Owing
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Owing a rather tidy sum to the restaurant owner (played by wily Adolphe Menjou), he is blackmailed into passing himself off as Russian royalty to charm a Yankee heiress.
More example sentences with word owing
A friend pointed out to me that all of my big stories mirrored my own, each centering on a life that had changed in an instant, owing, if not to a crash, then to an inheritance, a swing of the bat, a click of the shutter, an arrest.
One man's safety is
owing
to the destruction of another.
Same is true for organ failure, when you have loss of function
owing
to poor perfusion of kidney, of liver, acute respiratory distress syndrome and damage suffered in cardiac-bypass surgery.
The only thing that keeps the film interesting is the fact that we already know it's going to end badly for one reason or another,
owing
to the first scene.
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