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How do you use Being in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like beingness or existence, plus the exact meaning.

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Being in a sentence

Being meaning

present participle and gerund of be

Synonyms of Being

beingness existence state nonexistence nonbeing organism living thing animate thing

Using Being

  • The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of be
  • Useful related words include: beingness, existence, state, nonexistence.
  • In the example corpus, being often appears in combinations such as: of being, are being, and being.

Context around Being

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 33.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 10 start, 10 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Being

  • In this selection, "being" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 33.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, mask, horn, region, grass, held and given stand out and add context to how "being" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 1st horn being high 2nd and 2nd horn being low and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "being" sits close to words such as these, last and many, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with being

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

The trivial solution that being is being added to nothing is only a tautology : being is being. (17 words)

The species, the genus, and the difference are all equally being: a being is a being that is being. (19 words)

It must be nice being Biden, being old, being treated differently, being given advantages – but it is not good for America. (21 words)

Ogerpon has the unique ability to change its typing depending on what mask it is wearing, with the Teal Mask being pure Grass-type, the Wellspring Mask being Grass/Water, the Heartflame Mask being Grass/Fire, and the Cornerstone Mask being Grass/Rock. (43 words)

But there's also the new fear of getting crushed by a pane of glass, getting ripped in half by an elevator, being impaled thanks to a delayed airbag deployment, being blown up by a BBQ grill, and being trisected by fence shrapnel. (43 words)

It is the inquiry into being in so much as it is being ("being qua being"), or into beings insofar as they exist—and not insofar as (for instance) particular facts may be obtained about them or particular properties belong to them. (42 words)

Example sentences (20)

He said Assange has reported “nightmares of being held down in confined spaces, being trapped, being unable to move, being held, being captured, having to be cut out with wires, or even being decapitated”.

It must be nice being Biden, being old, being treated differently, being given advantages – but it is not good for America.

Ogerpon has the unique ability to change its typing depending on what mask it is wearing, with the Teal Mask being pure Grass-type, the Wellspring Mask being Grass/Water, the Heartflame Mask being Grass/Fire, and the Cornerstone Mask being Grass/Rock.

The rest of the world is being split into four distinct regions, with the first region being Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, the second region being the Americas, and the third region being Asia-Pacific.

According to Aristotle Leucippus differed from the Eleatics in not being encumbered by the "conceptual intermingling" of being and non-being, and Plato made the necessary distinction between "grades of being and types of negation".

Here, the 1st and 2nd horns played as a pair (1st horn being high, 2nd horn being low), and the 3rd and 4th horns played as another pair (3rd horn being high, 4th horn being low).

In Kleene's logic I can be interpreted as being "underdetermined", being neither true nor false, while in Priest's logic I can be interpreted as being "overdetermined", being both true and false.

It is the inquiry into being in so much as it is being ("being qua being"), or into beings insofar as they exist—and not insofar as (for instance) particular facts may be obtained about them or particular properties belong to them.

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Such phrases or clauses may play a variety of roles within sentences, often being nouns (for example being the subject of a sentence or being a complement of another verb), and sometimes being adverbs or other types of modifier.

The species, the genus, and the difference are all equally being: a being is a being that is being.

The trivial solution that being is being added to nothing is only a tautology : being is being.

Types of fouls There are three main types of fouls in Gaelic Football, which can result in the ball being given to the other team, a player being cautioned, a player being removed from the field, or even the game being terminated.

And so Israel is being blamed for being too effective -- or "disproportionate"-- in its bombing, and Hamas is rewarded for being too ineffective in its rocketing.

At the time of the application being submitted in October 2022, it drew a wave of applications from local residents- with over 230 public comments being made online, the overwhelming majority of these being objections.

But soon after being deployed to Ukraine the former prisoners realised they were being sent into a "total meat-grinder" without proper armaments or without even being told of the real situation on the front line, he said.

But there's also the new fear of getting crushed by a pane of glass, getting ripped in half by an elevator, being impaled thanks to a delayed airbag deployment, being blown up by a BBQ grill, and being trisected by fence shrapnel.

Each practice corresponds to a common experience that threatens to snatch breath away from a Black person, like being mistaken for another Black colleague, being followed while shopping, and feeling the pressure of being the only Black person in the room.

Phone boxes are being removed and houses are being tinned up in a part of Liverpool that is being blighted by crime and antisocial behaviour.

The findings, published on Friday, reveal that high levels of restraint were being used at the facility, that the health of patients was not being monitored after tranquilisation, nor were side-effects of medications being looked at.

The thought of it being planned by someone else, there being a photographer capturing the date, it being in the paper.

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Common combinations with being

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "being" in a sentence?
An example: "He said Assange has reported “nightmares of being held down in confined spaces, being trapped, being unable to move, being held, being captured, having to be cut out with wires, or even being decapitated”." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "being" from authentic English texts.
What does "being" mean?
Being means: present participle and gerund of be
What are synonyms of "being"?
Common synonyms of "being" include: beingness, existence, state, nonexistence, nonbeing, organism, living thing, animate thing.
How many example sentences with "being" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "being", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.