How do you use Owes in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Owes meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of owe
Using Owes
- The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of owe
- In the example corpus, owes often appears in combinations such as: he owes, owes the, it owes.
Context around Owes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 7 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Owes
- In this selection, "owes" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, smartworks, government, matawalle, nothing, former and workers stand out and add context to how "owes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aaron hernandez owes more than and and he owes it to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "owes" sits close to words such as apprentice, bubbles and confinement, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with owes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He owes it to his country. (6 words)
Cilento owes his introduction to Fosse to a fellow choreographer, Graciela Daniele. (12 words)
Arkansas owes a Jewish man $500 but won’t pay up because he. (13 words)
He added that he knows he owes a lot of people apologies and wants to prove he's changed with his actions -- adding, "I do need to have a talk with Maci because there's a lot of things I've done that just were really s----y. (48 words)
But NCP Ltd owes almost £4 million to Bolton Council after it missed the payment over the course of the crisis as its car parks were closed or unused due to lockdowns and restrictions. (34 words)
By the way, the highest the Saints pick can be in theory now is No. 3 since Houston and Chicago can’t win enough to get below the selection New Orleans owes to Philly. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
The suicide note said that Republic TV owes Rs 83 lakhs to the designer, while IcastX owed dues over Rs 400 lakhs and Nitesh Sarda of Smartworks owes Rs 55 lakhs.
The revolutionary government owes to the good citizen all the protection of the nation; it owes nothing to the enemies of the people but death..
Adeyanju said Tinubu should appoint qualified technocrats as ministers because he owes former governors nothing.
Also, findings revealed that the outgoing governor, Bello Matawalle, owes workers two months’ salaries.
And according to recent court filings from the Internal Revenue Service, Mr Giuliani owes more than half a million dollars in federal taxes.
A new by the Worker Rights Consortium estimates that Ramatex – which closed the factory in June 2020 – owes these workers about US$1.4 million in total.
Arkansas owes a Jewish man $500 but won’t pay up because he.
Attorneys for 1501 and Crawford countersued, saying Pete is the one who owes it money.
Based on's novel of the same namethis Regency-era confection clearly owes a debt to for its racially diverse cast and candy-colored costuming.
But Bellingham also owes much of his success on the pitch to his father Mark, a retired non-league footballer.
But NCP Ltd owes almost £4 million to Bolton Council after it missed the payment over the course of the crisis as its car parks were closed or unused due to lockdowns and restrictions.
By the way, the highest the Saints pick can be in theory now is No. 3 since Houston and Chicago can’t win enough to get below the selection New Orleans owes to Philly.
Cilento owes his introduction to Fosse to a fellow choreographer, Graciela Daniele.
Daniel seems to be in good health, and he owes it to a drink he claims is good for mental focus.
DC Comics owes much of its history to Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's creation, Superman.
Elena Ferrante herself owes so much to neorealism, and it’s she who has driven the rediscovery of Céspedes.
Gemini offered a crypto lending product called Earn in partnership with Genesis, and now says Genesis owes it US$900 million in connection with that product.
George Rizer / Boston Globe via Getty ImagesThe estate of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez owes more than $530,000 to the state of Connecticut.
He added that he knows he owes a lot of people apologies and wants to prove he's changed with his actions -- adding, "I do need to have a talk with Maci because there's a lot of things I've done that just were really s----y.
He owes it to his country.
Common combinations with owes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- he owes 29×
- owes the 18×
- it owes 17×
- owes its 13×
- owes to 11×
- owes it 10×
- owes him 9×
- owes her 9×
- also owes 7×
- owes lot 7×