Being

//ˈbiː.ɪŋ//

"Being" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Being objective means not telling everybody whose side you are on.

Liberty consists of being able to make everything as harmless as possible.

I have a great fear of being disdained by those I love and care about.

Ms. Eichler had a notorious reputation for being austere to her students.

He was sick of being vilified all the time by people who were jealous of his ability.

Freud's insights into human behavior led to him being honored as a profound thinker.

James had a great fear of making mistakes in class and being reprimanded.

In order to keep his original idea from being copied, Henry resorted to reticence.

Sometimes he has difficulty being articulate about his views.

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Minute grew into minute, and still there was no sign of life, nor did the curtain move; but I felt the gaze of the unknown being sinking through and through me, and filling me with a nameless terror, till the perspiration stood in beads upon my brow.

1608-1634, John Webster (and perhaps Thomas Heywood), Appius and Virginia Claudius, thou / Wast follower of his fortunes in his being.

For the service to be considered was not the service of one servant, but of two servants, and even of three servants, and even of an infinity of servants, of whom the first could not out till the second up, nor the second up till the third in, nor the third in till the first out, nor the first out till the third in, nor the third in till the second up, nor the second up till the first out, every going, every being, every coming consisting with a being and a coming, a coming and a going, a going and a being, nay with all the beings and all the comings, with all the comings and all the goings, with all the goings and all the beings, of all the servants that had ever served Mr. Knott, of all the servants that ever would serve Mr. Knott.

The written word, he often argued, could only ever be a low-fidelity reproduction of the fullness of being; any text was ultimately humbled by the reality that it sought to represent.

It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor.

’Tis a hard matter therefore to confine them, being they are so various and many […].

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