How to Use due in a Sentence

due

1 of 2 adjective

• The bill is due at the end of the month.
• The balance is now due.
• My wife is due in three weeks.
• The amount due is 45 dollars.
• The final report of the study is due by the end of the year.
  — Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 27 June 2019
• But the teams have been unable to agree on the amounts due.
  — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• Briefs from both sides are due over the next three weeks.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• With the change, a menu makeover that’s been a long time in the works is due soon.
  — James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 12 Oct. 2017
• That said, a refreshing at the back of the bullpen was due.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• This is due in part to the fact that the air is getting cleaner.
  — Steven Barrett, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2020
• The options expire next year, and the tax bill will come due.
  — Tom Krisher, ajc, 17 Nov. 2021
• The squad makes due with a pair of plywood sheets as its launching pad.
  — Matty Wasserman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• The deadlines for when these forms are due vary by district.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2021
• The mortgage was due, yet he hadn’t been paid in more than a month.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 6 July 2020
• That’s when the Rangers are due their next rights payment.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 2 June 2023
• Who will bring him up, give him his due and keep telling the story?
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2021
• Your rental contract may state that rent is due in full.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• Meghan's due date is sometime in the spring, and that's just around the corner.
  — Araceli Cruz, Teen Vogue, 5 Nov. 2018
• The charm and power of that unique time gets its due in this exhibit.
  — Barry Mazor, WSJ, 6 June 2018
• This loss will hurt, but the Ravens were due for a result like this.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 6 Dec. 2021
• Providers did not have an alert system to know when patients were due for the urine tests.
  — Author: Felicia Fonseca, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2019
• And if there’s no place to put the oil, no one wants a crude contract that is about to come due.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2020
• At least one famous Celtics fan gave the Bucks their due.
  — Emmett Prosser, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2022
• Those who want to join must have a baby due date by mid-March.
  — Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 4 Feb. 2022
• This penalty can apply even if no tax is due on the return.
  — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• But don’t worry that flesh and blood will not be given their due.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
• All due respect to those who love that, and, and all that freedom, woo!
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 18 June 2022
• In due time Levis may be playing golf and football with them all.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2022
• With all due respect, this is not true for a couple of reasons.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• The message: with all due respect, ref, your eyes are wrong.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 6 July 2018

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due

2 of 2 noun

• Workers are required to join the union and pay dues.
• He deserves to be given his due.
• Dues are increasing this year.
• For me there were about five to six years of paying dues.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Oct. 2018
• And not just the regular dues that folks all over the place have paid.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Now is not the time to worry about who votes which way and who pays union dues.
  — Alia Malik, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Mar. 2018
• Reno has been at the forefront of the effort to give Lewis her due.
  — Lucia Cheng, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2022
• Her ombre bob is split down the middle to give the tattoo its full due.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 30 Dec. 2021
• Both give unions time to call workers and try to change the minds of those who want to stop paying dues.
  — Adam Ashton, sacbee, 4 June 2018
• Still, this is banquet where the best of the fest get their various dues.
  — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• Perhaps the devil has not yet come calling for his due.
  — Quinta Jurecic, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
• Yet for many of us, Eros lives, and Eros wants its due.
  — Judith Newman, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
• And it gets couched under this bulls— about paying your dues.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2020
• But why pay union dues and give up stock options for nothing?
  — Kevin McGill, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
• On top of that, unions are braced for a slow bleed of full dues-paying members.
  — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2018
• Who knows if our competition in the second and third round gave us our due.
  — Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• He got kicked out two years later for nonpayment of dues.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• The claim is that unions are forced to represent nonmembers who pay no dues.
  — Akash Chougule, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
• But why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing?
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2018
• Was there anyone on the planet that had their feeling for nature and had paid dues that great?
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 21 Apr. 2017
• Was there anyone on the planet that had their feeling for nature and had paid dues that great?
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 21 Apr. 2017
• Just paying my dues and sending my prayers (out for all the victims).
  — Tom Orsborn, ExpressNews.com, 28 Feb. 2020
• He was raised on the west side and paid his dues in the mid-aughts hustling between three to four stand-up shows a night.
  — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
• So the story goes, Norris was a man who never got his due.
  — Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Aug. 2022
• Right-to-work allows those in unionized jobs to opt out of paying union dues and fees.
  — Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2023
• Should anyone be provided back pay for past union dues?
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2019
• The student is unable to pay her senior dues (which have been reduced in cost).
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• The tragic elements of life on this patch of land, in this part of the country, are given their due.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
• In a right-to-work state, employees can't be required to pay union dues or fees.
  — John Seewer, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
• Some proponents of right to work argue that non-members shouldn't have to pay union dues.
  — Allison Kite, kansascity, 20 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024