begotten

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2020

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

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2020

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 • Oct. 16, 2019

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., sent a detailed list of questions to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh about his financial history this week, and those questions have now begotten further questions.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2018

“Yet not so poor,” the other replied politely, “for the women of your house do you credit, and you have begotten five healthy sons.”

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya