How to Use owing to in a Sentence

owing to

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• She walks with a limp owing to a childhood injury.
• The GOP was pounded in the 2018 midterms owing to his low approval rating.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Nov. 2022
• There are no plans to bring it back, partly owing to space constraints, a spokesman said.
  — Harriet Baskas, NBC News, 30 July 2023
• The choir sounded muffled, owing to the fact that most people were singing through face masks.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2021
• Part of it is simply owing to the unique role the Senate plays in impeachment.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2024
• Still, some hotel groups say reservations slowed in the first weeks of summer, owing to the steep rise in prices for flights and rooms.
  — Colleen Barry, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
• Fleming’s fame is undimmed, in large part owing to the twenty-seven James Bond films.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• School had been closed that day, owing to plumbing problems.
  — Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• De Jong would edit the journal for five years before shutting it down in 1967 owing to a lack of funds.
  — News Desk, Artforum, 1 July 2024
• This is partly owing to the fact that Queens was never a single city, as Brooklyn once was.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 1 Oct. 2021
• And people may take pictures of their ballots, owing to a recent change in state law.
  — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• Great light, usually, owing to the building’s height over most of its neighbors.
  — Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023
• Home-school students could be playing on public-school teams this fall, owing to bills approved by the House and Senate.
  — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 28 May 2021
• She is forced to turn it down owing to her aerophobia, as extreme fear of flying in an airplane is known.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
• Please note there will not be a Capital Letter next week owing to travel plans.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Nov. 2023
• High took some time to find the right place — perhaps owing to some of the same obstacles faced by Butler and other women of color.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2023
• They were suspended for the past few years, owing to the pandemic, but resumed this summer.
  — Ben Rhodes, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2022
• Cans are also cheaper to make and transport, owing to their lower weight and ease of stacking, than glass bottles.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 13 Sep. 2021
• Five boys are stuck at the school, unable to go home, whether owing to familial disorder or, in the case of a Korean boy, distance.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
• Al Capone was said to be a regular, owing to the hotel’s close proximity to Union Station.
  — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024
• The bureau did not release the survey for 2020 because of sampling problems owing to the pandemic.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Sep. 2022
• In fact, $10bn is estimated to have been lost owing to ads that played only partially or off-screen.
  — Geoffroy Martin, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• Lucky Daye was also scheduled to perform but canceled owing to not feeling well.
  — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2022
• Ad revenue in the fourth quarter rose 1%, the company said, owing to 10% growth in Mexico outweighing a 5% dip in the United States.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
• Until recently, owing to the explosiveness of the subject, the White House has preferred to avoid talking about it.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 July 2024
• The effect of that reflects in the money pharma giants behind these drugs have made, owing to soaring demand.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 3 Nov. 2023
• We have been obliged to do so, owing to financial reality, and our readers and friends have sustained us.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 Dec. 2023
• In March 2020 as Covid hit, the state imposed a two-month moratorium on water shutoffs owing to unpaid bills.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
• And tensions have also been building owing to Maduro’s propensity to cause trouble.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024
• The region, claimed as the homeland of white racial purity—owing to a 1795 tract by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach—had by then been revealed to be less homogenous than reputed.
  — Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024