Examples of owing to in a Sentence
She walks with a limp owing to a childhood injury.
owing to the extra snow days this year, we'll have to run an additional two days into June
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In 2021, the US approved a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) offer for 40 M109A6 units, but that deal was never fulfilled owing to undisclosed reasons.
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Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2025
CaBot diagnosed an obstruction in the small intestines, possibly owing to volvulus or a hernia.
—Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Between 2017 and 2021, the United States levied a number of restrictions against Huawei, asserting that the telecommunications company was a national security threat owing to its close relationship with the CCP and history of industrial espionage.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
The wandering solar system body was later classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) owing to its size/brightness and orbit, which give it the potential to one day make a threateningly close approach to Earth.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2025
CaBot diagnosed an obstruction in the small intestines, possibly owing to volvulus or a hernia.
—Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Between 2017 and 2021, the United States levied a number of restrictions against Huawei, asserting that the telecommunications company was a national security threat owing to its close relationship with the CCP and history of industrial espionage.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
The wandering solar system body was later classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) owing to its size/brightness and orbit, which give it the potential to one day make a threateningly close approach to Earth.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Owing to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/owing%20to. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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