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Example sentences for "being under"

  • Being under water, or beneath the surface of water; adapted for use under water; submarine; as, a subaqueous helmet.

  • Brought into debt; being under obligation; held to payment or requital; beholden.

  • Stature: One man is of medium height, the rest are short, 2 being under 1.

  • The interruptions of his family, the loss of the accustomed obedience of his servants, and the idea of being under restraint, in a place where he considers himself the master, will be constant sources of irritation to his mind.

  • In a short time he was removed to the hospital, where he expressed great satisfaction in being under my inspection.

  • The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil.

  • The state of being under \'d2strual influence, or of having sexual desire.

  • Being under parole to Master Stickles, I only went out betwixt certain hours; because I was accounted as liable to be called upon; for what purpose I knew not, but hoped it might be a good one.

  • It was a very fine piece of work, as three men to whom he read it (but only one at a time) pronounced, being under seal of secrecy.

  • One more spring, and he was on earth again, instead of being under it; and Jeremy leaped on his back, and stooped, for he knew that they would fire.

  • This could hardly have been more galling to any disposition than to Lydgate's, with his intense pride--his dislike of asking a favor or being under an obligation to any one.

  • I don't enter into some people's dislike of being under an obligation: upon my word, I prefer being under an obligation to everybody for behaving well to me.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being under" 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 alone; being anxious; being borne; being brought; being connected; being dead; being drawn; being exposed; being given; being heated; being interpreted; being killed; being like; being present; being rather; being resolved; being saved; being sensible; being slain; being told; being under; being weary; being what; common experience; little solution; then from