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UK
/ˈəʊnd/
]
[ US /ˈoʊnd/ ]
[ US /ˈoʊnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having an owner; often used in combination
state-owned railways
How To Use owned In A Sentence
- Researchers from the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Henan Province in Zhengzhou found the flutes, crafted from the hollow ulnae (wing bones) of red-crowned crane, among fragments of 30 others at the Neolithic (ca. 8000-2000 B.C.) site of Jiahu in central Henan Province. Oldest Musical Instruments Still Play a Tune
- Use of a University-owned mobile telephone and mobile telephone airtime service is intended for official University business.
- Moe is a 32 year old privately-owned chimp kept in a backyard in Los Angeles.
- Refreshed and regowned, again in dark colors unrelieved by any bright embroidery, Aene paced nervously along a subtly lit path towards the Castrea residence.
- The typical Ruby-crowned Kinglet nest is deep and is suspended from two hanging twigs.
- Before 'mancipation my mammy and daddy owned by the very same old fellar, Thomas Henry McNeil. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4
- The flat fourth story is crowned by an emphatic cornice, above which is a tall mansard roof sheltering two more stories.
- Sinosteel, another Chinese-owned metals conglomerate, has plans to develop a massive opencast iron ore mine in the Weld range, a ridge of hills 400 miles north-east of Perth. Australia leases out mineral-rich land as China's hunger for resources grows
- There are too many nice boats sitting at their moorings, owned by people with no time to sail them.
- There was Patch after was drowned out of a curagh that turned over. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays