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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That’s owing to insufficient data to rank them.
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New Atlas, 26 Dec. 2025
Cornell’s actual studio was in the basement of a house on Utopia Parkway in Flushing, where the artist lived for most of his adult life, along with his mother and a brother who needed caretaking, owing to cerebral palsy.
—Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
The Rolling Stones will no longer embark on a planned, though never formally announced, 2026 stadium tour throughout Europe, owing to Keith Richards’s unwillingness to subject himself to the stress of such a rigorous schedule.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
Even before his ascent to energy secretary, Moniz was controversial among progressives owing to his prior advisory work for energy companies such as British Petroleum and General Electric.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 18 Dec. 2025
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New Atlas, 26 Dec. 2025
Cornell’s actual studio was in the basement of a house on Utopia Parkway in Flushing, where the artist lived for most of his adult life, along with his mother and a brother who needed caretaking, owing to cerebral palsy.
—Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
The Rolling Stones will no longer embark on a planned, though never formally announced, 2026 stadium tour throughout Europe, owing to Keith Richards’s unwillingness to subject himself to the stress of such a rigorous schedule.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
Even before his ascent to energy secretary, Moniz was controversial among progressives owing to his prior advisory work for energy companies such as British Petroleum and General Electric.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 18 Dec. 2025
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“Owing to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/owing%20to. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.
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