beholden

How To Use beholden In A Sentence

• Tall mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the good.
• As a minister and educator to the hill farmers of north Alabama, Pickens was unbeholden to Bourbon patronage, and he was soon to wield his own printing press.
• It seemed that every trades-man in the county, from the black-smith to the chandler, came out of the wood-work to proclaim that he was beholden to them.
• It enables people to grow their own food and develop local economies not beholden to either home-grown tyrants or multinational corporations.
• Does he need an overmighty sidekick personally beholden to him as well? Times, Sunday Times
• We are not beholden therefore to any past political history or any particular business gimmick. Thinking the Unthinkable
• But the next spring he dights his ship for Denmark, and there he was for another winter, and was well beholden withal, though tidings be not told thereof.
• TAll mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the good.
• Your editorial today is a nicely written spray, which makes good use of your unbeholden position - a very timely contrast to The Age!
• Even the seemingly goodhearted politicians are irrevocably beholden to their big buck backers.