begotten

Example Sentences

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Oedipus, having begat where he was begotten, took responsibility and blinded himself.

From Los Angeles Times

“The creative inspiration people got from cheese boards has begotten creative inspiration for a lot of things,” she says.

From Washington Post

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

Recent decades have seen the museum organised by way of a stately procession, in which art movements and -isms were shown to have begotten other movements and -isms.

From The Guardian

The filmmaker’s begotten a Latin American brainchild sharing chromosomes with “Heart of Darkness” and “Lord of the Flies” but with thunderous stylistic panache setting apart its 21st century frenzy.

From Los Angeles Times