Because

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"Because" in a Sentence (22 examples)

It's because you don't want to be alone.

That's because you're a girl.

Every person who is alone is alone because they are afraid of others.

"Why aren't you going?" "Because I don't want to."

You're lucky because he didn't bite you.

We can't sleep because of the noise.

"If you're tired, why don't you go to sleep?" "Because if I go to sleep now I will wake up too early."

If you don't understand something, it's because you aren't aware of its context.

Half an eye is very useful actually, because an animal can see half of another animal, which wants to eat it, and can get out of the way, and it will eat the animal, which has only one-half eye or only 49% of an eye, because this to it will not be enough, and the animal, which was eaten up, will have no children, because it is dead.

I slept a little during lunch break because I was so tired.

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I hid myself because I was afraid.

I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

“Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.

It must be broken, because I pressed the button and nothing happened.

I don't think he is a nice person, because he yells at people for no reason.

Simon[…]set the house on fire where he was born, because nobody should point at it.

My life is ruined because of you!

And God blessed the seuenth day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his worke, which God created and made.

He rejected me because revenge, I guess.

It doesn't work because reasons.

You probably know it better, however, as explanation by way of Internet—explanation that maximizes efficiency and irony in equal measure. I'm late because YouTube. You're reading this because procrastination. As the language writer Stan Carey delightfully sums it up: “‘Because’ has become a preposition, because grammar.”

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