Example Sentences

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Now the codes are begetting the soft censorship of trigger warnings to swaddle students in a “safe,” “supportive,” “unthreatening” environment, intellectual comfort for the intellectually dormant.

From Washington Post

Let the begetting of children and the supervision of those who are begetting them continue ten years and no longer, during the time when marriage is fruitful.

From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin

Like as Rā reappears every morning, and Tum532 sets in the horizon, men are begetting, and women are conceiving.

From Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings by Wilson, Epiphanius

But ye, when ye think on future fame, fancy it an immortality that ye are begetting for yourselves.

From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)