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'own' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'own' with 20 example sentences.


own adjective

: belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive

own verb

: have ownership or possession of


  • Do you want to open up your own restaurant?
  • I have a friend who cuts his own hair.
  • I think that you just answered your own question.
  • My older brother bought his own house last month.
  • Why don't you mind your own business?
  • I'm old enough to make my own decisions.
  • He opened his own restaurant.
  • I want to sleep in my own bed tonight.
  • I don't understand my own feelings.
  • She answered her own question.
  • Follow your own path and let people talk.
  • He killed his own father.
  • You won't be on your own.
  • I saw it with my own eyes.
  • He is afraid of his own shadow.
  • I do things in my own way.
  • Stand on your own two feet.
  • Everyone has their own opinion.
  • They have plenty of their own problems.
  • Did you come up with that on your own?
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