How to Use beholden to in a Sentence

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• Painters were beholden to those wealthy people bankrolling them.
  — Michael Ashley, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
• Do not feel beholden to folks who aren’t part of your inner circle.
  — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• Like many Democrats these days, Biden feels beholden to the wealthy.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
• Why are the people in charge of college football so beholden to the bowls?
  — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
• The process requires you to not be so beholden to your atmosphere.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 29 Mar. 2023
• This can prevent you from being beholden to whatever is in stock, at that time, at that price.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 24 Oct. 2024
• This is a grassroots campaign — Vivek is not beholden to the donor class to fund his campaign.
  — Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner, 20 July 2023
• This label is not beholden to one genre or one particular sound.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2023
• As a fall jacket it can be styled in a myriad of ways, and isn't really beholden to trends.
  — Erin Parker, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2024
• Nor would Democrats beholden to wealthy and corporate donors be inclined to fight for such funding.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• My campaign is beholden to no one but the people, as a people and dignity first campaign.
  — Mansoor Shams, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2026
• In pre-industrial days, beer making used to be more beholden to the weather and the seasons.
  — Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026
• These ladies are forced to make impossible choices to avoid being beholden to the whims and tempers of the men in their lives.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 June 2024
• And at the end of the day, even the highest minded universities stay beholden to bottom lines and trustees.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Mar. 2026
• The president – a former left-wing minister – is now beholden to the support of the far right.
  — Saskya Vandoorne, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
• Many, including the present one, are beholden to Shiite militias with strong ties to Iran.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
• Politicians beholden to the gun lobby will blame this, and every other, mass shooting on mental illness.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
• But that also makes Paltrow her own boss, who is not beholden to others for work, and has brought her a devoted set of customer-fans.
  — Andrew Dalton and Sam Metz, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
• Both have sought to paint the former UN ambassador as beholden to Wall Street.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2024
• The play comes in throwing elbows, ready to épater la bourgeoisie, but ends up feeling rather respectful of and beholden to the classics.
  — Vulture, 28 Feb. 2023
• Transformed, that is, in favor of the students who were once beholden to the collective, antiquated will of a bunch of old white men in suits.
  — Andrea Williams, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
• That undermines the very trust in the nature of the democratic project — the sense that the government isn’t corrupt and beholden to a few.
  — Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 20 Mar. 2026
• Rather than being beholden to someone else’s platform—like a television network—Cooper has been able to build her own.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 19 June 2025
• And the biggest artists in music are usually in control of pricing, while smaller artists are usually beholden to the venues.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 29 July 2023
• In contrast, Ceolwulf has gone down in history as a puppet ruler beholden to the Vikings.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2023
• Instead of worrying about ratings, the new late-night creators are directly beholden to their viewers.
  — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 19 Feb. 2026
• Critics slammed the last-minute deals as evidence that Netanyahu remains beholden to his most extreme partners.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
• But all 17 are still beholden to the 10 Power Four game requirement.
  — Payton Titus, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
• The new prime minister is now beholden to these extremists and the two ultra-Orthodox parties who will have a long list of demands.
  — Aaron David Miller, CNN, 3 Nov. 2022
• Writers think the upshot of the studios’ demand is that they will be pushed to do more with less by executives beholden to shareholders rather than the creative process.
  — Erica Werner, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2023