BEGINNING in a Sentence

Learn BEGINNING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
375 example sentences for BEGINNING, such as:
1. A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
2. A good beginning is half the battle.
3. It was just awful from the beginning.
4. The car's engine is beginning to act up.
5. The problem is beginning to assume mammoth proportions.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BEGINNING
beginning
 n.  the first part or section of something
 n.  the time at which something is supposed to begin
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  From the beginning of the discussion he had instinctively avoided the mention of Mattie's name, fearing he hardly knew what: criticism, complaints, or vague allusions to the imminent probability of her marrying.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  The cat had sprung to Zeena's rocking-chair, and the heat of the fire was beginning to draw out the faint sharp scent of the geraniums.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  It was just awful from the beginning.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  In the beginning, the Troop had been recruited exclusively from the sons of planters, a gentleman's outfit, each man supplying his own horse, arms, equipment, uniform and body servant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  The Litany of the Virgin was beginning, and obediently Scarlett responded: "Pray for us," as Ellen praised in soft contralto the attributes of the Mother of God.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  It was impossible to feel anything but palpitating joy in this warm sun, in this spring, with the chimneys of Twelve Oaks just beginning to show on the hill across the river.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  And high time they stopped it, for it's beginning to show.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  Now, listen to me, Gerald O'Hara, she retorted, her eyes beginning to snap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  Evidently, she was not the only one to whom this idea occurred, for several of the boys were beginning to stick out their chins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  Afternoon naps were a custom of the country and never were they so necessary as on the all-day parties, beginning early in the morning and culminating in a ball.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Through the mad tearing of ideas round and round in her brain, one was beginning to take form.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  Life and feeling and comprehension were beginning to flow back into her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  Her temper was beginning to rise again at the thought that this rude and impertinent man had heard everything--heard things she now wished she had died before she ever uttered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  Coolness was beginning to come back to her and her mind was collecting itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  Already the foundries were beginning to feel the lack of iron, for little or none came through the blockade, and the mines in Alabama were standing almost idle while the miners were at the front.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (165 in 12 pages)
1  Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
2  The car's engine is beginning to act up.
3  The airline is beginning to claw back some of the business it lost after the bomb explosion.
4  Although her illness is serious, her condition is beginning to stabilize.
5  I am filled with such joy at the sight of you two beginning together.
6  A pattern is beginning to emerge from our analysis of the accident data.
7  It plans to announce and begin delivering product to customers by the beginning of next month.
8  Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
9  Her arm was beginning to swell up where the bee had stung her.
10  The problem is beginning to assume massive proportions.
11  The problem is beginning to assume mammoth proportions.
12  A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
13  A good beginning is half the battle.
14  He was beginning to understand the seriousness of life.
15  I've read the whole book from beginning to end and still can't understand it.