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Example sentences for "full grown"

  • Early in the spring it resumes its feeding, and is full grown at the end of May.

  • It is full grown in July or August, when it suspends itself after the manner of the other Vanessas previous to undergoing its changes.

  • The caterpillar is full grown at the end of June or beginning of July.

  • There is no difference in carving roast and boiled fowls if full grown; but in very young fowls the breast is usually served whole; the wings and breast are considered the best parts, but in young ones the legs are the most juicy.

  • When the caterpillar is full grown it thus finds itself fairly well concealed within a very substantial sort of a home.

  • They continue this until they become full grown in May when they change to chrysalids, to emerge as the first brood of butterflies the following month.

  • They continue to use this habitation until they are full grown as caterpillars and sometimes they change to chrysalids within it.

  • I told her that as far as I knew they varied slightly, but only had knowledge of youthful pricks, and could not be certain whether they varied much when full grown or not.

  • If it be full grown, and have had warning, and there be room enough, it will defend itself successfully.

  • Tergum: the surface exhibits traces of longitudinal striae: there is a deep longitudinal furrow, with the sides folded in and quite closed in full grown specimens: the scutal margin is considerably curved towards the scutum.

  • Relatively to a full grown female, the male slightly exceeds half the diameter of the toothed orifice leading into her sack, see (z) fig.

  • This bird is equal in size to a full grown hen; its feathers are of a very black colour, and its flesh extremely well tasted.

  • In size it resembles a full grown ass: in shape, if you except its eyes, head, and feet, a pig.

  • It feeds low down on the stems of reed (Phragmites communis) and is full grown in the spring of the second year following that in which it left the egg in late summer.

  • The caterpillar feeds in stems of alder, and is full grown in May of the third year after hatching from the egg.

  • The caterpillar, which is full grown in May, feeds on the inner bark of birch trees and bushes, apparently preferring the stumps left in the ground where stems have been cut down.

  • The amount of destructiveness contained in a full grown wolverine, or, as he is sometimes called, carcajo and Indian devil, is something past belief to any one who has not lived in the country in which they resort.

  • Our average for the whole year would probably be one small one to two middle or full grown.

  • At first I thought he might be of a second litter, but I thought this was very improbable, if not quite outside of nature, so I carefully examined the teeth and organs, and found to intents and purposes he was a full grown beaver.

  • When the dobson is full grown, it is called a hellgrammite fly or horned corydalis.

  • The cicada is full grown at last, and his empty nymph skin is hanging to a branch.

  • The Cecropia moth emerges from the cocoon, full grown, in early summer, when out of doors.

  • Its presence shows that the female is full grown.

  • Large females may be three-quarters of an inch long, with legs measuring an inch and a quarter, while others may be full grown at half that size.

  • The presence of these organs shows that the male is full grown.

  • Corn for boiling should be full grown, but young and tender, and the grains soft and milky.

  • The seeds, when gathered, should be full grown, but by no means hard; and the color a fine green.

  • Green apples, if full grown, cook well, and have a pleasant acid.

  • Take green tomatos when they are full grown, but have not yet begun to turn in the least red.

  • Large or full grown asparagus is the best.

  • Footnote: The carrots should be put in early, as they require a long time to boil; if full grown, at least three hours.

  • In the Adelaide district, Mr. Moorhouse has observed, that there are five stages to be passed through, before the native attains the rank of a bourka, or full grown man.

  • Though not of a large species, it was a full grown animal, and furnished us with a grateful supply of wholesome food.

  • They were about the size of full grown fowls.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "full grown" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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