Example Sentences

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“If you do not rise to the head not only of your profession, but of your country, it will be owing to your own laziness, slovenliness and obstinacy.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2014

Hodson, of Hodson’s Horse, writing home to a friend in England, said, “I believe, if I get on well in India, it will be owing, physically speaking, to a sound digestion.”

From Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance by Smiles, Samuel

If this be done constantly, the evil will be effectually cured: if not, it will be owing to the neglect of the dairy maid.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

Here is an instance of love to devotion, and if it succeeds it will be owing to my daughter's intervention.

From The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Goldoni, Carlo

All the joy of my present prospects, all the comforts of my future life, are and will be owing to you.

From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Richardson, Samuel