BEGUN in a Sentence

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252 example sentences for BEGUN, such as:
1. He had begun to be excited, too.
2. The fruit has begun to drop down.
3. The building hasn't even been begun.
4. I'm glad they've begun asking riddles.
5. Mary had begun to listen in spite of herself.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BEGUN
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole
2  I'm glad they've begun asking riddles.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII. A Mad Tea-Party
3  Since she had been living in other people's houses and had had no Ayah, she had begun to feel lonely and to think queer thoughts which were new to her.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  She had begun to wonder why she had never seemed to belong to anyone even when her father and mother had been alive.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  Mary had begun to listen in spite of herself.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  The fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  She had even begun to find it interesting and to be sorry when she stopped or went away.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  She had begun to like the garden just as she had begun to like the robin and Dickon and Martha's mother.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  He was very much pleased to see gardening begun on his own estate.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  He said that if he felt even quite a little lump some day he should know his hunch had begun to grow.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  Mrs. Medlock had said his father's back had begun to show its crookedness in that way when he was a child.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  He had gone on rubbing his rust-red hair in a puzzled way, but a nice comforted look had begun to grow in his blue eyes.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  Dickon held Colin's arm strongly but the boy had not begun to falter.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  He had begun to be excited, too.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
15  He had indeed begun to wonder if it might not be wise to send some one out to explore the garden paths.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  May your birthday bring lots of joy in the year you have begun.
2  By the age of two most children have begun to communicate verbally.
3  I've only worn this jumper twice, and it's already begun to bobble.
4  The people at control have already begun to count down.
5  Her heart had begun to pound inside her chest like a captive animal.
6  Firstly, negotiations were begun with Forth Valley Enterprise with a view to establishing a training unit on campus.
7  The building hasn't even been begun.
8  The papers have begun to give greater publicity to the campaign against GM food.
9  The company has begun to challenge the supremacy of the current leading manufacturers in the textiles industry.
10  He must have picked up a cold — he's begun to snuffle.
11  Parliament has not yet begun to combat the deepening economic crisis, and public patience is wearing thin.
12  The fruit has begun to drop down.
13  Ministers have begun work on the vexed issue of economic union.
14  He'd already begun to establish quite a reputation as a journalist.
15  They've begun to hoard food and gaso-line and save their money.