begats

Example Sentences

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Think about how the whole thing is run by statistically the best manager in baseball history — Dave Roberts — and the word becomes a reality that begats a question.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

Perhaps, too, Jackie Robinson served as an example for a series of begats.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2019

There is no more lineage-obsessed sport than horse racing, and serious aficionados know their begats better than Bible scholars.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016

It's written in simple, sedate language that steers clear of both clanging anachronisms and those King Jamesian ye's and unto's and begats.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Well, thank you, Turner Ernest Buckminster. Now, if you’re done with your begats, I’ll go on ahead and shake your hand. But only if you’re done with the begats.”

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt