own

How to use own in a sentence

“Follows-his-own-fancy,” she repeated, as one repeats a strange phrase, the meaning of which is obscure.

UNVEILING A PARALLELALICE ILGENFRITZ JONES AND ELLA MARCHANT

Opposite is a little, hold-your-own school-mistressy young person in pince-nez.

No wonder her father had hidden that photograph, so secretly behind her own-ashamed of having kept it!

"It's g-g-g-gone d-d-d-own the bab-b-b-back of my n-n-n-neck," sputtered Ding-dong Bell protestingly.

Couldn't a-be'n 'at she'd a-wundered off her-own-se'f; and it couldn't a-be'n 'at Steve'd take her, 'thout a-lettin' us know it.

Got a old maid with her to keep her company—a chapper-own, they say—which ain't in no ways illuminatin' my think-tank none.

THE TRAIL HORDECHARLES ALDEN SELTZER

The little song he was singing was his own,-one he had composed, both air and words; for the child was a genius.

DE LA SALLE FIFTH READERBROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS

Own-y-to-ny papas stop hurwying when their little boys ask weal hard, persisted Tod.

Each topped a ridge, or a low hummock, with an assumption of defiance of the cock-on-its-own-dunghill type.

Laziness is an own-brother to Over-confidence, and both are your inveterate enemies, though they pretend to be soothing friends.

THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKINGDALE CARNAGEY (AKA DALE CARNEGIE) AND J. BERG ESENWEIN

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985