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How to use genesis in a sentence

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Genesis means the origin, start, or point at which something comes into being. Example: “Some point to the creation of Magna Carta as the genesis of English common law.”

Examples of genesis by meaning

nounThe origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.

  • Some point to the creation of Magna Carta as the genesis of English common law.
  • The genesis of the Chinese bronze mirror can be traced far back into the Chou dynasty.1980, Helmut Brinker, Eberhard Fischer, Treasures from the Rietberg Museum, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91

More sentences with genesis

  • Genesis is the first book of the Bible.From the entry book
  • Similarly, in microgensis, stages unfold as somewhat arbitrarily isolable epochs in a continuous flow of percept genesis.2000, Talis Bachmann, Microgenetic Approach to the Conscious Mind, page 200. From the entry microgenesis
  • This was Nabokov’s postlude to Lolita, where he relates the book’s genesis.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 313. From the entry postlude
  • Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12. From the entry incest
  • This is indeed the genesis of the Big Bang theory of science.1979, Bhavan’s Journal, XXV, issues 13-26, 269/1. From the entry polarisation
  • Read, a base for the metamorphist conception of the genesis of granites.1953, Report of the Session - Volume 19, page 5554. From the entry metamorphist
  • Ectogenesis is a genesis “outside” the maternal body.2012, Irina Aristarkhova, Hospitality of the Matrix, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 88. From the entry ectogenesis
  • This place known as Bdote is our place of genesis.2012, Gwen Westerman, Bruce White, Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota, page vii. From the entry bdóte
  • This article was the genesis of a small scandal in its day, a mere scandalette of little consequence.1964, Francisco Ayala, Death as a Way of Life, page 84. From the entry scandalette
  • Other times its horns proceed, slow yellow yearnings to live, they go eclipsed, delousing insectual nightmares dead to thunder, herald of genesis.2016 spring, Cesar Vallejo, translated by Alvaro Cardona-Hine, “Trilce”, in Malpaís Review, volume 6, number 4, Placitas, N.M., →ISSN…. From the entry insectual
  • The genesis of this distinctive ethnic identity is a complex result of historical processes extending to Inca and Spanish colonization of the Andean region.2015, David Syring, With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World. From the entry Saraguro
  • The genesis of the Pan-African movement can be traced back to the different political and religious movements called Ethiopianism or the Ethiopian movements.2005, Paulos Milkias, Getachew Metaferia, The Battle of Adwa: Reflections on Ethiopia's Historic Victory Against European Colonialism…. From the entry Ethiopianism
  • It is our cultural expression, a true artistic product that finds its genesis in the everynight life of el barrio, the South Bronx, Filadelfia.1997, Augusto C. Puleo, “Una verdadera crónica del Norte: Una noche con la India”, in Celeste Fraser Delgado, transl., edited by Celeste…. From the entry everynight
  • You have to already be afflicted with the syndrome of acrotomophilia (which has its genesis in childhood) in order to be turned-on by amputation stumps.1985, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice, Effect of pornography on women and…. From the entry acrotomophilia
  • Nostromo's fate demonstrates that even possession of what has been figuratively misendowed with essential reality does not mitigate that desire responsible for the genesis of the fetishistic process itself.1982, David Simpson, Fetishism and Imagination: Dickens, Melville, Conrad, page 96. From the entry misendow
  • Genesis, the first book of the Holy Bible, relates the earliest known instance of cattle being trailed to better grass lands (unless Noah's trip with the ark is one).1956, John O. Bye, Back Trailing in the Heart of the Short-grass Country, page 6. From the entry trail
  • Just as a nucleus has always for its genesis a division of a mother-nucleus, so have the plastosomes for their origin a division of a mother-plastosome.1916, Journal of Morphology, page 561. From the entry plastosome
  • Many believe the genesis of saint Lucy can be found in the mythology of two roman deities: Lucina, goddess of birth and light, who merged with the mother goddess Juno.2008, Laurie Sue Brockway, chapter IL, in The Goddess Pages: A Divine Guide to Finding Love and Happiness, page 184. From the entry Lucina

Meaning of genesis

  1. noun The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.

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Questions about genesis in a sentence

How do you use genesis in a sentence?
Genesis is used as a noun. For example: “Some point to the creation of Magna Carta as the genesis of English common law.”
What is a short sentence with genesis?
“Ectogenesis is a genesis “outside” the maternal body.”
What does genesis mean?
Genesis means the origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.

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