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Example sentences for "owners"

Lexicographically close words:
own; owne; owned; owner; ownerless; ownership; ownest; owneth; owning; ownly
  1. The whole of the journey to Vigo was made in this powerful car, which the owners had been able to provide with an amply supply of petrol and food for a long and rapid flight, lasting well into the night.

  2. The German papers published appeals from the authorities asking dog owners to offer their pets for war purposes, and many thousands were obtained as a result.

  3. I can even tell you the exact figure at which the owners are willing to sell--eleven thousand five hundred pesetas.

  4. About one hundred and thirty years ago there seems to have arisen an extraordinary contest between the owners of waggons and those who repaired the highways.

  5. When the injury of one of these boys resulted in his death, we felt quite sure that the owners of the factory would share our horror and remorse, and that they would do everything possible to prevent the recurrence of such a tragedy.

  6. The copies thus made were delivered to the owners of the books, while the originals from which the copies were made were deposited in the Library.

  7. These copyists were sometimes employed to further the commercial enterprises of their owners also; for books generally had a marketable value--often a high commercial value--notwithstanding the dearth of intelligence and decline of learning.

  8. He had never been there, but he had used the cable in order to compete in pounds sterling with the British owners who wished to keep such valuable stock in their own country.

  9. The historic residence required an endless outlay; on that account it had changed owners so many times.

  10. And it did; for no sooner was the casket filed open by the police and its contents made known by a list, than owners began to crop up--crowds of them.

  11. Most of the large state firms have been converted into joint-stock companies, but the selling of shares and assets to private owners has been delayed.

  12. But the whigs are so little blameable for this, that two of the principal whigs in the province, gentlemen highly esteemed and beloved in the town, even by those who burnt the building, were owners of it.

  13. Westminster, and there gave unto divers of his householde servants about the number of threescore householdes and houses within the city, so that the owners were compelled to agree and redeem their houses, or else to avoyde them.

  14. It is generally affirmed that the aldermen were hereditary owners of the various wards, on account of the fact that the wards were named after them, an instance of which practice remains in Farringdon, Bassishaw and Basingshall.

  15. This indenture to the masters or owners of ships lasted until the boy reached 21.

  16. Also a notice was put in the newspaper for any owners to claim such.

  17. London may make a trench to bring water to the north part of the city and shall compensate the owners of lands by agreement with them of an amount or an amount determined by commissioners.

  18. Excepted are owners of dove cotes or pigeon houses erected for the preservation and breeding of such.

  19. Factory owners and leading landowners sat together on committees drawing up plans for public works such as canal building, obtained the necessary permits from public authorities and organized the whole enterprise.

  20. The owners ate in a private dining room and slept in their own rooms with down quilts.

  21. The owners of ships are not liable for losses by reason of theft without their knowledge by the master or mariners of goods beyond the value of the ship.

  22. Many shopkeepers and workshop owners in London were involved in leasing, purchases, and contracts.

  23. The capitalists first became owners of the materials, then of the implements, and then of the work places.

  24. Officers and seamen killed or wounded in the defense of a ship or who seize or destroy pirates may be paid by the owners an amount up to 2 pounds per 100 pounds of freight as determined by a group of disinterested merchants and the judge.

  25. Michigan Avenue Property Owners assessing you again to fight the choo-choo cars?

  26. Their owners bawled the merits and prices of these wares in a way to shock a certain irritable Guillaume de Villeneuve, who complains in querulous verse, "They do not cease to bray from morning until night.

  27. Its owners do this each year, they tell you, in honor of the great American who occupied the cottage in 1776.

  28. During the absences of the owners of grand city mansions, their maitres-d'hotel were allowed to let them to accredited visitors to the capital, who brought their own retinue and demanded only shelter.

  29. Among private owners the decline in the numbers of cattle and hogs was more pronounced, but substantial gains were made in the stock of sheep, goats, and poultry.

  30. May private owners of the earth's resources not use or destroy them as they see fit?

  31. The owners and I estimate that there is at least 20 percent larger crop this year in the orchard which had the heavy loss from blight last year.

  32. It affirmed the constitutionality of a Washington State law which requires the owners of land used for commercial logging to provide for its reforestation.

  33. The owners of the trees from which these nuts came supplied scion wood to raise grafted trees for trial at East Malling.

  34. The Asa, a branch of the Masai, hide the clippings of their hair and the parings of their nails or throw them away far from the kraal, lest a sorcerer should get hold of them and make their original owners ill by his magic.

  35. The Karens of Burma are perpetually anxious about their souls, lest these should go roving from their bodies, leaving the owners to die.

  36. In 1838 the Tithe Rentcharge Act, which transferred the payment of tithes from the occupiers to the owners of land, was passed, and thus a substantial grievance was removed.

  37. Chopart, on his return to the Natchez country, was full of great views, in which the rights of the old owners of the land did not count.

  38. Powhatan, the Indian emperor, as he was called, had long shown himself the friend of the whites, and friendly relations grew up between the new-comers and the old owners of the soil that continued unbroken for years.

  39. As Morgan rode on he continued his polite method of levying a tax from the mill-owners instead of burning their property.

  40. The old haversacks were deposited in a corner under the steps and their owners conducted downstairs to a spacious dining-room, quite prettily furnished.

  41. But now it was no longer necessary to persuade the owners of this same land to forgo their own interests for the sake of the public good.

  42. The only crops which are a matter of statistical record are those raised on the demesne land of those manors managed for their owners by bailiffs who made reports of the number of acres sown and the size of the harvest.

  43. While small holders in the open fields were in no position to pay higher rents, the land owners were suffering.

  44. By means of the pitiful wages paid for work, not one-half the comfort is provided by white masters to Indian servants that was secured to the black men in America, by the few of those owners of slaves who were really humane.

  45. Around it would be gathered the chivalry of the land, ready to lay down its life in the defence of the modern city; as its Aztec owners freely did, when it was the ancient Tenochtitlan.

  46. We should have far preferred the billet; and there were scores of grand "casas" whose owners richly deserved it.

  47. It is difficult to see why the taxpayers of an entire city should reward the church for enriching the few property-owners canny enough to secure land adjoining clerically owned property.

  48. Sharing all the social advantages, and bearing none of the social burden, its owners can bide their time through all the tips and downs of the market, sure to gain in the end.

  49. Her father told him very pointedly that since the owners of Pirate's Haven seemed to be indulging in law breaking, such a marriage was out of the question.

  50. As far as we know today, he and his brother were co-owners of Pirate's Haven.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "owners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.