owe
be obliged to pay or repay
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,500 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,807 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- be obliged to pay or repay
- be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory
- be in debt She owes me $200I still owe for the car
owe in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Remember! we owe something to your husband.
How He Lied to Her Husband · Bernard Shaw · Chapter 1
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And by the way, Father, you owe us an extra Ourday.
Marjorie's Maytime · Carolyn Wells · Chapter 1
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I shall repair my follies: what I owe, I shall pay.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Doubtless they owe some of that for their mother's funeral and their own mourning.
The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls · L. T. Meade · Chapter 2
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We owe our thanks to the Rev. E. Warre, of Eton College, for certain corrections on nautical points.
The Odyssey of Homer · 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer · Chapter 1