BEGET in a Sentence

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11 example sentences for BEGET, such as:

1. The plot was only there to beget emotion.
2. A lie begets a lie till they come to generation.
3. A lie begets a lie till they come to generations.
4. Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
5. Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.

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 Meanings and Examples of BEGET
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beget
 v.  produce; give rise to
Classic Sentence:
1  As for the sons and the daughters they beget, why, those sons and daughters must take care of themselves; at least, with only the maternal help.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
2  Ye did beget this luckless child, and have abandoned him, ye creative libertines.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
3  The plot was only there to beget emotion.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
4  I like you because I have those same qualities in me and like begets liking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  It is not who begets us, that matters, but where fate places us.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
6  Such views of life were to some extent the natural begettings of her situation upon her nature.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
Example Sentence:
1  One good turn may deserve another; it does not necessarily beget another.
2  Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
3  Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
4  A lie begets a lie till they come to generation.
5  A lie begets a lie till they come to generations.