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Example sentences for "owned"

Lexicographically close words:
owlish; owlishly; owls; own; owne; owner; ownerless; owners; ownership; ownest
  1. You see, you owned that you could make the raft seaworthy in five minutes.

  2. As Carey owned afterwards to the doctor and Bostock, he still felt a little white, and his heart was beating heavily.

  3. In California and Mexico, previous to the revolution that caused the sequestration of the church domains, her mission-houses owned nearly all the territory of the State.

  4. As it is, we are ruled indirectly by photoplays owned and controlled by men who should be in the shoe-string and hook-and-eye trade.

  5. The million dollar mystery was: why did the millionaires who owned such a magnificent instrument descend to such silliness and impose it on the people?

  6. But a fellow was up from Peehawket--that old fellow that owned the catboat--and he came to the bank and told Mr. Thompson.

  7. Unlike Lorna Nicholet he did not remember that Ralph Endicott owned such an ornament.

  8. He owned no night glasses, and unless the endangered schooner came within range of the light's beam there would be small chance of spying her.

  9. Lorna's aunt, Miss Ida Nicholet of Harbor Bar, and head of the family, owned the rambling old house overlooking the mouth of the bay.

  10. No, my lord, said she, it is not so; God hath owned him, and done much good by him.

  11. He often sighed to think that there was no chance for him to benefit by a share of the large property owned by his cousins.

  12. A good deal of our village is owned by a New York man, to whom we have to pay rent.

  13. Frank did not like to admit his poverty, but owned up that he had less than two dollars.

  14. Frank made inquiries of a kindly man who owned a clean little store on one of the streets.

  15. Many years ago, Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, in Europe, owned a bear which had become very tame, and which was remarkable for the strength of his love for those whom he happened to fancy.

  16. Somebody who owned several tame ones, tells us that whenever any of them quarreled, the father instantly ran among them, and at once peace and order were restored.

  17. Every morning, regularly, at the hour of starting, he makes his appearance, though he is not owned by any one engaged in the boat, and treats himself to this novel excursion.

  18. But Clements had already owned it was a mere "obiter dictum,"--nothing but a joke of prudent marriage against extravagant bachelorship.

  19. Durand-Ruel once owned the Annunciation, but sold it to Mrs. H.

  20. Bernard's--Tanguy was the only person in Paris who bought and owned pictures by Cézanne.

  21. It was owned by a company, one of whose members was Nathan Appleton.

  22. The vessels of war owned by the republic, previous to the conflict with the United States, were either sold, or disarmed, dismantled and laid up, when the nation was menaced with an attack.

  23. The Spanish trade was carried on by the mother country in Spanish vessels exclusively, and these ships were not owned by or permitted to become the permanent property of the colonists.

  24. They were slaves of different masters, only one of them, Optatus, being owned by Capito himself.

  25. In antiquity municipalities, as well as individuals, owned slaves.

  26. To rent, from the first day of next July, shops with the floors over them, fine upper chambers, and a house, in the Arrius Pollio block owned by Gnaeus Alleius Nigidius Maius.

  27. Nero, owned a hot spring which gushed up out of the sea.

  28. Mr. Cannel, who owned a coal-mine, sat in front of Paul.

  29. I would have tarried that night with her, but they that owned her would not suffer it.

  30. Three vessels arrived in Baltimore loaded with ice, and eight hulks were used for storing it, two at a cost of L20 a month, the others were owned by a company of fish buyers, at a cost of L1 5s.

  31. At one time or another, he must have owned between four and five thousand different pistols and revolvers.

  32. Rivers claimed, I suppose, that he had gotten it from a family that had owned it ever since it was made, and showed letters signed 'D.

  33. Whoever had owned it before me had pasted a slip of paper on the underside of the stock, between the trigger-guard and the lower ramrod thimble, with a lot of crap, mostly erroneous, typed on it.

  34. A letter from Vargas y Ponce to Cean Bermudez, dated 1797, says that in this year there existed at Murcia a school for making blondes, owned by one Castilla.

  35. According to Tramoyeres, most of the Valencian trade-guilds owned a building in fee-simple, and often gave the title of their craft to the entire street in which that edifice was situated.

  36. Through that process, Holmes yachts could be owned by people who weren't millionaires.

  37. Cro-Magnons, his uncle said, had owned the objects.

  38. The parent tree is now owned by a son of the late Henry Adams, Mr. H.

  39. GREEN--The parent tree of the Green sweet hickory is owned by Mr. Steve Green, R.

  40. It was on a farm then owned by Mr. Daniel Beck, R.

  41. The third large orchard planting in Illinois is located at Farina and owned by the Whitford family.

  42. Probably it was because they were so remote, and the companies owned everything in sight.

  43. One owned by Alf Raymond, the sheriff-emperor, and the other by Vagleman, counsel for the 'G.

  44. Hal had come to a town owned by Edward's business friends, and had proceeded to meddle in their affairs, to stir up their labouring people and imperil their property.

  45. The Scotchman seemed to find it equally funny; together they explained that Graham was the political reporter of the Eagle, the paper in Pedro which was owned by the Sheriff-emperor.

  46. The dining-room of this boarding-house, owned and managed by the G.

  47. Chillon accused him, and he regretfully grinned; he would have owned to it eloquently, excited by the extreme ingenuity, but humour at the criminal bar is an abject thing, that has to borrow from metaphysics for the expository words.

  48. For his part, comparison rushing at him and searching him, he owned that he leaned on pride.

  49. He has owned he is her husband: he has not disavowed the consequence.

  50. She had submitted, had forgotten his icy strangeness, had thought him love; and hers was a breast for love, it was owned by the sobbing rise of her breast at the thought.

  51. He owned he might have been mistaken, as the brilliant fellow flew swift and high between leaves, like an ordinary fritillary.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "owned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    held; own; possessed