OWNER in a Sentence

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Its owner, Mr. Pilkington, was an easy-going gentleman farmer who spent most of his time in fishing or hunting according to the season.

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 Meanings and Examples of OWNER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
owner
 n.  someone who owns a business or something
Classic Sentence: (131 in 9 pages)
1  So sinister was the impression which that face had produced upon me that I found it difficult to feel anything but gratitude for him who had removed its owner from the world.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2  I was to bring a certain sum a week to the owner, and whatever was over that I might keep for myself.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
3  Its owner, Mr. Pilkington, was an easy-going gentleman farmer who spent most of his time in fishing or hunting according to the season.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
4  Its owner was a Mr. Frederick, a tough, shrewd man, perpetually involved in lawsuits and with a name for driving hard bargains.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
5  A huge black banner, which floated from the top of the tower, announced that the obsequies of the late owner were still in the act of being solemnized.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
6  And the cocked hat and cane having been, by this time, adjusted to their owner's satisfaction, Mr. Bumble and Noah Claypole betook themselves with all speed to the undertaker's shop.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  I consider, sir, that you have obtained possession of that book, under very suspicious and disreputable circumstances; and you may think yourself very fortunate that the owner of the property declines to prosecute.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  They remanded him till to-day, for they thought they knew the owner.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
9  Aunt and niece then descended from the van, Mrs. Yeobright saying to its owner, "I quite recognize you now."
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
10  All smiled upon Wildeve, and upon his tables and chairs likewise, from a general sense of friendliness towards the articles as well as towards their owner.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
11  And the discovery that she was the owner of a disposition so purely that of the dog in the manger had something in it which at first made her ashamed.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 11 The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
12  The owner, who was leaning against the settle's outer end, was Clement Yeobright, or Clym, as he was called here; she knew it could be nobody else.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
13  He won steadily, till he was the owner of fourteen more of the gold pieces.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
14  For the very simple reason that I see the dog himself on our very door-step, and there is the ring of its owner.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
15  At others he will with his own hands tear down some other man's gate and declare that a path has existed there from time immemorial, defying the owner to prosecute him for trespass.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
Example Sentence: (114 in 8 pages)
16  The plantation owner has possessed himself of a vast piece of land.
17  Car for sale: one careful owner, low mileage.
18  After his death the house reverted to its original owner.
19  The owner has offered a reward for the recovery of the stolen goods.
20  The stolen document was soon restored to the owner.
21  The dog kited down the street towards its owner.
22  I'm part owner of the restaurant.
23  The stolen car was returned to its rightful owner.
24  I met the owner of the local hotel.
25  He managed the supermarket when the owner was away.
26  The house shows the owner.
27  The previous owner of the house had built an extension on the back.
28  The owner of a car is no longer forced to rely on public transport.
29  The painting was restored to its rightful owner.
30  Seth was the proud owner of a new sports car.