Sentences with beholden
be·hold·en
B b - He was made beholden to the Mafia.
- From an early age, I had decided I wanted to be beholden to no one.
- But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).
- A man beholden to no one.