How to Use indebted in a Sentence

indebted

adjective
  • Gone is the low-budget solo show that was deeply indebted to the comics.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Her trek to stardom was indebted to her unique singing voice that could adapt to nearly any genre.
    — Malak Saleh, CNN, 28 Dec. 2019
  • Is there anything else at play — like, does your boyfriend feel indebted to his parents?
    — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Is there anything else at play - like, does your boyfriend feel indebted to his parents?
    — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Smith knows Williams made the final call to hire him, but feels most indebted to his new boss.
    — Andrew Callahan, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The high cost of living is one reason young people are so indebted.
    — Sara Lang, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Tennessee still will be one of the least indebted states in the country.
    — Tyler Arnold, Washington Examiner, 18 June 2020
  • Most indebted motorists are too poor to keep up with monthly payments that can stretch for five years.
    — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 26 July 2019
  • Their indebted widows must now join forces to pull off their own heist and forge a future for themselves.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Their indebted widows must now join forces to pull off their own heist and forge a future for themselves.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
  • But in the indebted, over-spending world of soccer, such plans have a habit of failing.
    — David Hellier, Fortune, 6 July 2021
  • Thompson, along with the rest of the group, feels indebted to their supporters.
    — Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Artists who are indebted to Perry’s work shared their grief online.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2021
  • For this, every writer who is not the default — that is, the straight white male — is indebted to her.
    — Malavika Kannan, Teen Vogue, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Many are shuttered, indebted and struggling to pull through the lockdown.
    — Jill Ward, Bloomberg.com, 1 June 2020
  • Ruby is the one who completes the spy mission since she is indebted to William.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Thank you so much and again, myself, my teammates are forever indebted to you guys.
    — Michael Marot, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2026
  • She is indebted to Michael Townsend, park ranger at Wrangell-St.
    — Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 Mar. 2021
  • To cover the high cost of living, Chileans are greatly indebted.
    — Pascale Bonnefoy, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Frohnhoefer does not feel indebted to Musk and is in no rush to return the machine.
    — WIRED, 30 Jan. 2023
  • For decades Suriname has been too small to draw global attention and too indebted to grow.
    — Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Films like this one, heavily indebted to Irish folk horror, rarely wrap up cleanly.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 1 May 2026
  • Wall Street is convinced that these indebted companies are going to fail.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The tiny Mediterranean country of about 5 million people is one the most indebted in the world.
    — Bassam Hatoum and Bilal Hussein, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2020
  • But in the last few months, the indebted, like CoreWeave, started surfacing.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 16 Nov. 2025
  • In a tribute blog, pro Phil Hellmuth said the game is indebted to Sexton.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 7 Sep. 2020
  • In a world of heavily indebted nations the example of Iceland is one to bear in mind.
    — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The job goes sideways, leaving Kay indebted to a fixer and smuggler named Jaylen.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2024
  • Oligarchs pocketed the petrodollars of the late-aughts oil boom and left the nation somehow poorer and more indebted.
    — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
  • The result is a large cohort of angry indebted graduates.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 1 Mar. 2026

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