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Example sentences for "shoots"

Lexicographically close words:
shooter; shooters; shooteth; shooting; shootings; shop; shopgirl; shopgirls; shopkeeper; shopkeepers
  1. The same tempestuous wind, by the decree Of Eolus that plucked up by the roots, Far from its native stream, thy trunk, its shoots Stript off to flourish in a greener lea.

  2. It shoots out with buds of mistakes, and is beset by the briars of error; it grows luxuriant in hilly districts, with exuberance of its leafy branches.

  3. Being born with thy tender limbs resembling the tendrils of young plantains, and the soft shoots of lotus stalks, thou seemest now to have grown strong and stout in thy frame of body and mind.

  4. The plant of desire, which shoots out of the goodly soil of ignorant minds, shelters the flying passions under its shady foliage; as the coral plants foster the coral insects in them.

  5. The sides of heaven seemed to smile all around, with the denticulated clumps of evening clouds; and with the brightness of the moon beams, glittering on the shoots of Tamala trees.

  6. The minds of the ignorant, are subject to many pains and pleasures in this life; and the forest of their misdeeds, shoots forth in a thousand branches, bearing the woeful fruits of misery only.

  7. It is by the power of the all pervading soul, that the living principle shoots out in infinity forever, as the germs of trees sprout forth the seed in all places.

  8. The germ of knowledge growing in the mind, increases itself day by day, as the corn sown in good ground soon shoots forth into the paddy plant.

  9. As the seed of imagination falls in the field of the intellect, it shoots forth in the sprout of the mind, which becomes the germ of the wide spreading arbor of the universe.

  10. And as they go through the fields they bring the king a horse, on which he rides, and a bow and an arrow, which he shoots towards the part where he intends to go and make war.

  11. The cinnamon shoots forth in all shades from bright yellow to dark crimson.

  12. They resemble white roses, and form a singular contrast with the buds and shoots of the tree, which are of the deepest crimson.

  13. This evil principle, as it shows itself early, must be early lopped, or the rapid shoots it makes will, as your favorite Eve observes, Soon mock our scant manuring.

  14. Such fresh shoots of selfishness where I had hoped the plant itself had been eradicated!

  15. But while he seldom shoots over the heads of the uninformed, he never offends the judicious.

  16. Mother,' cried Harry, running in one day, 'Jack Denny says he shoots sparrows!

  17. The log was the trunk of an old oak, and a little way off stood the stump, with many new shoots and leaves coming out all round it.

  18. They haul on the line to bring the boat in, but the power of the current, striking obliquely against her, shoots her out into the middle of the river.

  19. Paris, who assassinated Pelletier, is arrested, but shoots himself.

  20. Lidon, a member of the convention, shoots himself.

  21. Thou shalt abandon everything beloved Most tenderly, and this the arrow is Which first the bow of banishment shoots forth.

  22. Nor only the created things that are Without intelligence this bow shoots forth, But those that have both intellect and love.

  23. For whatsoever thing this bow shoots forth Falls foreordained unto an end foreseen, Even as a shaft directed to its mark.

  24. Then with the doctrine and the will together, With office apostolical he moved, Like torrent which some lofty vein out-presses; And in among the shoots heretical His impetus with greater fury smote, Wherever the resistance was the greatest.

  25. Our friars brought some shoots of the clove in a pot for transplanting.

  26. Some grapevine shoots have been brought from China, which after being transplanted in these islands have become good vines.

  27. Two shoots took root in the village of Mahayhay and produced fruit, and the cloves were as good as those of Therrenate.

  28. This is a very handsome species, subsisting on vegetable diet; and very injurious to the plantations of young cocoa trees, of the shoots of which it is very fond.

  29. Of this there is a tame and wild species--the latter an inhabitant of forests, living rather upon the shoots of trees than upon grass.

  30. With these they are enabled to masticate their food, which consists of the leaves and tender shoots of trees.

  31. It shoots up generally in a vertical direction, as a radiation from our globe.

  32. Grazing animals feed almost entirely on tender shoots or leaves, blades of grass, and other herbage.

  33. For the lion or tiger eats the deer which feeds upon grass or green shoots of young trees, or the cat eats the bird that lives on weed seeds.

  34. It was so still, she could hear the faint sob made by some deadly thing slipping from her coming into the water, over which a wandering firefly would flash, revealing an inky glimmer between the rising shoots of corn.

  35. And this winter it was harder than ever, for the unusual cold made her fingers stiff, and sent shoots of rheumatism up her arm as she sat spinning in the ray of light which came in with the smell.

  36. Food failed the fleeing foe, and the young shoots of trees for food and the larger shoots of the artillery between meals were too much for that proud army, once so strong and confident.

  37. Hence with those loves which profit only measures, I hate that heart which only shoots at treasures.

  38. The saints' monopoly, the zealous cluster Which like a porcupine presents a muster And shoots his quills at bishops and their sees, A devout litter of young Maccabees!

  39. I never said anything so pretty; and, after all, I don't know that the grand roses will be equal to these purple shoots and blushing buds with long whiskers.

  40. I tell you these are the young fresh green shoots of spring"--suddenly changing his pronunciation as he became interested in his subject and forgot the shafts of irritation shot at him by his wife.

  41. One heavy bough had broken away from the nails and list, and drooped to the ground, and the shoots of last year, not having been trimmed, thrust themselves forward presumptuously.

  42. The young shoots are readily eaten by stock.

  43. If all the shoots are barren, the grass is a biennial in its first year of growth: if all have flowering stems in them, but show traces of old leaf-bases of the previous year, then the grass is a biennial in its second year.

  44. Owing to the leaves not being always strictly conduplicate in the first year, the flat shoots may not sharply mark it off from L.

  45. If they remain intra-vaginal during further growth, the shoots are forced upwards and only tufts (Fig.

  46. Section of sheathed leaves elliptical, owing to the shoots being compressed.

  47. The ligule and flat shoots with closed sheaths alone suffice to distinguish it from the round and split sheathed Arundo Phragmites; and the round shoots of Digraphis, its split sheath and firm leaves, suffice to distinguish it.

  48. The chronometers have been shooting the shoots of the pack for weeks.

  49. We seem to be right in their path and may be able to get one of them as he shoots across our bow," added Cleary as he took another telephone report from the wireless room.

  50. We'll drop this chap just as he shoots across our bow," declared the Dewey's commander.

  51. On all last year's shoots of honeysuckle there were little leaves; the first strawberries were in flower, and the first lilies of the valley.

  52. With his stick he pointed out to Jean the pine buds, red like arbutus berries; the bursting bark on the beech trunks, the shoots of wild strawberries running along the stones.


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