Sentence examples for begot from high-quality English sources.

• Putnam, because it was Fox that begot Mr.

• Wells begot the concept of time travel as well as pioneered the nascent genre of science fiction.

• From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour.

• Her gift of palmistry and other sorts of fortune-telling begot for her at last a witch’s name and fame.

• One home greenhouse eventually begot a farm, and many more.

• As Arnold Corns, Major Tom, Aladdin Sane, and the White Duke, David Bowie has begot more alter egos than nearly anyone else in the music scene.

• Revered by professionals as the Holy Grail of television comedy, Cheers begot the series arc that had previously been underutilized by sitcom writers.

• He holds those five presidents responsible, variously, for corruption, the concentration of wealth, electoral fraud and a failed drug war that begot yet more violence.

Use begot in a sentence.

• If wearing the suits indoors for any length of time begot a clamminess reminiscent of boil-in-bag vegetables (or, for younger readers, sous vide), wearing them outdoors was largely delightful.

• Immigrants poured in to work in CF&I’s coal mines and the steel mill in Pueblo, forging the rails that wiped out the buffalo, violently displaced tribal societies and begot the modern American West.

• shalt thou vanish away into the common substance of Him, who first begot thee, or rather thou shalt be resumed again into that original rational substance, out of which all others have issued, and are propagated.

• One idea only still throbbed life-like within me—a remembrance of God: it begot an unuttered prayer: these words went wandering up and down in my rayless mind, as something that should be whispered, but no energy was found to express them—

• Sadly, many offices have been designed with an outdated, top-down working culture in mind – one which begot cubicles and corner offices, and where teamwork was seen as a relay race: each employee did his or her bit in isolation before passing the baton to another team member.

• Every part of mine then will by mutation be disposed into a certain part of the whole world, and that in time into another part; and so in infinitum; by which kind of mutation, I also became what I am, and so did they that begot me, and they before them, and so upwards in infinitum.

• “Then to the yard with the whole of them,” said the curate; “for to have the burning of Queen Pintiquiniestra, and the shepherd Darinel and his eclogues, and the bedevilled and involved discourses of his author, I would burn with them the father who begot me if he were going about in the guise of a knight-errant.”

• That mindset, the New Brandeisites argue, is bad enough in itself; coupled with the fact that digital giants charge no prices at all for their products – think Facebook or Google – or that they keep prices deliberately low to consolidate their power – think Amazon – it is what has allowed the orgy of mergers and acquisitions that begot the current oligopolistic internet we are stuck with.

begot sentence examples

• He Who Himself begot middler the Holy Ghost and Himself sent Himself, Agenbuyer, between Himself and others, Who, put upon by His fiends, stripped and whipped, was nailed like bat to barndoor, starved on crosstree, Who let Him bury, stood up, harrowed hell, fared into heaven and there these nineteen hundred years sitteth on the right hand of His Own Self but yet shall come in the latter day to doom the quick and dead when all the quick shall be dead already.