Own

//ɑːn//

"Own" in a Sentence (33 examples)

Mathematicians are like French people: whatever you tell them they translate it into their own language and turn it into something totally different.

Nowadays we want our children to make their own decisions, but we expect those decisions to please us.

Most people only want to hear their own truth.

Try as you might, but you cannot force a belief onto someone else, much less your own self.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Do you have a room of your own?

You should attend to your own business.

You are the master of your own destiny.

You will have your own way.

You are old enough to stand on your own feet.

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The fathers shall not bee put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: euery man shall be put to death for his owne sinne.

Prospero: Fairely ſpoke ; / Sit then, and talke with her, ſhe is thine owne ;

I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.

He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

When we move into the new house, the kids will each have their own bedroom.

I own this car.

The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon.

I will own my enemies.

If he wins, he will own you.

All the ‘Milo OWNS stupid feminist’ type of videos today are made with much the same style as the new atheist videos that were equally numerous on YouTube a few years before with titles like ‘HITCHSLAP. Hitchens OWNS stupid Christian woman’.

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I must own that I have been at fault all this time.

I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.

For instance, when I flung the cat out of an upper window (though I did it from no ill-feeling, and it didn't hurt the cat), I was ready, after a moment's reflection, to own I was wrong, as a gentleman should.

I am sorry to own I began to worry then.

They learned how perfectly peaceful the home could be. And they almost regretted—though none of them would have owned to such callousness—that their father was soon coming back.

Two of those fellows you must know and own.

It must be owned, the good Jocelin, spite of his beautiful childlike character, is but an altogether imperfect 'mirror' of these old-world things!

"Well, I'm not hiding anymore! I'm owning my girly looks with cute short pink hair!"

Representative Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, told reporters that Democrats “own” the assassination of Mr. Kirk. When a reporter questioned her about attacks on Democrats, she cut him off. “Democrats own this,” she said. “We’re talking about Charlie Kirk right now.”

to own one as a son

the amount of bigots that just screenshot my profile thinking it's the biggest own is insane.

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