Example Sentences

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"I haven't a cent, and am owing two hundred dollars in Philadelphia."

From The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus by Alger, Horatio

"The next thing is the bit money I am owing to Cluny," I went on.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis

I fear you are only losing your time in New York, and that I shall be left in debt for what I am owing the firm.

From Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House by Keckley, Elizabeth

And that little beggar; I am owing you for him, too.

From Sir Tom by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

“I have a position, but it does not pay me very much yet,” said the young fellow, “and—and—I am owing considerable, and—I need some things.”

From The Debtor A Novel by Stevens, William Dodge