How to Use being in a Sentence
being
noun- I knew it was true in the core of my being.
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That was a part of her being, is to hold that weight.
—Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
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Every fiber of my being is in the pieces.
—Max Berlinger, Vogue, 11 June 2026
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Three of the giant beings went north and east.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
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My entire being is with her now.
—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
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Linda’s words strummed the truth of my being.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
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These are tools, not sentient beings.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2025
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Kraft's six might be out of reach, so the focus for the time being is on four.
—CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
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To know when a country came into being, where does one look?
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
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For the time being, any form of consensus is still a long way off.
—Govert Schilling, Scientific American, 27 June 2026
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There are things every living being has to do.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
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Don’t take away things that are essential to my being.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
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There’s also a bunch of strange cosmic beings to fight off too.
—Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Point being, the number of these contracts went way up in just a few months.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 July 2026
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Our past doesn’t hang over us, it’s woven into our very being.
—Allison Noelle Conner, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
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That’s enough to silence any critics (for the time being).
—The Athletic Cfb Staff, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
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Cosmic beings, eclipse season is at it again.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 31 Aug. 2025
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When Squeeze showed his tongue, that was the reptile’s way of smelling beings around him.
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
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Each of these tiny beings is critical to the health of an ecosystem.
—Maggie Slepian, Longreads, 14 May 2026
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That’s not a f****** prop for your stream background that’s a living being.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
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There is a long way to go but something, this thing, is coming into being.
—David Greig september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
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The last photo in the post showed a close-up shot of the newborn being bottle fed.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
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That these beings are not taking care of us right now, but that a better time is coming.
—Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
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The idea of her, as the gentlest being, had haunted my childhood.
—Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Strassman has his own theories of what these beings could be.
—Charles Moss, SPIN, 16 July 2026
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Like humans they can be trained to be horrible beings.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
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Now, with the stadium being right there in front of them, there’s no excuse.
—Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2026
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And for the time being, the girlfriend rumors are just that – rumors.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
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For the time being, nothing is – nothing is on the table.
—CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
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Animals are sentient beings that must be cared for.
—Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
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