DUE in a Sentence

Learn DUE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

299 example sentences for DUE, such as:

1. Honour to whom honour is due.
2. Give credit where credit is due.
3. It must be due to some fault in ourselves.
4. She never ceased to think of what was due to you.
5. Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended.

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 Meanings and Examples of DUE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
due
 a.  owed and payable immediately or on demand
 a.  proper and appropriate; fitting
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  If I fail I shall, of course, incur all the blame due to this omission; but that I am prepared for.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  It must be due to some fault in ourselves.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
3  Boxer's twelfth birthday was due in the late summer of the following year.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
4  Too many farmers had assumed, without due enquiry, that on such a farm a spirit of licence and indiscipline would prevail.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
5  On Thursday it's the natives of Peru require protection and correction; we give 'em what's due.'
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
6  He knew it to be his due, but his due was acceptable.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
7  He is not coming down to the country house for a week or so, being due somewhere else.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
8  Restore to thy master that which is his due, and enrich thyself with the remainder.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  First let us speak of thy master; the knight's matters must go before the squire's, according to the due order of chivalry.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  I claim," said Athelstane, "an honourable imprisonment, with due care of my board and of my couch, as becomes my rank, and as is due to one who is in treaty for ransom.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
11  They whispered to each other, and communicated all the feats which Satan had performed during that busy and unhappy period, not failing, of course, to give the devil rather more than his due.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
12  Let any woman start a sex conversation with me, and it's natural for me to go to bed with her to finish it, all in due season.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  A great many things were due from poor Mr. Norris, as clergyman of the parish, that cannot be expected from me.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  Mr. Rushworth was at the door to receive his fair lady; and the whole party were welcomed by him with due attention.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  She never ceased to think of what was due to you.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
16  Give credit where credit is due.
17  Honour to whom honour is due.
18  Our thanks are due to Bob Lawrence whose unremitting labours have ensured the success of the whole scheme.
19  The event has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control.
20  Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended.
21  The city centre suffered some disruption due to a bomb scare.
22  Her disappointing exam results are entirely due to her inattention in class.
23  The client has drawn up a detailed planning application that is due to be submitted by the end of this month.
24  The firm's success is largely due to Brannon's commercial acumen.
25  His position as leader will be under threat at a party congress due next month.
26  My best wishes for your success in the examination and look forward to hearing in due course that you have passed.
27  The rise in crime is mainly due to social and economic factors.
28  Where unemployment and crime are high, it can be assumed that the latter is due to the former.
29  The teams are due to report back to the Prime Minister early next year.
30  To give Linda her due, she had tried to encourage John in his school work.