Sample Sentences for
engender
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  • envy engenders spite [ill will]  (source)
    engenders = gives rise to
  • The impossible excitement that this engendered in Baby Kochamma wasn't hard to understand.  (source)
    engendered = caused
  • sound that engenders the explosion  (source)
    engenders = causes
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  • He was concluding with a precis on the unhealthy attitudes engendered by Maycomb County when she interrupted:  (source)
    engendered = caused
  • Reputation is always worth more than money. ... This the power lovely and terrible, what we try to engender in Kwang's giant money club,  (source)
    engender = create (cause)
  • I hope, someday, that I will be surrounded by so much love, so much loyalty and patience, as that boy engenders.  (source)
    engenders = causes (tends to create around him)
  • The crowds of novices being escorted to the top for a fee, huffed Sir Edmund, were engendering disrespect for the mountain.  (source)
    engendering = causing
  • Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children; You owe me no subscription: then let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man:—But yet I call you servile ministers, That will with two pernicious daughters join Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this!†  (source)
  • ...for all the talk this question has engendered over the years, there have been very few attempts within the profession to formulate an official answer.  (source)
    engendered = caused
  • He was crying quietly, and it might have been enough to engender sympathy had he not been wearing a T-shirt splattered with the blood of other students.  (source)
    engender = cause
  • Suffering engenders wrath;  (source)
    engenders = causes (brings about)
  • Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice  (source)
    Engendering = causing
  • True is it that we have seen better days, And have with holy bell been knoll'd to church, And sat at good men's feasts, and wip'd our eyes Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd: And therefore sit you down in gentleness, And take upon command what help we have, That to your wanting may be minister'd.†  (source)
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