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Example sentences for "being the"

  • The Cinder Cone near Lassen's Butte is remarkable as being the scene of the most recent volcanic eruption in the range.

  • He firmly refused to make the venture to find the camp, while I, aware of the dangers that would necessarily attend our efforts, and conscious of being the cause of his present peril, decided not to leave him.

  • At first Avary had a great part of a mind to settle at Boston, in Massachusetts, and had that little town been one whit less bleak and forbidding, it might have had the honor of being the home of this famous man.

  • But of this the careless buccaneers thought never a whit, the only thing that troubled them being the lack of a more convenient shipping point than the main island afforded them.

  • In a practical point of view, they listlessly abandoned the matter, as being the business of some other Britons unknown, somewhere, or nowhere.

  • Meagre and spare, like all the other rooms, it was even uglier and grimmer than the rest, by being the place of banishment for the worn-out furniture.

  • For though Lorna's father was a nobleman of high and goodly lineage, her mother was of yet more ancient and renowned descent, being the last in line direct from the great and kingly chiefs of Lorne.

  • Andrea at his departure inherited all the papers which proved that he had indeed the honor of being the son of the Marquis Bartolomeo and the Marchioness Oliva Corsinari.

  • I own that I am lost in wonder to find myself promoted to an honor of which I feel myself unworthy--that of being the husband of Mercedes.

  • This promise of an impotent old man was so strange that, instead of being the result of the power of his will, it might emanate from enfeebled organs.

  • However, being the last, why not ease my mind?

  • And so says this courteous host of mine, 'Being the foes of mankind, why make enemies of good spirits into the bargain, by still shouting the names of evil ones?

  • What is to prevent him, being the man he is, from going straight to his end, on those conditions?

  • After that it all fades off like, and the new years come with a strange look, being the years of a new life.

  • Fire-place; A B being the opening of it in front, A C and B D the two sides or covings, and C D the back.

  • A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus Cæsar.

  • Speculation moved with an accelerated velocity every successive day, the only disagreeable contingency connected with it being the possibility of a collapse.

  • Why, that's the very thing I said just now as being the principle of all ephemeral doers like myself.

  • Windy Beak was the second cliff in height along that coast, and, as is frequently the case with the natural features of the globe no less than with the intellectual features of men, it enjoyed the reputation of being the first.

  • The physical constitution, the habits, sentiments, ideas, and tendencies of one social stratum are far from being the same as those of other strata.

  • He is the Wonder of all the Land Animals, being the size of a Badger, and near that Colour.

  • This day, we met with seven heaps of Stones, being the Monuments of seven Indians, that were slain in that place by the Sinnagers, or Iroquois.

  • Plaice are here very large, and plentiful, being the same as in England.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being the" 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 admitted; being again; being boiled; being buried; being cast; being contrary; being convinced; being devoured; being done; being easily; being elected; being full; being invisible; being many; being modernized; being nearly; being only; being read; being thus; being treated; being vanquished; being watched; being willing; heavy fine; never felt; resting upon