With all due respect to his athletic skill, Gronkowski is not high on the list of NFL players that elicit carnal thoughts.
I was pregnant, uncomfortably so, for the first time and with twins, due the following March.
But most of this gap, say the researchers who carried out the study, is due to discrimination.
There were also crashes not due to either mechanical or human error but to a lack of warning of dangerous conditions.
due to the video lacking audio, what they were fighting about remains a mystery—“was Jay cheating?”
They've put lots of good weight-carriers off the track before they was due to go.
All is prepared—the table and the feast— With due appurtenance of clothes and cushions.
Boy, they be not due to you till you be come to years of discretion.
I don't want to trouble him, but I was bound he shouldn't keep from me what was rightly my due.
Often enough these innovations were not due to the cleverness of man's brain.
early 14c., "customary, regular;" mid-14c., "owing, payable," from Old French deu, past participle of devoir "to owe," from Latin debere "to owe" (see debt).
In reference to points of the compass (e.g. due east) it is attested from c.1600, originally nautical, from notion of "fitting, rightful." As an adverb from 1590s; as a noun from early 15c. Prepositional phrase due to (much maligned by grammarians) is from 1897.
