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Example sentences for "begin upon"

  • Footnote 1: It has been objected that the Morning-Glory seed is too small to begin upon.

  • For reasons hereafter given, I consider the Morning-Glory the best seedling to begin upon.

  • The Magnolia is therefore less desirable to begin upon.

  • Large works of this nature, while they create an inconceivable development of commerce, must have a certain amount of a trading population to begin upon.

  • Our Jenny is going to be married to Tom Higginbotham, and he was speaking of wanting a bit of land to begin upon.

  • Meanwhile I stood waiting to make my bow; afraid to begin upon him, and wondering at his great bull-head.

  • I felt nothing except that here was another matter to begin upon; and it might be worth while, or again it might not, to have another fight for it.

  • For though we had plenty of victuals with us we were not to begin upon them, until all chance of victualling among our friends was left behind.

  • She addressed the attache, who was at a loss now what to begin upon.

  • The dinner is you, and the talks I have before me with you, which I could never have with anyone else; and I don't know which subject to begin upon first.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "begin upon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    begin again; begin upon; begin with; begin work; beginning with; diddle diddle; endless variety; fifty guns; foul play; had caught; her great; including forestry; making them; many battles; natural love; natural objects; overwhelming majority; ready enough; really cannot; sensible objects; should think; then draw; three families; true civilization; what respects; who had been appointed