How to use "being" in a sentence

I don't like being small.'

Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever - it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

For instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy a year or two hence arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this."

And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice.

While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrument itself; and I should, under existing circumstances, favor rather than oppose a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act upon it

To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied Constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail, by the judgment of this great tribunal, the American people.

You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors

While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war

On the contrary, I hold that non-cooperation is a just and religious doctrine; it is the inherent right of every human being and it is perfectly constitutional

At the end of the year, however, Thenardier was not happy with just seven francs a month; he demanded twelve and Fantine paid without protest, happy that her daughter was being well cared for.

After all her pain and suffering she had, for the first time in her life, found kindness in another human being

After being released from prison, this Valjean stole some silver from the Bishop of Digne and robbed a small boy on a public footpath

To avoid being seen, he never went out during the day

After a while, he felt confident that he and Cosette were not being followed

I'm tired of being poor

She sat on the bench where she had found the notebook and, moments later, had the strange feeling that she was being watched

'Forgive me for being here.' Marius spoke at last

'Oh, Marius, why are you being so cruel to me?'

He was being followed! He pressed himself against the wall, held his breath and waited

You're upsetting me very much, and I don't know why you're being so cruel.'

And a police officer helps him to stand and says something about him being a hero.

Several areas in the school are being renovated."

But then he felt school ties being wrapped around his hands and feet and mouth

Is he strange? Or are you just being silly?

"I'm not talking about being afraid

But she could see he was only being fair.

For a moment, this felt as unreal as being in a pod

Maybe he was just being protective - worried that the rebels would put her in danger

Lucky Ding, being there with you!"

It had been so much fun, in spite of their lives being so limited

Maxim was smiling, but he said nothing about being happy

You don't mind being alone, do you?'

She must hate you being here.'

'Why must she hate me being at Manderley?'

I thought Maxim was being very unkind

'And forgive me for being so unkind.'

'I can't help being shy.'

'I hate being here without you.'

I thought about the church where Rebecca was being buried at last.

Five years ago, however, on her twenty-eighth birthday, she began to realize that she had, if she was lucky, ten years left as a show dancer, and she decided to establish herself in the business in another capacity, to avoid being washed up at thirty-eight

She was able to think about the boy without crying, to visit his grave without being overcome by grief

Somehow, the act of giving away his clothes would be even sadder and more final than watching his casket being lowered into the ground.

She was also worried about being responsible for a ten-million-dollar budget

Shattered by the loss of his son, Michael had been irrationally vicious with Tina for months after the funeral, accusing her of being responsible for Danny's death

He made no great show of being more than ordinarily interested in her, but the attraction she held for him was evident in his eyes

Or perhaps this was the first time in all those months that she had been aware of being the object of such interest

Vivienne Neddler parked her vintage 1955 Nash Rambler at the curb in front of the Evans house, being careful not to scrape the whitewalls

As Vivienne reached the back of the house, the crescent moon slid out from behind one of the few thin clouds, like a scimitar being drawn from a scabbard, and the pale shadows of palms and melaleucas shivered on the lunar-silvered concrete patio.

The cast of Magyck! Took several bows, then the crew, then the orchestra, all of them flushed with the excitement of being part of an unqualified hit

Danny's cry escalated into a scream of terror; he was being buried alive

They think they're being overcharged, and they argue with the desk clerks

He still persisted in regarding her as a flighty woman who wanted to take a fling at being a Vegas producer

He was happy being a blackjack dealer; his salary and his good tips were enough for him, and he was content to coast through the years

She had to stop being so gloomy

As she drove across the intersection and into the entrance drive that led to the Golden Pyramid Hotel, Tina couldn't shake the creepy feeling that she was being watched by someone who meant to harm her

She checked the rearview mirror to see if she was being followed

being a good listener."

I wouldn't be able to fantasize about Danny still being alive."

"I like to see a man being domestic."

Although she was different from Nancy in many ways, being with her was like being with Nancy

They were both being driven by natural forces

This was perfect weather for flying, one of those crystalline days when being above the earth would make him feel clean and free.

"So stop being so damn stubborn."

"We're being followed," he said.

He had taken pleasure in stalking human prey; hell, there had even been a measure of joy in being stalked, for it gave him the opportunity to prove himself by outwitting the hunter on his trail

But once more, incredibly, he was being hunted, and he wondered how long he could survive.

While Elliot drove, he told Tina what had happened at his house: the two thugs, their interest in the possibility of Danny's grave being reopened, their admission that they worked for some government agency, the hypodermic syringes...

"At least for the time being."

And the boy in the story being Danny's age

We should be able to talk without being overheard

not just, as if I'm being watched but..

my house being blown up..."

It was ludicrous to suspect any of them of being employed by the secret organization that had blown up her house

She had the same feeling of being watched that she'd had in the parking lot a short while ago.

"Listen," she said excitedly, "we thought someone was sending me messages about Danny being alive just to rub my face in the fact that he was actually dead - or to let me know, in a roundabout fashion, that the way he died wasn't anything like what I'd been told

They aren't being sent by a total stranger or by Michael

"First of all," Elliot said, "before he went into the mountains with Jaborski, in all the years you knew him and lived in the same house with him, did Danny ever show any signs of being psychic?"

