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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Between 2017 and 2021, the United States levied a number of restrictions against Huawei, asserting that the telecommunications company was a national security threat owing to its close relationship with the CCP and history of industrial espionage.
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Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
The wandering solar system body was later classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) owing to its size/brightness and orbit, which give it the potential to one day make a threateningly close approach to Earth.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
The natural rate of decline in output from the world's oil and gas fields is speeding up, owing to more reliance on shale and deep offshore resources, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.
—Seher Dareen, Reuters, 15 Sep. 2025
Monthly Workflow Based on this content, YourVoice Social churns out 20 possible content topics for client approval in bullets, not paragraphs, owing to time constraints.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
The wandering solar system body was later classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) owing to its size/brightness and orbit, which give it the potential to one day make a threateningly close approach to Earth.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
The natural rate of decline in output from the world's oil and gas fields is speeding up, owing to more reliance on shale and deep offshore resources, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.
—Seher Dareen, Reuters, 15 Sep. 2025
Monthly Workflow Based on this content, YourVoice Social churns out 20 possible content topics for client approval in bullets, not paragraphs, owing to time constraints.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for owing to
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“Owing to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/owing%20to. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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