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Example sentences for "plant"

Lexicographically close words:
planned; planner; planners; planning; plans; planta; plantae; plantain; plantains; plantane
  1. Do you know if the wireless plant is in the cabin?

  2. The aerials are now down and all traces of the plant above ground have been removed.

  3. What's the matter with his having a plant of his own?

  4. At the direction of the Secret Service man, for reasons known to himself, the plant was left as it was for the time being.

  5. I once took sixteen in about half an hour on one particular spot, where the above-mentioned plant was very plentiful; but unless the sun was very bright they were very difficult to find.

  6. This display of instinct would seem far less wonderful did the mother butterfly herself feed on the plant she commits her eggs to.

  7. The caterpillar, whose food plant is unknown, is stated by Duncan to be "light green, with brown and white longitudinal stripes; head reddish.

  8. Cardamine impatiens is so local a plant that it cannot be the common food of the larvae of Cardamines.

  9. No props you plant for your decline, No partner soothes these cares of thine.

  10. The luxuriant growth of the plant renders the frequent application of the pruning-knife necessary during the summer.

  11. A seed may therefore develop into a male or female plant; if a male plant it will of course not produce nutmegs.

  12. Previous to 1200 nutmegs were quite expensive, but soon became cheaper as the plant was more and more extensively cultivated.

  13. As already stated the nutmeg plant is dioecious.

  14. The Pine Apple plant will grow very well in any sort of rich earth taken from a quarter of the kitchen garden, or in fresh sandy loam taken from a common, long pastured with sheep, &c.

  15. He plunges them in the bark (refreshed as at each shifting) eighteen inches from plant to plant in the row, and twenty inches distance row from row.

  16. They will be fit to plant in five or six days.

  17. Let the plants remain in this state one hour, then take out the plants and wash them in cold water previously brought to the side of your bed, set them in a dry place with their tops downwards to drain, and afterwards plant them.

  18. Now, according to the above method, the whole of the roots which the plant produces being permitted to remain on the stem to the last, the old roots decay and turn mouldy, to the great detriment of those afterwards produced.

  19. They have asserted, that it is impossible to keep the Pine Apple plant throughout a severe winter without the assistance of fire.

  20. Speechly produced in the gardens at Welbeck, in 1794, a fruit that weighed five pounds and a quarter, or eighty-four ounces, and from a plant that was not a large one.

  21. My gardener is an extremely simple labourer, he does not know a letter or a figure; and he never saw a Pine plant growing, till he saw those of which he has the care.

  22. In planting suckers, I have, in several instances, left the stems and roots of the old plant remaining attached to them; and these have made a much more rapid progress than others.

  23. The same could be said of the liking for plant or animal life that appears in the "born biologist".

  24. Even a young plant may be tended with a devotion akin to the maternal.

  25. By those dashing waterfalls I will still lay up my winter's store of food; on these fertile meadows I will still plant my corn.

  26. Public confidence, a plant of slow growth, grew about him.

  27. Why did all-creating Nature Make the plant for which we toil?

  28. But there seems to be none and it may be justly urged that the roots of this quietism lie so deep in the Chinese character, that the plant cannot have sprung from some chance wind-wafted seed.

  29. The seed, the young plant and the flower can all be found on Indian soil.

  30. How few aspire to quit the ungrateful soil That starves the plant it had the strength to bear: How many stay, to grieve, and fret, and toil, And view the plenty that they must not share.

  31. Freedom shall find her charter clear, And plant her seat of commerce here.

  32. In cold December's iron-hearted reign Would you with blushing blossoms deck the plain; Would you with sound immure the Thirteen Stars, Or plant a garland on the front of Mars?

  33. The hedges are alive with lilies and woodruffs; the blue columbines shake their foolscap-like blossoms along the green side-paths; the milky spikes of the Virgin plant rise slender and tall among the bizarre and many-colored orchids.

  34. Footnote 153: the] Added perhaps by a mistake of the transcriber or printer.

  35. I believe) all convoys (conveyances) that can be cut off.

  36. Almeda speaks in prose, "I like that well," &c.

  37. Footnote 79: We will both watch and ward shall keep his trunk] i.

  38. I like that well: but, tell me, my lord, if I should let you go, would you be as good as your word?

  39. This and the next four speeches are evidently prose, as are several other portions of the play.

  40. Compare the first line of the next scene.

  41. For Niobe was a made to order herbarium for a swampland plant called viscaya.

  42. The plant was originally native to Algon IV, but had been spread to practically every suitable growth center in the Galaxy.

