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
• There is a plan to transfer that debt to those who don’t owe it.
  — WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
• A quarter of adults with health care debt owe more than $5,000.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
• 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
• In the 2nd Essex, the thin margins could owe to new boundaries.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
• Adams is owed $35.6 million salaries each of the past two seasons.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
• The world appears to be both unjust and to owe us something.
  — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2022
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes wouldn’t seem to owe an obvious debt to the films of James Cameron.
  — Simon Thompson, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
• Taylor is in the final year of his deal and is owed $17 million.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
• Here's what you're owed if your flight is canceled or delayed by the storm.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
• There are many reasons why you may be owed money and not be aware of it.
  — New York Daily News Special Sections, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2025
• 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
• The Minnesota Vikings owe much of their success this season to the right foot of Greg Joseph.
  — Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2022
• 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
• The documentary is more about what society owed Carl Lewis than what Carl Lewis owes society at this point.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2025
• The city will also likely owe a substantial amount to pay his lawyers for their time and expenses, which will be determined by a judge at a later date.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2025

Last Updated: 25 Mar 2025