Jan. 2023
• Residuals are paid out at the same time to everybody who is owed them.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
• But airlines have the right to make changes and only owe you a refund in certain cases.
  — Natalie B. Compton, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2023
• Which is kind of what St. Augustine said: God doesn’t owe us happy lives.
  — Wyatt Mason, New York Times, 27 July 2023
• And consumers already owe almost $1 trillion on their charge cards, up 17% jump from last year and a record high.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 May 2023
• This dark pair owes its vintage vibes to the contrast stitching (be sure to check out the back), super-high waist and relaxed wide legs.
  — Paula Lee, Glamour, 7 Nov. 2023
• But the shift owes largely to Harris’ underperformance in both regions.
  — Jasmine Cui, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2024
• Rudy Giuliani owes two Georgia poll workers $148 million for defaming them.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024