Sentence for own | Use own in a sentence

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• I have to own it. (10)
• Out of her own mouth! (8)
• I have given up my own. (10)
• Was it not an unstained morning, my own! (10)
• Let the poor men call their souls their own! (8)
• Well, it was his own lookout! (8)
• A fellow must live his own life. (8)
• Guy persevered in his own fashion. (10)
• I know your mind as well as my own. (10)
• It was so exactly her own point of view. (8)
• Threads of my own hair Are woven in it. (10)
• We are strong in our own element, Louisa. (10)
• Could she not go riding with her own father? (8)
• Clementina replied with a question of her own. (9)
• His own subjugation was the first fruit of his effort. (10)
• Neither time, nor health, nor life, to be called your own. (4)
• I do so believe in people doing things of their own accord. (8)
• I ought to know when my own heart is broken, I should hope. (9)
• Not a day of her, not an hour, not a single look had been his own. (10)
• Harsh trials had made me think of my own fortunes more than of his. (10)
• He had explained away all the appearance of neglect on his own side. (4)
• The cynicism of his own reflection struck him between wind and water. (8)
• But he could not have thought it possible for a man to own it publicly. (10)
• Had she seen him with the eyes of the world, thinking they were her own? (10)
• He held a letter in his hand, for which her own was pleadingly extended. (10)
• Quickly recollecting the presence of his family, he rushed to his own room. (10)
• The same degree was conferred on him at his own University a few weeks later. (14)
• It runs with eyes turned inward to its own light, oblivious of all other stars. (8)
• And a kind of bitterness at the tenacity of his own admiration welled up in him. (8)
• Now here am I, and my own pale mother trying at every turn to get in front of me. (10)
• But even in the red heat of passion his born diplomacy withheld his own signature. (10)
• The landlord put her neat bundle under the seat of the buckboard with his own hand. (9)
• Pole had endowed them with a temperament similar to his own; and he had educated it. (10)
• His authority was now to be thought of: his paternal sanction was in his own keeping. (10)
• Houses are snowed up, and wayfarers lost in a flurry within hail of their own fireside. (2)
• Cornelia laughed inwardly, and marked with pain that his own humour gave him no merriment. (10)
• She has her own way of showing devotion, and her own way of feeling grief. (12)
• To be ashamed of his own father is perhaps the bitterest experience a young man can go through. (8)
• Yet the good have their own pain, a different kind of aching, for we shall never get them back. (8)
• Was it possible that he had the habit of carrying his own riches through the streets of London? (22)
• The ruddy Northman told some tales of his own prowess in keeping order: notably one of a Marquis. (2)
• And she can arm Her dwarfed and twisted with her secret charm; Benevolent as Earth to feed her own. (10)
• And these shadowy figures, wrapped each in his own little shroud of fog, took no notice of each other. (8)
• The waters are broken, and every nerve and sinew of the artist is strained to discover his own safety. (8)
• Here, if you like, was a sanitary parable, addressed by our uncleanly forefathers to their own neglect. (2)
• Men and happenings whirl through them so that I find it hard to retain a consciousness of my own self. (12)
• There stood at the same time a full-statured strength of will in his eyes, under which her own fainted. (22)
• He very often is the inventor of his own apparatus and this has to be exact in shape, size and strength. (21)
• His evils seemed to lessen, her own advantages to increase, their mutual good to outweigh every drawback. (4)
• You will come to me, I assure you; and you will come not only when I summon you, but of your own impulse. (12)
• Not to be the idol, to have an aim of our own, there lies the truer pride, if we intend respect of ourselves. (10)
• The sight of them did not sting her like the sight of those lovers in the Park; they were not of her own order. (8)
• They strolled about the city, glad for reasons of their own to be out of Milan as long as the leave permitted. (10)
• Till you chose to turn her into a friend, her mind had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it. (4)
• Was it her own strength, inspired by some sublime force, that had sprung up suddenly to eject a worthless love? (10)
• Suddenly she started off at a quick stride to her own room, saying that it must be sleepiness which affected her so. (10)
• It might throw an added light, albeit a lurid one, upon such doubt of her sanity as her own assertion had not dispelled. (1)
• Sir Thomas, poor Sir Thomas, a parent, and conscious of errors in his own conduct as a parent, was the longest to suffer. (4)
• I knew that both parties were gaining at the public expense, to their own profit and the tremendous profit of the gas company. (16)
• His voice had grown hurried, so that he hardly knew it for his own, and twice he jerked his head back as if struggling for breath. (8)
• He left his wife where she stood half hook-and-eyed at her glass in her new dress, and went down to his own den beyond the parlour. (9)
• Modestine, suddenly beginning to smell mischief, bettered the pace of her own accord, and from that time forward gave me no trouble. (2)
• Perhaps the street has some positive grandeur of its own, though it needs a multitude of people in it to bring out its best effects. (9)
• Then he made a sign to the Cadi and them that had witnessed the contract to follow him, leaving the betrothed ones to their own company. (10)
• The latter delivered a brief essay on Gallic blood; the former maintained that Frenchmen were the best judges of their own ways and deeds. (10)
• Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. (2)

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Definition of own:

• own, n, v.t. to grant: to allow to be true: concede: acknowledge. (0) | own, n, v.t. to possess: to be the rightful owner of. (0) | own, n, adj. possessed: belonging to one’s self and to no other: peculiar. | ns. own’er, one who owns or possesses; own’ership, state of being an owner: right of possession. (0)

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