Example Sentences

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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

It is heartbreaking, and it drove home not only the pain in the loss of the children but also the generations they would have begotten.

From Washington Post • May 19, 2016

Max Eastman, the pundit and critic, wrote in Bull in the Afternoon that Hemingway seemed to have "begotten . . . a literary style . . . of wearing false hair on the chest."

From Time Magazine Archive

I would be very unhappy if I believed that I could have begotten valuable progeny with another woman.

From Time Magazine Archive

“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