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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Residuals are paid out at the same time to everybody who is owed them.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 19 Oct. 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
• Ayton, a former No. 1 overall pick by the Suns, is owed more than $69 million over the next two seasons.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 27 June 2024
• After the deal, Johnson & Johnson will not owe any stock in Kenvue.
  — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 13 May 2024
• The family still owed monthly rent on their East Palestine house.
  — Emily Baumgaertner Brian Kaiser, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• In 1967, for example, Boris Karloff owed Mr. Corman two days’ work.
  — Aljean Harmetz, New York Times, 12 May 2024
• In total, the court said Blackstock owed Clarkson $2.6 million.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2024
• Arguably, voters are owed a plan that would address these problems.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2024
• The plan implied but did not order the removal of French troops from the Ruhr, and the committee did not even address the thorny issue of the total owed by Germany, leaving that to future discussion.
  — Cyrus Veeser / Made By History, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024