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Example sentences for "being brought"

  • The King and Duke of York and the whole Court is mighty joyful at the Duchesse of York's being brought to bed this day, or yesterday, of a son; which will settle men's minds mightily.

  • That may expire; capable of being brought to an end.

  • Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.

  • A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current.

  • Being brought to trial they pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to death--a sentence that was executed on them.

  • It had been originally intended to introduce the subject simultaneously in both houses; but the illness of Lord Liverpool prevented it being brought forward in the upper house.

  • The Plague was likewise at Eham in the Peak of Derbyshire, being brought thither by means of a Box sent from London to a Taylor in that Village, containing some Materials relating to his Trade.

  • Hodges, had the same Original, being brought to us from Holland, but carried to them by Cotton imported from Turkey[34].

  • Being brought to trial, she was convicted and condemned upon circumstantial evidence, and finally executed on Kennington-common, though she denied the fact to the last moment of her life.

  • The other divisions landed also, but not without an obstinate opposition; and the stores, with the artillery, being brought on shore, the town of Louisbourg was formally invested.

  • Sacheverel, being brought to the bar of the house, acknowledged himself the author of both, and mentioned the encouragement he had received from the lord mayor to print that which was entitled, "The Perils of False Brethren.

  • On being brought in, he received another portion of his punishment.

  • For though never wronging any one in public or private, they not only lost their patrimony contrary to your laws, but also their remaining hope was blighted of being brought up by their grandfather.

  • They therefore, being brought on their way by the church, passed through Phenice and Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles.

  • Or, I am turned: that is, I am converted to thee, my God, by being brought to a better understanding by thy chastisements.

  • Defn: Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.

  • Defn: That may expire; capable of being brought to an end.

  • Defn: Capable of being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.

  • Scoffing and Blasphemy, calling the holy Bible, being brought up, bible bable, bible bable; and thus they did aloud and often.

  • On being brought to light, what did you discover different from before?

  • What did you first discover after being brought to light?

  • My poor afflicted governess was now as much concerned as I, and a great deal more truly penitent, though she had no prospect of being brought to trial and sentence.

  • President had been shot and was being brought to the emergency room.

  • We were informed by the hospital operator that Mr. Kennedy had been shot and was being brought to Parkland Hospital for care.

  • The words of Stubbs on being brought to the scaffold to undergo his sentence have been preserved, and well merit transcription.

  • This resulted in a white person's being brought to sit in the classroom, though at the outbreak of the war schools were closed altogether.

  • It was about 1526 that Negroes were first introduced within the present limits of the United States, being brought to a colony near what later became Jamestown, Va.

  • Somerset objected to this and in so doing raised the important legal question, Did a slave by being brought to England become free?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being brought" 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:
    being about; being affected; being alarmed; being allowed; being aware; being converted; being devoured; being eager; being entirely; being first; being heard; being once; being ordained; being placed; being pressed; being ready; being right; being seen; being slain; being then; being thrown; being unable; being weary; dearest friends; still going; total prohibition