How to Use beget in a Sentence
beget
verb- He died without begetting an heir.
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In other words, the openness of one partner begets the openness of the other.
— Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024 -
Again and again strange men beget fear, and fear begets the cops.
— Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023 -
Their life is a life, their life is what begets other life.
— Susan Devaney, refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2024 -
This is a case of prettiness begetting more of the same.
— Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2023 -
On one hand, the spread of the disease slows, but on the other, costs to livelihoods beget other crises.
— Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 Jan. 2022 -
Thus, where there is gain, there is also pain; the latter begets the former.
— Brett Christophers, Time, 23 June 2023 -
At 18 years old, the thing first and foremost on our minds was to find a way to commit the same act that begat us.
— Mike McGraw, kansascity, 7 Sep. 2017 -
One that will shock, inspire, beget hundreds of think pieces.
— Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 25 Aug. 2017 -
One that will shock, inspire, beget hundreds of think pieces.
— Kenzie Bryant, vanityfair.com, 25 Aug. 2017 -
Rather, Keyser says, the object is for niceness to beget niceness.
— Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2023 -
Greater wealth begets greater democracy, which in turn begets greater wealth.
— Stephen D. Krasner, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020 -
And that question begets a bunch more, reminding us just how bizarre this mess is.
— Charles Curtis, For The Win, 6 July 2018 -
The hope, though, as spelled out in Goldhaber’s film, is for one act of sabotage to beget others.
— Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023 -
The drugs beget the camps, which in turn beget community decay.
— Jeff Eager, National Review, 7 Feb. 2022 -
Alpha did not beget Delta, which did not birth Omicron.
— Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 13 May 2022 -
But by playing the odds correctly, good process should beget good results over the long run.
— Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 27 May 2021 -
But crises caused by climate change beget other crises.
— Washington Post, 1 July 2021 -
In many ways, the reason for that growth is simply that success begets success.
— Dave Edwards, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2020 -
Each iteration tends to beget a better copy than the last.
— Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2020 -
And, of course, both Rocky and Alien would beget many sequels of variable quality.
— Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023 -
Sure, the film it was based on did well at the box office, grossing about $113 million in the US, but a hit film doesn’t always beget a hit game.
— WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022 -
But the rat itself was surely born here, in the Valley, begotten of that species of teenagers caroming through the malls in flocks and packs.
— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024 -
This is a pilgrimage with many pit stops—a topic that begets a lot of footnotes and tangents.
— Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 May 2024 -
Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.
— Matt Schifrin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023 -
Air-drying my hair begets frizz, which threatens to turn curly and wavy hair into a shapeless, foamy cloud.
— Veronica Cristino, Vogue, 11 July 2023 -
Cattle living a life that is free of stress, experts note, begets the world’s most beautiful beef.
— Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2024 -
Carbon emissions beget snowmelt by way of milder winters.
— Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2021 -
Neither is the job status of the man responsible for it, Chaim Bloom, if this is what his vision begets.
— Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023 -
That impulse begot the thought that perhaps the one worthy of worship was other than Kanye West.
— John Hirschauer, National Review, 4 Nov. 2019
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