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Example sentences for "the beginning"

  • It happened at the beginning of the winter that a savage brown bear broke out of its den and raged about destroying men and cattle.

  • Grettir took the precaution of sending his companion to the western districts with his horse, while he himself went North into the mountains at the beginning of the winter, muffling up his face so that no one should recognise him.

  • Three times you have disturbed me, if I remember rightly; and now are you any the wiser than you were in the beginning?

  • She answered: "This is the beginning of their destruction; I say that from this time onwards they will go downwards.

  • With this object he went at the beginning of the hay-harvest to Audunarstad.

  • I talked the matter over with the owner of the property, and told him of the beginning of the fund, the story of the little girl.

  • He was looking out thoughtfully into the waning light, and I knew that his mind was busy with those days of the beginning of the institution he so loves, and whose continued success means so much to him.

  • And it shall be the beginning of a pleasant secret courtship of six years, with a wedding at the end?

  • In passing the tower he thought of what she had said about the sergeant's virtuous habit of entering the church unperceived at the beginning of service.

  • Make me think it was something more--that it was a sort of prophetic instinct--the beginning of a feeling that you would like me.

  • Every room on the west front looked across a lawn to the beginning of the avenue immediately beyond tall iron palisades and gates.

  • They are given wrong notions from the beginning.

  • Everingham could not do without him in the beginning of September.

  • I add one purely pedantic note which comes, as a note naturally should, at the beginning of the book.

  • In fact, according to them, nothing ever really had happened since the beginning of the world.

  • At the beginning of this preliminary negative sketch I said that our mental ruin has been wrought by wild reason, not by wild imagination.

  • Begin at the beginning, at the cabin in the mountains.

  • I told how, under these conditions, the sins and vagaries of his parents had gone far to wreck his life at the beginning of it.

  • The men eased themselves in their places, pushing back from the table, lighting their cigars, talking of the beginning of the rains and the prospects of a rise in wheat.

  • The Anglo-Saxon started from there at the beginning of everything and it's manifest destiny that he must circle the globe and fetch up where he began his march.

  • Magnus and Harran Derrick had not yet been able to make up the time lost at the beginning of the season, when they had waited so long for the ploughs to arrive.

  • He began to protest once more, explaining the matter over again from the beginning.

  • Presley had forgotten all about the buster and had only a vague recollection of seeing him slide from his horse at the beginning of the fight.

  • So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

  • The time of the day was right for the eclipse; I had seen that for myself, in the beginning, by the dial that was near by.

  • I suppose that in the beginning I prized it, because we prize anything that is ours; and yet how foolish it was to think so.

  • It didn't cause me any trouble in the beginning --at least any of consequence.

  • He says it is the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live.

  • I shall not easily forget the way in which he handled the ship when we were caught by a gale among the loose ice at the beginning of April.

  • And now I come to the beginning of the end.

  • This fiction has been kept up during the whole voyage, and on dark nights at the beginning of the seal-fishing it was only with great difficulty that men could be induced to do their spell.

  • Thence she passed rapidly through the morass, and came to the farther end of it, where a sluggish burn discharges, and the path for Hermiston accompanies it on the beginning of its downward path.

  • If they were careful at the end, as (they should be) at the beginning, they would not so ruin them.

  • When we can lay hold of the Tao of old to direct the things of the present day, and are able to know it as it was of old in the beginning, this is called (unwinding) the clue of Tao.

  • Indeed I was by far in better heart and health of body at the end of that long tramp than I had been at the beginning.

  • Well, I would think so," says I; "for he was as keen as any of the rest at the beginning.

  • At the beginning of 1793 the Assembly declared that Belgium was united to France.

  • Woe to him who stirs up the dregs of a nation,'' said Rivarol at the beginning of the Revolution.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the beginning" 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:
    the blood; the daughter; the door; the image; the likeness; the same; the seas; the south; thee have; their lands; then being; then boil; then desired; then drop; then make; then marched; then press; then proceed; then slowly; then the; then thought; then work; then would; thence north; there were; things are