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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The operating margin for the September quarter is expected to be in the range of 9% to 11%, owing to reduction in non-fuel unit cost.
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Ankita Dhawan, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
Early in a five-on-five drill, DeVries gathers the Hoosiers at one end of the floor and — quietly, likely owing to who’s in the audience — more or less tells his team to pick up its energy and get its act together.
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 11 July 2025
But areas around the Guadalupe River have also long been prone to flash flooding, owing to the rugged terrain and the river’s non-absorbent limestone bed.
—Michelle Krupa, CNN Money, 7 July 2025
Compare that to the Tesla Model 3, which, under ideal circumstances, can juice up by about 175 miles (280 km) in a 15-minute stop, owing to a maximum capacity of 250 kW on its network of Superchargers.
—New Atlas, 6 July 2025
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Ankita Dhawan, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
Early in a five-on-five drill, DeVries gathers the Hoosiers at one end of the floor and — quietly, likely owing to who’s in the audience — more or less tells his team to pick up its energy and get its act together.
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 11 July 2025
But areas around the Guadalupe River have also long been prone to flash flooding, owing to the rugged terrain and the river’s non-absorbent limestone bed.
—Michelle Krupa, CNN Money, 7 July 2025
Compare that to the Tesla Model 3, which, under ideal circumstances, can juice up by about 175 miles (280 km) in a 15-minute stop, owing to a maximum capacity of 250 kW on its network of Superchargers.
—New Atlas, 6 July 2025
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“Owing to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/owing%20to. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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