Definition of BEGOTTEN

Examples of beget in a Sentence

He died without begetting an heir.
one change in the natural environment will beget others

Recent Examples of beget from the Web

Like any other industry, change often begets change.

— stefanie loh, The Seattle Times, "UW’s Jennifer Cohen and Seattle U’s Shaney Fink struck different paths to athletic director", 23 June 2017
Investigations like Mueller's have a way of moving from Topic A to Topic Z, from Ozarks real estate to an intern's blue dress as one question begets another and clue leads to clue.

— david von drehle, Time, "Will Robert Mueller Separate Fact From Fiction?", 22 June 2017
That office's task is to draw together government offices, nonprofit agencies, the private sector and corporate community to tackle the social problems and dearth of opportunities that beget crime and violence in the neighborhoods.

— robert higgs, cleveland.com, "Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson touts launch of anti-violence efforts in city neighborhoods", 21 June 2017
Fundraising begat more fundraising, and Ossoff collected one million contributions at the fastest clip of any candidate in history — faster even than Bernie Sanders’ and Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns.

— alex seitz-wald, NBC News, "How a Referendum on Trump Became Most Expensive House Race Ever", 19 June 2017
The formula that got us here is clear: Extremism begets extremism.

— cedric l. alexander, CNN, "The real heroes in congressional baseball attack", 16 June 2017
The consequences of treating our political foes as enemies of the republic leads to violence, and that violence will invariably beget more violence in return.

— chris stirewalt, Fox News, "Press pause", 14 June 2017
Tragedy begets tragedy in dysfunctional family drama from ancient Greece to the here and now.

— misha berson, The Seattle Times, "Review: In ‘Lydia,’ borders imagined and real", 8 June 2017
Merlin Schaefer and Johnny Rusich were fishermen whose sideline shrimp-selling business begat this nearly 50 year-old seafood retailer.

— brett anderson, NOLA.com, "Schaefer & Rusich Seafood", 31 May 2017

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