How to Use beget in a Sentence

beget

verb

• He died without begetting an heir.
• Again and again strange men beget fear, and fear begets the cops.
  — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• Their life is a life, their life is what begets other life.
  — Susan Devaney, refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2024
• This is a case of prettiness begetting more of the same.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2023
• On one hand, the spread of the disease slows, but on the other, costs to livelihoods beget other crises.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 Jan. 2022
• Thus, where there is gain, there is also pain; the latter begets the former.
  — Brett Christophers, Time, 23 June 2023
• In other words, the openness of one partner begets the openness of the other.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
• At 18 years old, the thing first and foremost on our minds was to find a way to commit the same act that begat us.
  — Mike McGraw, kansascity, 7 Sep. 2017
• One that will shock, inspire, beget hundreds of think pieces.
  — Kenzie Bryant, vanityfair.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• One that will shock, inspire, beget hundreds of think pieces.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 25 Aug. 2017
• Rather, Keyser says, the object is for niceness to beget niceness.
  — Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2023
• Greater wealth begets greater democracy, which in turn begets greater wealth.
  — Stephen D. Krasner, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020
• And that question begets a bunch more, reminding us just how bizarre this mess is.
  — Charles Curtis, For The Win, 6 July 2018
• The hope, though, as spelled out in Goldhaber’s film, is for one act of sabotage to beget others.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
• The drugs beget the camps, which in turn beget community decay.
  — Jeff Eager, National Review, 7 Feb. 2022
• Alpha did not beget Delta, which did not birth Omicron.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 13 May 2022
• But by playing the odds correctly, good process should beget good results over the long run.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• But crises caused by climate change beget other crises.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2021
• In many ways, the reason for that growth is simply that success begets success.
  — Dave Edwards, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2020
• Each iteration tends to beget a better copy than the last.
  — Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2020
• And, of course, both Rocky and Alien would beget many sequels of variable quality.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• Sure, the film it was based on did well at the box office, grossing about $113 million in the US, but a hit film doesn’t always beget a hit game.
  — WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
• But the rat itself was surely born here, in the Valley, begotten of that species of teenagers caroming through the malls in flocks and packs.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• This is a pilgrimage with many pit stops—a topic that begets a lot of footnotes and tangents.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 May 2024
• Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.
  — Matt Schifrin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Air-drying my hair begets frizz, which threatens to turn curly and wavy hair into a shapeless, foamy cloud.
  — Veronica Cristino, Vogue, 11 July 2023
• So Shōgun hopefully begets more projects, as well as Pachinko has.
  — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2024
• Cattle living a life that is free of stress, experts note, begets the world’s most beautiful beef.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2024
• Carbon emissions beget snowmelt by way of milder winters.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2021
• But here’s another example of how lies beget lies, leading to some touchy situations.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024