How to Use beget in a Sentence

beget

verb

• He died without begetting an heir.
• Fame begets fame, skill or not.
  — Medhat Zaki, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• Still, all that change begets more change.
  — Jackie Charniga, Freep.com, 23 Oct. 2025
• And rhetoric, it could be said, begets more rhetoric.
  — Robin Wright, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
• Again and again strange men beget fear, and fear begets the cops.
  — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• Sometimes the drops beget more drops.
  — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2026
• The first three notes of Beethoven’s Fifth beget the fourth.
  — James Somers, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
• One that will shock, inspire, beget hundreds of think pieces.
  — Kenzie Bryant, vanityfair.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• Greater wealth begets greater democracy, which in turn begets greater wealth.
  — Stephen D. Krasner, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020
• Teething begets teeth, sleeplessness begets sleep.
  — Ellyn Gaydos august 11, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
• And that question begets a bunch more, reminding us just how bizarre this mess is.
  — Charles Curtis, For The Win, 6 July 2018
• Thus, where there is gain, there is also pain; the latter begets the former.
  — Brett Christophers, Time, 23 June 2023
• In other words, one good health habit tends to beget another, and the same goes for bad health habits.
  — Melissa Dahl, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2025
• In many ways, the reason for that growth is simply that success begets success.
  — Dave Edwards, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2020
• The drugs beget the camps, which in turn beget community decay.
  — Jeff Eager, National Review, 7 Feb. 2022
• Rather, Keyser says, the object is for niceness to beget niceness.
  — Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2023
• But by playing the odds correctly, good process should beget good results over the long run.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• Dreary weather begets dreary outfits—grays and blacks to the front.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 28 Jan. 2025
• But one of the hardest yet most common lessons investors learn is that strength often begets more strength.
  — Jay Woods, CNBC, 4 June 2026
• 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
• 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
• In other words, the openness of one partner begets the openness of the other.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Sep. 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
• The leadership change could beget more departures, as structural changes like this tend to do.
  — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Sam Hoiberg sat at the far end of the Nebraska bench and watched one dismal loss beget the next.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026
• It was never supposed to be a character study about how trauma begets trauma.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
• Yes, athletics beget injuries, no matter the age or level.
  — Grace Perry, Outside, 1 Jan. 2026
• War begetting still more war, like some deranged biblical prophecy.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2026