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Example sentences for "grows"

Lexicographically close words:
grown; grownd; growne; grownup; grownups; growth; growths; groyne; grub; grubbed
  1. In the pine woods of the mountains grows also a certain close-clipped parasitic moss.

  2. Down the river ten miles you can go: then the gorge closes, the river grows savage, you can only look down the tumbling fierce waters and turn back.

  3. In the mountains, the high mountains above the seven or eight thousand foot level, grows an affair called the snow-plant.

  4. The narrow-leafed papery-barked tree grows on the sides of the creek to a great size and height, completely overtopping the gums, oaks, etc.

  5. It grows in all quarters of the globe, and almost in every climate; and in hot countries two or three crops of it may be raised from the same ground in the course of a year.

  6. The stalk of the flower grows very rapidly.

  7. We saw the plant, the leaf of which is very much like a clover-leaf, and the nut grows underground on the roots like artichokes.

  8. The arbutulum grows here like a large tree, and blossoms profusely.

  9. Maile [My-le] is a beautiful vine that grows on the islands, and is often used for wreaths.

  10. To look at ice ought to make us want to study, so we can learn all about it, and about the people who live where it grows thick and can be driven with dogs upon.

  11. I look around the empty room, The clock still ticking in its place, And all else silent as the tomb, Till suddenly, I think, a face Grows from the darkness just beside.

  12. Now she is set upon the pile, The mob grows still a little while, Till lo!

  13. When I wholly commit and refer myself to my memory, I lay so much stress upon it that it sinks under me: it grows dismayed with the burden.

  14. It is a sad, sad thing that one grows old so soon.

  15. The homage thus paid was too delicate to give offense; it was of that kind which is most flattering to the heart, which never grows familiar, but is insinuated or suggested rather than expressed.

  16. Now dim, and more dim, grows in me all the memory of how thou and I did come to meet.

  17. But time glides on, and grand old Pierre grows old: his life's glorious grape now swells with fatness; he has not the conscience to saddle his majestic beast with such a mighty load of manliness.

  18. Rhenish wine, too long unquaffed by Death, grows thin and sour in the veins.

  19. If the same labor which grows three quarters of wheat on any given soil would always grow on that soil five quarters of oats, the three and the five quarters would be of the same value.

  20. The notion of immortality which grows from such a conception of self is purged of the old vain conceit.

  21. Father," I said, "It is dead, And nothing grows on the grave.

  22. I would not dry one single dew of grief: The sorrow-freighted lashes which bespeak The broken heart and soul are dear to me; I mourn with them, and mourning so I find The grief-bowed soul with weeping oft grows light!

  23. It is no boast, it is no threat, Thus History's iron law decrees; The day grows hot!

  24. There it is soon enveloped by a mucous membrane, which grows around it and incloses it.

  25. Hair grows on chin, upper lip, cheeks, and often on the body surface.

  26. Chest and arms broaden, the frame grows more angular, the masculine proportions more pronounced.

  27. The animal continually strains its neck in the search for food, hence it grows longer as the individual grows older, and this elongated neck has been transmitted to the offspring.

  28. It's high time that the Working Men should have it their own way, And their prospect of obtaining it grows brighter every day!

  29. My love, which has endured so much, grows strong In its endurance; and it only asks That I may never from thy side be driven.

  30. I would have you look over my shoulder Ere the long, dark year is colder, And mark that as memory grows older, The brighter it pulses and gleams.

  31. It was my fourth visit to the metropolis, a city which grows only more wonderful at every view.

  32. When life grows dreary and monotonous, as in the Embarkation Center, the chief diet of the soldier is such rumors of going home.

  33. Being his mother--when he goes away I would not hold him overlong, and so Sometimes my yielding sight of him grows O So quick of tears, I joy he did not stay To catch the faintest rumor of them!

  34. The magnolia grows and comes into full flower on Cape Ann, many degrees out of its proper region.

  35. The plot grows thick;-- Was it this cold and even pulse That thrilled with life so fierce and quick?

  36. The Roman Catholic Church grows in popularity with the working class, and in many towns and cities the Church of England and the Salvation Army are distinctly popular.

  37. Nevertheless, the national movement grows steadily in numbers and in influence, for it is difficult for those who, politically minded, have once known political freedom, to resign themselves to political subjection.

  38. So I strive, kyrie, but he grows very strong.

  39. There are moments when the dullest mind grows prophetic, and the mind of the Athenian was not dull.

  40. It’s we graybeards that Tyche, ‘Lady Fortune,’ grows tired of helping.

  41. UP HILL AND DOWN DALE Up hill and down dale; Butter is made in every vale; And if that Nancy Cook Is a good girl, She shall have a spouse, And make butter anon, Before her old grandmother Grows a young man.

  42. He grows weaker and weaker; it seems to me as though the strength were ebbing away from him.

  43. It grows white because the blood returns to whence it came," said Indaba-zimbi.

  44. One has to say to B what one has said to A; to C exactly what one has said to A and B; and when it comes to repeating to F the formularies one has uttered to A, B, C, D and E one grows almost hysterical with the boredom of it.

  45. Mrs. Marsh, that keeps our boarding house, has a garden where it grows wild in among the peas.

  46. There's a little water-plant that grows in Ashbridge's Bay, called the Anacharis, and this little weed got on to the bottom of the ocean vessels.

  47. The plant of our illustration is a native of the eastern portion of the United States, where it grows in sandy or rocky woods and is more abundant in mountainous regions.

  48. The maiden then passed away through the woods and over the prairies and wherever her footsteps lingered, there grows today the sweet-breathed mayflower.

  49. This shrub, which grows to a maximum height of twenty feet, is a superb object early in June, when it is covered with corymbs of rather large pink or pinkish-white flowers and numerous evergreen leaves.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    grows from; grows naturally; grows rapidly; grows spontaneously; grows well; grows wild