Used in a Sentence

causing

How to use causing in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for causing.

Editorial note

It's clearly causing him a lot of misery.

Examples8
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

the act of causing something to happen

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of causing gathered in one view.

noun

the act of causing something to happen

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for causing.

noun

the act of causing something to happen

Example sentences

1

It's clearly causing him a lot of misery.

2

You can't just push through the physical symptoms of extreme stress and exhaustion, at least not without causing even more harm.

3

You can't even cheat by regularizing wikitext as you go, because then you're causing spurious changes that the community can't easily police.

4

They couldn't figure out how to make a touch screen, the processor wasn't available, Sir Ive's case was impermeable to RF, the LCD was causing interference on the multitouch display, etc...

5

Video is “significantly congesting these networks, and causing real issues for carriers where they have to spend a lot of money upgrading networks, and pushing fiber deeper into their networks,” he says.

6

And the Snowden slides seem to be causing Congress to pay closer attention to the issue, which is a good thing even if they may not literally be giving the committees any information they didn't already have.

7

Typical Adobe rot is setting in; the last version had a catastrophic bug causing the xml manifest to simply not be read during the build process, because a critical "for" loop was referencing the child element of a nonexistent variable.

8

After hiring a firm out of the midwest to manage the construction on a fixed-fee contract, it proceeded to make life miserable for that firm by making never-ending revisions to the project plans throughout the course of construction and this not only caused that firm to incur cost overruns but also had the effect of causing substantial delays in getting the work done.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use causing in a sentence?

It's clearly causing him a lot of misery.

What does causing mean?

the act of causing something to happen

What part of speech is causing?

causing is commonly used as noun.