When you owe the bank a million dollars, you're in trouble.
"He said I owed him three hundred dollars for board and clothes."
By the way, you owe me five dollars for the bet.
I owed him fifty dollars, and wanted to pay it.
And I now owe your husband's girlfriend eight hundred dollars.
"Do you think I'd murder a man who owed me three thousand dollars?"
When you owe the bank a trillion dollars, the bank's in trouble.
They spent $500,000,000 and went out of business owing almost a billion dollars, with 51,000 subscribers.
Will you pledge to spend every dollar owed on schools?
"I owe him two dollars and a half for the fiddle."