Example Sentences

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“RIP good friend. I am sure you will be owning the panel discussion in heaven as well. And we’ll make sure your wise words and thoughts - your legacy - will live on here.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2018

“RIP good friend. I am sure you will be owning the panel discussion in heaven as well. And we’ll make sure your wise words and thoughts — your legacy — will live on here.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2018

You see, child, that to stay longer together, will be owning that you are debating about an absolute duty; and that will not be borne.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Richardson, Samuel

I hate to do it, for it will be owning up that I am not fit to care for myself or able to fight my own way in the world.

From Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast by Munroe, Kirk