How do you use the word "because" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "because": It's because you don't want to be alone. That's because you're a girl.

Because Meaning

/bɪkəz/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

conjBy or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.

conjAs is known, inferred, or determined from the fact that.

Sentence Examples

It's because you don't want to be alone.

That's because you're a girl.

I did it because he told me to.

CEFR Practice Quiz

She missed the bus this morning ____ she accidentally overslept after a late night.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

I am late for the meeting ____ I missed the early morning bus today.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bi Proto-West Germanic *bī Old English bī Middle English by Proto-Italic *kaussā Old Latin caussa Latin causabor. Old French causebor. Middle English cause Middle English bi cause English because From Middle English bi cause, from bi (“by”) + cause, modelled on Old French par cause.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West." — 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

"In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual." — 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

"“Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain." — 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

"Simon[…]set the house on fire where he was born, because nobody should point at it." — 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:

"And God blessed the seuenth day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his worke, which God created and made." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 2:3:

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