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 book is still due out next week.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Your loan will come due at that time.
    Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 9 June 2026
  • Her child, a boy, is due this year.
    Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 10 May 2026
  • This is due in large part to how the group works.
    Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Any tax owed was still due in April.
    Dallas Morning News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Stoian is due back in court April 2.
    Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Arias is due back in court on June 5.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 12 May 2026
  • Uh, with all due respect, why not?
    Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Even the great door debate gets its due.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
  • The pair is due in court early next month.
    Shelley Bortz, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The dates will be confirmed in due course.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 23 June 2026
  • More names will be revealed in due course.
    Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 23 June 2026
  • Burke is due back in court later this week.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Hart is next due in court April 16.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Saine is out on bond and is due in court in June.
    Wcco Staff, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Today, the sun will rise due east and set due west.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • This was due in large part to the women in the video.
    Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
  • The checks are time to go out when school taxes are due.
    Marcia Kramer, CBS News, 16 June 2026
  • Allen is due back in court on June 29.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 11 May 2026
  • Smith is due back in court on June 15.
    Alysia Burgio, CBS News, 8 June 2026
  • Fiseku is due back in court on March 13.
    Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The store, the third for the brand, is due by summer.
    Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Scott is due back in court on April 13.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Hayes is next due in court on March 31.
    Matt Schooley, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Reynoso is due back in court on April 27.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • His wife is pregnant and due any day now with their third child.
    Briseida Holguin, CBS News, 29 June 2026

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.
  • Even the great door debate gets its due.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Some say he's already earned his due.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • His dues would be close to $5,000 a year.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • But why pay union dues and give up stock options for nothing?
    Kevin McGill, ajc, 31 Mar. 2023
  • This one never gets its proper due.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • And it gets couched under this bulls— about paying your dues.
    Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Here, though, his passing is given its due.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026
  • And not just the regular dues that folks all over the place have paid.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • On top of that, unions are braced for a slow bleed of full dues-paying members.
    Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Or it was not given the due that people needed.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Her ombre bob is split down the middle to give the tattoo its full due.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Reno has been at the forefront of the effort to give Lewis her due.
    Lucia Cheng, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2022
  • Still, this is banquet where the best of the fest get their various dues.
    Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Just paying my dues and sending my prayers (out for all the victims).
    Tom Orsborn, ExpressNews.com, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Most of the group’s members pay their monthly dues of $50 on time.
    Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Well, to start with, critics don’t give comedy its due.
    Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
  • 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
  • In states without right-to-work laws, those dues are mandatory.
    Kelly Chen, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Cumberbatch agreed that comedies rarely get their due at awards shows.
    Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Right-to-work allows those in unionized jobs to opt out of paying union dues and fees.
    Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Then, the very first week of classes, my daughter’s senior dues had to be turned in.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In a right-to-work state, employees can't be required to pay union dues or fees.
    John Seewer, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Who knows if our competition in the second and third round gave us our due.
    Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The claim is that unions are forced to represent nonmembers who pay no dues.
    Akash Chougule, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The student is unable to pay her senior dues (which have been reduced in cost).
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • 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

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