How to Use IOU in a Sentence

IOU

noun

• Then the soldier’s bank deposits that $100 Fed-IOU into the soldier’s account.
  — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• Selling bonds—essentially issuing buyers an IOU, plus interest—is a quick way for a government to raise funds.
  — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
• If the soldier buys $100 of groceries from a grocer and pays by check, the grocer receives 10% of a Fed IOU, which goes through the grocer’s bank.
  — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• They will be delivered to those who preordered the dolls in January 2026, so Santa Claus may have to leave some IOU notes to fans across the country.
  — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
• When the grocer’s bank accepts the $100, and credits the grocer’s bank account, the grocer receives a different IOU, the bank’s IOU.
  — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• On a 2023 episode of Celebrity IOU, the Property Brothers built one into a kitchen island using marble countertops, dual bowls and a pot filler.
  — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026
• Since both Sling Blue and Sling Orange carry HGTV, either package works to catch weekly episodes of Celebrity IOU.
  — Erin Lassner, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019