  43. This brood of folly shows how mistaken they are who, if they allow women to leave their harams, do not cultivate their understanding, in order to plant virtues in their hearts.

  44. She lives to see the virtues which she endeavoured to plant on principles, fixed into habits, to see her children attain a strength of character sufficient to enable them to endure adversity without forgetting their mother's example.

  45. Althea shrank from open combat with anybody, yet she could, under cover of gentle candour, plant her shafts.

  46. Helen looked at her with the look, vague, kind, and a little puzzled, that seemed to plant Aunt Julia's shaft anew.

  47. But you might plant cabbages now,' insisted her pétiote.

  48. Why should you not plant cabbages everywhere now if you like?

  49. I should like to plant some of our potatoes to-day, before knocking off work, if we can manage it.

  50. The sooner we plant the seed, the sooner it will grow up," said Fritz gravely.

  51. Eric, impetuous as usual, wanted to dig up and plant the entire lot; but Fritz was more practical, thinking it the wisest plan not to attempt too much at once.

  52. And a measure which would insure the running of the plant under a temporary receivership would, of course, do it.

  53. More business would then require an addition to every part of the plant and would thus entail new fixed costs which would have to be charged against the new business.

  54. There was this same contract to maintain prices strengthened by a corresponding contract to hold the output of every plant within definite limits.

  55. Instead, even though he cannot earn full interest on the original cost of his fixed establishment, he will continue to run as long as he can make his plant earn anything at all.

  56. Far more often it makes it for his interest to increase the number and to put new labor in every part of the plant where no improvement in method has been made.

  57. The plant is worth what it would naturally cost to duplicate it; and an average rate of interest on that sum is the natural return from it.

  58. Monopoly makes earnings more or less independent of sums invested and causes purchasers to buy stock at rates that are independent of costs of plant and equipment and are fixed by earnings themselves.

  59. The result is a virtual reduction of the capitalized value of the plant (the interest on which is an item of cost), and this is what is represented by the descent of the dotted line which represents e's cost of production.

  60. If the amount of dividends remains fixed, the increase in the actual value of the plant itself will bring these dividends into the proper ratio to it.

  61. His plant is often superior to many of those operated by the trust.

  62. It is a sum which the plant owner foregoes as long as he refrains from selling the plant.

  63. The man or woman gives up singing, ceases to be interested in plant life, stops reading poetry.

  64. With regard to the nature of the material plant in which the family should live, there are also two widely different ideals struggling for favor in the public mind, and for realization in practice.

  65. Even amid your Corinthian columns you plant trees and shrubs; though you drive out Nature she will silently return and supplant your fond caprices.

  66. He bids his friend Varus plant vines in the moist soil of his own Tiburtine patrimony there; prays that when the sands of his life run low, he may there end his days; enumerates, in a noble ode (Od.

  67. A crimson or bright-red colour was imparted by a plant which required good land, and was cultivated in beds like table-vegetables, requiring great care.

  68. The stuff for dyeing blue was obtained from the woad-plant (called in Irish glasheen) after several stages of preparation, till it was made into cakes fit for use.

  69. It was usual for the founders of churches to plant trees round the buildings.

  70. This was the description of a balsam--which would cure every kind of sore or wound--distilled from a plant only to be found in a country so distant that it would take a man on foot two months to go and come back again.

  71. The plant had disappeared and in its stead was a thick syrup, just as the book had said there would be.

  72. He spared his horse only so much as was needful, yet it took him six days to reach the spot where the plant grew.

  73. There are the two oriflammes; which shall we plant on the farthest islands--the one that floats in heavenly fire, or that hangs heavy with foul tissue of terrestrial gold?

  74. Can they plough, can they sow, can they plant at the right time, or build with a steady hand?

  75. In view of preventing this method of poaching, especially on land where many partridges roost, keepers plant low scrubby thorns at intervals.

  76. It is quite a mistake to plant thorns, or even to stake out large branches.

  77. Upon examination we found that the larger of these were regularly used by our quarry, and, as we could not net them, we determined to plant a purse net at every smoot, drive the wood with fast dogs, and so bag our game.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    plant food; plant growth; plant lice; plant life; plant names; plant them; plantain leaf; plantation life; planted early; planted himself; plants and; plants belonging; plants from; plants growing