beholden

Example Sentences

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“And they’re all of a similar class,” Coco says, “all beholden to this family that has all the money. They’re trying to survive that.”

From Los Angeles Times

What would you do if you knew that somebody in a position of power, like the president, was perhaps beholden to somebody who you knew to be inherently evil?

From Los Angeles Times

Rebekah, a corporate striver with a mercenary streak, is beholden to her first-born boy.

From Los Angeles Times

Bahr added that, because they are “beholden to no one,” they do not fear retaliation.

From Salon

But in “Our Little Secret,” Lohan thankfully isn’t beholden to any of the kitsch that plagued her prior Netflix movies.

From Salon