Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for beget. Search instead for begehst.
Definitions

beget

[bih-get] / bɪˈgɛt /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

“Boycotts can beget other boycotts, so there could be global risk to sales of U.S. business jets depending on how sentiment and behaviors change,” Capital Alpha said.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

In general, strong stock markets beget IPO booms, and cycles can be long-lasting.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

These downturns would create cracks in anyone’s self-esteem, but for people with NPD, the newly created cognitive dissonance between their self-image and the setback can beget a personality crisis.

From Slate Jul. 23, 2025

“If I can get my ideas to severed workers all across the world, it might beget a revolution.”

From Salon Feb. 15, 2025

I wished I too had some kind of scar that would beget Baba’s sympathy.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Society’s hatred, the novel suggests, begets a destructive self-hatred.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

“More often than not, strength begets strength,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch Apr. 15, 2026

Magalon and Santiago link lower budgets to more artistic freedom, which begets better films.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 17, 2026

In markets, strength often begets more strength, or, as technicians like to say, trends once in motion tend to remain that way more likely than they are to reverse.

From Barron's Jan. 13, 2026

He said this: “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

Like Leo, it begat a procession of memes solely based on our first glimpse of Jude Law as Pope Pius XIII, the fictional first U.S.-born pontiff, played by a British actor.

From Salon May 10, 2025

Yet that begat one of the greatest turnarounds in league history, which started with the hiring of Will Kuntz as senior vice-president of player personnel.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 7, 2024

Indian musicians began adapting their own classical music for steel guitar, and in Africa, the quest to replicate the glissando effect begat a local technique dubbed “Hauyani” after the word “Hawaiian.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 1, 2024

But that broken leg also begat the greatest comeback in NFL history and led to one of the gifts Smith gave Washington football fans — a rare Thanksgiving Day win over the Dallas Cowboys.

From Washington Times Nov. 22, 2023

But who begat you is a question with an answer only someone else can tell you.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Project Plowshares, the program that begot this test, bears more than a passing resemblance to today’s efforts to apply ever more powerful artificial-intelligence models to every area of human endeavor.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

Meet the next Asian film fighting style that will clobber Hollywood slap-happy just as Hong Kong wire-fu spawned “The Matrix” and Indonesia’s “The Raid” begot “John Wick.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

Likewise, expectations are heavy on Dunn, 26, after a breakout 14-goal and team-high 50-assist season begot a four-year, $29.4 million extension.

From Seattle Times Oct. 9, 2023

Macfadyen delivers a different version of a doofy husband in this terrific three-part British docudrama mini-series about the creation of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” and the cheating scandal it begot.

From New York Times May 29, 2023

Here he married, built a great manor house, fathered Antiphates and Mantios, commanders both, of whom Antiphates begot Oikleies and Oikleies the firebrand Amphiaraos.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

How great if this type of four-quadrant filmmaking didn’t have to cosplay as a begotten relic — if it could take courage from these dinosaurs and thrive in our modern times.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Its shrinking budget has begotten a shrinking member base, leading to an even smaller budget.

From Salon Jan. 15, 2024

Investment has begotten investment and driven philanthropic interest, with Gray’s organization poised to help build a $54 million, 219-unit affordable-housing complex.

From New York Times Nov. 18, 2021

He trusted the promise of John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

From Washington Post Nov. 27, 2019

But Roy had been begotten in the marriage bed, the bed that Paul described as holy, and it was to him the Kingdom had been promised.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

“These dynamics are essentially similar to a bank run: vulnerability begetting more vulnerability,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

That trend could itself be causing a vicious cycle of fewer children begetting fewer children, said Takuya Hoshino, senior economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute.

From Reuters Aug. 30, 2023

Some executives argue that zeal over returning to the office can build on itself, with occupants begetting more occupants.

From New York Times Aug. 1, 2022

The son of a goddess and a prince, he carried the ancestral burden of begetting a lineage of rulers in a foreign land.

From Salon Feb. 6, 2022

In so many ways, his family’s life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri




Vocabulary lists containing beget


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training