How to Use owner in a Sentence

owner

noun
  • The best owners in the league know that, too.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Cat owners, this one's for you.
    — Kasey Caminiti, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Plus, the smell of their owners draws them in.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • A lot of business owners are scared of it.
    — Devan Dalla, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • His former owner will not own up to the truth.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The house has seen only one live-in owner.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The owners even keep a bowl of cookies by the counter to take.
    — Blake Gillespie, SPIN, 11 June 2024
  • Henkel sees his role as a steward, not an owner of the land.
    — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Some of the dogs killed were owned by the kennel's owners.
    — Christopher Derose, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • And then the owners just kind of get up and walk away and wander.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2025
  • There’s an owner whose name’s in there hundreds of times.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The [team] owners in the US are the best in the world.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The owners of Briny could not be reached for comment.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The owners say the cost to keep it open is becoming too much.
    — Michael Abeyta, CBS News, 27 June 2026
  • The owner of one of the apartments was injured in the shelling.
    — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Maybe this will be the year when the owner stops being annoyed.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Many small business owners are doing this and good for them.
    — Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Several owners have found that the set makes a good bath toy, too.
    — Phoebe Sklansky, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
  • That means the vehicles were worth less than the owner owed on a car loan.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • That’s power in the hands of the small business owner.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • One of the first food trucks in the Des Moines metro now has new owners.
    — Susan Stapleton, Des Moines Register, 9 Jan. 2026
  • For owners, life at Pendry comes with all the perks of five-star living.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Or is the plan to have Brady descend from the owners’ box to save the day?
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
  • This leaves business owners and consumers in a vise.
    — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The Mews Tavern will soon have new owners.
    — Kathleen Hill, The Providence Journal, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The older the roof, the more the owner will have to provide out of pocket.
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
  • The early days can be filled with anxiety for both the pet and the owner.
    — Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Many pet owners are not abandoning the chance to have a little bit of fun.
    — Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Outcome-owners find their own way forward.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The owner of the car, a man, admitted to driving at the time of the crash.
    — Chloe Rosen, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026

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