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How to use beget in a sentence

20 example sentences · verb

Beget means to produce or bring forth (a child); to be a parent of; to father or sire. Example: “The King intends to beget a child within the next five years.”

Examples of beget by meaning

verbTo produce or bring forth (a child); to be a parent of; to father or sire.

  • The King intends to beget a child within the next five years.
  • This ogress too was begotten of the blood of Cain, whose brood had been doomed forever to the icy floods and freezing waters of the earth.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 33
  • I believe good people beget good people.2003, William H. Frist, Shirley Wilson, Good People Beget Good People: A Genealogy of the Frist Family, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page...

verbTo cause; to produce; to bring forth.

  • Wealth begets wealth; poverty begets poverty.
  • In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges.2012 May 5, Henry Alford, “Future TED Talks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 May 2012
  • The sport begat American football, Gaelic football, Australian rules football and Association football (aka soccer).2012 February 1, Kathy Gilbert, “Pitching In”, in Chatter Chattanooga, retrieved 29 Sep 2012

More sentences with beget

  • This man knows horselore and loves the horse with that personal affection which begets understanding.2010, William A. Owens, Three Friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry horselore
  • The premature passing of Bob Collins and the sadness it begets leave us in wonder.2000, Wally Phillips, “Foreword”, in Vicki Quade, I Remember Bob Collins, Champaign, Ill.: Bannon Multimedia Group, →ISBN, page vi. From the entry inexplicable
  • The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.1986, Bernard Oldsey, Joseph Browne, editors, Critical Essays on George Orwell, G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 74. From the entry Oceanian
  • Being itself inferior and consorting with an inferior faculty it begets inferior offspring.1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume…. From the entry consort
  • And such rhetoric—we know as surely as we know that night follows day—eventually begets action, with inevitably tragic results.2016, David Neiwert, Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, →ISBN. From the entry eliminationism
  • The lot of hazardise, the which, with fear For dam and unmanned feebleness for sire, A cognate pair, begets its parentage.1908, John Clark, Hannibal: A Drama in Five Acts, page 34. From the entry hazardise
  • In the words of a recent scientific review of the effects accomplished by the ‘ecological engineering’ of traditional fire practitioners, ‘pyrodiversity begets biodiversity’.2020, Jeremy Walker, More Heat Then Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy and Economics, page 60. From the entry pyroculture
  • This varisome globe that swirls on gimbal pins of prayers, begets a sort of musical ache not ministered to by the mumbles of the spheres.2015, Andrew Glaze, Overheard in a Drugstore. From the entry varisome
  • That's because the debate pits textbook economics — which argues that bailouts beget bad behavior begets more bailouts — against practical politics.2009, CQ Weekly, volume 67, numbers 31-36, page 2190. From the entry expedient
  • With the frugality that hard graft begets, his mate limited both his and her own tobacco, so he must not smoke all afternoon.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry frugality
  • Should we worry about a world of stodgy multicentenarians who will resist the innovations of ninety-something upstarts and perhaps ban the begetting of pesky children altogether?2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, →ISBN. From the entry multicentenarian
  • He wears a turban, he puts on his sandal mark every morning, he bathes and eats and marries and dies orthodoxly; he probably begets children orthodoxly.1980, Agehananda Bharati, The Ochre Robe. From the entry orthodoxly
  • "Who plants a seed begets a bud, -- Extract of that same root; -- Why marvel at the hectic blood -- That flushes this wild fruit?"1925, Countee Cullen, Fruit of the Flower. From the entry flush
  • Kissing the tendril fingers - at first because Mina, its mother, did not - but later with a rapture begot by its breath on her breast.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry tendril

Meaning of beget

  1. verb To produce or bring forth (a child); to be a parent of; to father or sire.
  2. verb To cause; to produce; to bring forth.
  3. verb To get or obtain.

Full definition of beget

Questions about beget in a sentence

How do you use beget in a sentence?
Beget is used as a verb. For example: “The King intends to beget a child within the next five years.”
What is a short sentence with beget?
“Wealth begets wealth; poverty begets poverty.”
What does beget mean?
Beget means to produce or bring forth (a child); to be a parent of; to father or sire.

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