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Example sentences for "being employed"

  • They were from Brescia, very intimate with Titian, and merited the honour of being employed by him, in his architectural ornaments for several of his pieces.

  • The third by receiving wages for work done, and this either by being employed in some mean art, or else in mere bodily labour.

  • Charles Griffin had charge of the school here, being employed, in 1715, by Governor Spotswood to teach the Indian children, and to bring them to Christianity.

  • A Trope consists in a word's being employed," &c.

  • Tropes consist in a word's being employed to signify something that is different from its original and primitive meaning.

  • This very circumstance of a word's being employed antithetically, renders it important in the sentence.

  • The former, Figures of Words, are commonly called Tropes, and consists in a word's being employed to signify something, which is different from its original and primitive meaning.

  • These valuable properties render horn susceptible of being employed in a variety of works fit for the turner, snuff-box, and comb maker.

  • Lysander, being employed in the greatest commands and affairs of State, by a sober and well-governed city, may be said to have had repute as the best and most virtuous man, in the best and most virtuous commonwealth.

  • With so strong and invincible a desire of being employed in that business had he been possessed through his pride and emulation.

  • This Agrippa refused, and complained of being employed in such follies.

  • But he survived all these perils, being employed by the Pope on various missions and passing his leisure in literary labours.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being employed" 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 alone; being always; being anxious; being called; being capable; being contrary; being convinced; being eager; being formed; being heard; being invisible; being like; being modernized; being questioned; being raised; being read; being regarded; being summoned; being treated; being true; being willing; being wounded; being written; brought into; protective tariff