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Example sentences for "for being"

  • For being still in great alarm, I had kept a very sharp lookout.

  • And after hurrying home to breakfast and returning in like haste, I got a scare, such as I well deserved, for being so extremely foolish.

  • This was not their fault at all, but all my own, for being unable to keep my secret about the great nugget.

  • For being cannot be understood, unless being is intelligible.

  • But the true appears to be prior to being; for being is not understood except under the aspect of the true.

  • For being belongs to that which has being--that is, to what subsists in its own being.

  • He is scandalized at youth for being lively, and at childhood for being playful.

  • Virtue, with most of its species, is made feminine when personified; and so is Vice, perhaps for being Virtue's opposite.

  • Virtue, with most of its Species, is Feminine, and so is Vice, for being Virtue's opposite.

  • Example: "The Jews were in a particular manner ridiculed for being a credulous people.

  • For being in the best clothes, one tries to look and to act (so far as may be) up to the quality of them.

  • For being in haste of the homeward road, and all my heart having heels to it, loath I was to stop in the dusk for the sake of an aged wether.

  • I find my Lord, as he is reported, a very ready, quiet, and diligent person.

  • Mr. Peter did show us the experiment (which I had heard talke of) of the chymicall glasses, which break all to dust by breaking off a little small end; which is a great mystery to me.

  • Lord was much troubled for his friends' missing of it.

  • Pen, who are gone down thither, for me to pick out some works to be done for the setting out the fleet again; and so I took them home with me, and was drawing out an abstract of them till midnight.

  • I saw several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle.

  • But this is nothing to what follows; for being obliged to make his sense intelligible, we are forced to untune our own verses that we may give his meaning to the reader.

  • But the wretched translator has no such privilege, for being tied to the thoughts, he must make what music he can in the expression; and for this reason it cannot always be so sweet as that of the original.

  • When I recovered a little from my surprise, I called myself a thousand fools, for being afraid to see the devil one moment, who had now lived almost twenty years in the most retired solitude.

  • For being seated in the highest parts of the body it diffuses its force into every member.

  • It is of a figure almost round, inclining somewhat to an oblong, in part resembling a pear; for being broad at the bottom, it gradually terminates in the point of the orifice which is narrow.

  • But even I myself share this fortune; for being wise, to some I am an object of envy, but to others, unsuited; but I am not very wise.

  • Remove thy sword, for being so near me it gleams horrid slaughter.

  • Yes, he has had a fortune left him; as for being a great catch"--and the shrug of her shoulders finished her answer.

  • As for being married in the near future, your father's death will certainly forbid that, and I think Mr. Traverse will find that you are still under my authority, and that I am not quite so fond of him as your father was.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for being" 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:
    for our present purpose; for some time past; for such; for the greater part; for their; for these; for want; for what; forced upon; forcible resistance; forcing himself; foreign birth; foreign country; foreign court; foreign courts; foreign intercourse; foreign vessels; form the; former birth; former letter; former years; formic acid; forms part; fortified place; forty acres; impose upon