Danny's alive, being held somewhere, and he's trying to reach me with his mind

Bruckster held his hand eighteen inches below Michael Evans's eyes, so that the dealer was forced to glance down to see what was being shown to him.

He gasped in surprise as he realized he was being squirted.

"How could it be a heart attack, him being so young?" Bruckster wondered

Then you can follow him without being seen, at your leisure."

He had no feeling of being watched.

Apparently, this was the same astonishing awareness of being buffeted by waves of love that had caused Tina's laughter.

He's more important because he's a human being, not because he's a source of data, Dombey thought angrily, but he didn't voice the thought because it would have identified him as a dissident and as a potential security risk.

Dombey's concern for the kid was greater than his fear of being trapped underground and buried alive, and finally his attack of claustrophobia diminished

When they were nearly halfway across the graveyard, when Elliot was positive they weren't being pursued, he stopped, leaned against a tall monument, and tried not to take such huge, deep gulps of the painfully cold air

The clerk requested ID or a major credit card, and Elliot told a sad story of being victimized by a pickpocket at the airport

Tina said, "Elliot, listen, I told you he would show us where he's being kept, and he drew that route for us

The trees hung low, lower, lower still, until, at last, the ice-crusted evergreen boughs frequently scraped across the roof of the Explorer with a sound like fingernails being drawn down a blackboard.

Occasionally wind found the aircraft and pummeled it, but the chopper bobbed and weaved like a good boxer, and it no longer seemed in danger of being dealt a knockout punch.

When they were reluctant, he made up a story about a friend being stranded in the mountains with a broken leg

"But after everything you said to Zachariah about this place being run by megalomaniacs, and after you've made it so clear you don't agree with everything that goes on here, why do you want to stay?"

A year later, Tina has reason to believe the accident did not occur as reported - that her son is alive, is being held against his will, and is in desperate need of her

So he is praised for being merely incompetent and not also drunk, and he is given a second chance

If anyone could see me turn on the light to answer it, I suppose I would look like any other sleepy man annoyed at being disturbed

Of course I never thought that he would try an experiment with a human being, not then anyway

'But you're wrong about there being nothing worth stealing

Lawrence knew about that clock being ahead

It is difficult to imagine being in such a position, but I cannot believe I would be upset myself.'

His eyes were looking at the note in my hand and I have never seen such pain in any human being's face.

He was probably very angry about being sent to prison but would feel differently when he came out.

In the last years of the nineteenth century, no one believed that this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than our own

We had no idea that we were being studied almost as carefully as a scientist studies the small creatures in a drop of water

The end of the cylinder was being screwed out from within

If, on that Friday night, you had drawn a circle at a distance of five kilometres from Horsell Common, I doubt if there would have been one human being outside it, unless it was a relation of Stent, whose emotions or habits were affected by the new arrivals

Men were gardening, children were being put to bed, young people were out walking together.

Most of them were going to Chalk Farm station, where special trains were being loaded.

Wherever there was a possibility of guns being hidden, they fired a cylinder of Black Smoke at them, and where the guns could be seen they used the Heat-Ray.

All the railway lines north of the Thames had been warned by midnight on Sunday, and trains were being filled

By three the crowds were so large around the stations that people were being pushed over and walked on

Realizing from his face that a fight was unavoidable, and being a good boxer, my brother hit him hard and knocked him back onto the wheel of the cart.

It one had flown over London that morning, every road to the north or east would have seemed black with moving refugees, everyone a frightened and exhausted human being.

My brother heard that about half the members of the government had met in Birmingham, in central England, and that enormous amounts of explosive were being prepared to be used in the Midlands

And then a quick movement of the steamboat (which had turned to avoid being hit) threw him off the seat on which he had been standing

But no human being saw as much of them as I did and lived to tell the story, and I can say that I have seen four, five or six of them slowly performing the most difficult work without sound or any other signal

At a later date we began to feel less in danger of being seen because the sunlight outside was very bright, but at first anything approaching the house drove us back into the hall in fear

In our desire to watch, we even fought each other within a few centimeters of being seen.

Then I heard the sound of a heavy body - I knew whose it was - being dragged across the floor of the kitchen towards the opening

Soon I had an odd feeling of being watched and, turning suddenly, I saw something hiding in some of the bushes

'No,' I cried, 'that's impossible! No human being -'

'Why were you walking around on the common,' I asked, 'instead of being here?'

The line on the London side of Woking station was still being repaired, so I got off the train at Byfleet and took the road to Maybury, past the place where I had seen the Martian fighting- machine in the thunderstorm

I do not think that nearly enough attention is being paid to this

'Stop being stupid, Harris,' I said.

'You're being very silly

Until you came here, Laura was like hundreds of other women who marry without being attracted to their husbands

Miss Halcombe said, 'Walter, we must all go to London immediately! We're probably being followed!'

People thought that a woman's only job was being a wife and mother

She did many things that women were not able to do before, like being an MP

This taught her that being a tennis player was more difficult for girls.

The goals are there to stop people from being poor, to look after the Earth and to stop war