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How to use bein in a sentence

26 example sentences · adjective, adverb, verb

Bein means wealthy; well-to-do. Example: “Your fault for bein' so lackwit, ours for givin' you leave.”

Examples of bein by meaning

adjectiveWealthy; well-to-do.

  • a bein farmer

More sentences with bein

  • Your fault for bein' so lackwit, ours for givin' you leave.2018, Chris Claremont, George Lucas, Shadow Dawn. From the entry lackwit
  • A sale just means yer not bein' gouged as much, doesn't it?2009, Lee Kierig, “Ain’t No School, Quite Like, No Skool”, in Where, is Infinite Love? Public Welfare, Human Responsibility and…. From the entry ruse
  • Some big cheese bein' grought back to his native island to get planted with his ancestrals.1955, Harry Chandler Elliott, Reprieve from Paradise, page 147. From the entry ancestral
  • Honest, after one glance I felt like I was bein' held up on a fork.1917, Sewell Ford, chapter VIII, in Wilt Thou Torchy, Grosset & Dunlap. From the entry stabby
  • I didn' laugh at the moment, not bein' a triggerish chap at a joke.1915, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Nicky-Nan, Reservist, page 208. From the entry triggerish
  • Never knowed th’ comfortableness an’ luxuriosity o’ bein’ one’s own boss till this winter.1902 March 15, “Around the Village. Some Current Gossip About Local Rubes.”, in The Bayonne Herald and Greenville Register, 35th year…. From the entry luxuriosity
  • Dawkins, but my chaps here call me the Artful Dodger, on account of my bein’ an artist, you see.”2015, L.J. Oliver, The Humbug Murders, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry 'spectable
  • The peter ain’t broke, no sign of it bein’ bettied, and I the only one w’ the key.2013, Zack Wentz, “Simplicity itself”, in Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, volume 10, page 161. From the entry betty
  • “She too busy with school and bein' in her books.2012, Redd, Erick S. Gray, Nikki-Michelle, Girls from Da Hood 7. From the entry search up
  • “But ah don’t remember thur bein’ so much uphiyull.”2007, Tom Slayton, Searching for Thoreau. From the entry yur
  • I thought I was all through bein' bandaged and squozen.2002, Richard S. Prather, Shell Scott's Seven Slaughters, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry squozen
  • I'm so sick and tired of bein' admired.2000, Marshall Mathers (Eminem), “The Way I Am”, in The Marshall Mathers LP. From the entry admire
  • I ’aven’t got where I am today wivout bein’ able to spot a poofdah when I see one.1981, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Corridors of Death, London: Quartet Qrime, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry 'aven't
  • Bein' measured for a new overcoat, sir.1943, Stella Gibbons, Ticky, London: Random House, published 2012, →ISBN, page 127. From the entry stab-rag
  • "I'm a gent'man and I'm useta bein' treated as such."1913, Rupert Hughes, The Amiable Crimes of Dirk Memling, T. Langton, page 26. From the entry useta
  • I’ve just run down from Ulster County to look at the town, bein’ that the hayin’s over with.1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Poet and the Peasant”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, New…. From the entry whopper
  • Just fancy ME bein' talked over by any God-forsaken furriner!1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel. From the entry furriner
  • You got to mupload that ish.” “Well, I think I'm caught up.” “Did you hear that old man talkin' 'bout bein' on fleek?2016 June 6, Teresa Hsiao, “Garfield and Friends” (20:34 from the start), in American Dad!, season 13, episode 19, Wanda Sykes (actor). From the entry mupload
  • “Mornin’, ladies!” The door chimes were busy for a Tuesday. ¶ “Mornin’ back at ya’ – bein’ a bit presumptuous, aren’t you?1996, Jennifer Bosveld, Maggie Lynn and her Perpetual State Fulfillment in Johnstown Ohio, page 49. From the entry back at ya
  • You know who I mean – them saditty splibs, them e-lites that's so hung up on bein white that they cant even pronounce stuff right.1970, Al Young, “Snakes”, in Ishmael Reed, editor, 19 Necromancers from Now, page 355. From the entry saditty
  • Why, dat guy ain’t got de firs’ idee about bein’ square wit’ a pal or librul wit’ an ol’ friend in de same line.1916, Jack Lait, “The Canada Kid” (chapter 9), in Beef, Iron and Wine, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, pages 178–179. From the entry double X
  • 'I mean what makes you think he's a poofdah, you narg?' 'I 'aven't got where I am today wivout bein' able to spot a poofdah when I see one.2011, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Corridors of Death: A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery, page 116. From the entry narg
  • If you're a rich man and your woman pays attention to you only when she wants your credit card, you're bein' played by a sugar baby!2005, Aaron Peckham, Urban dictionary: fularious street slang defined, page 300. From the entry sugar baby
  • It’s all techno an’ awlturnative horsetwaddle, an’ there jest ain’t no way true Wrangler-wearin’ line-dancin’ folks would ever be caught dead bein’ entertained by sumthin’ like that.1994 December 29, Roy Fisher, “. . End Notes: Hoedown countdown”, in See Magazine, number 60, volume 4, #24, page 26. From the entry horsetwaddle
  • 'e gived 'em up, an' repented somethin' horrid — there still bein' the buns to come — but Miss Soapy she gave 'im what- for-proper, she did!1912, Edward Burke, Bachelor's Buttons: The Candid Confessions of a Shy Bachelor, page 133. From the entry give someone what for

Meaning of bein

  1. adjective Wealthy; well-to-do.
  2. adjective Well provided; comfortable; cosy.
  3. adverb Comfortably.

Full definition of bein

Questions about bein in a sentence

How do you use bein in a sentence?
Bein is used as an adjective, adverb and verb. For example: “Your fault for bein' so lackwit, ours for givin' you leave.”
What is a short sentence with bein?
“a bein farmer”
What does bein mean?
Bein means wealthy; well-to-do.

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