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Example sentences for "found growing"

  • In many localities, it is found growing in spontaneous abundance; and one of the best and most healthful of salads may be obtained for the mere labor of gathering.

  • In its wild or natural state, as found growing on the mountains of Mexico or South America, the tubers rarely exceed an inch in diameter, and are comparatively unpalatable.

  • It is found growing abundantly on stumps of trees, appearing both in spring and autumn.

  • Engelmann refers to this grape which he says he found growing in the botanic garden of Berlin under the name of Vitis solonis.

  • This species is found growing in the limestone hills of southwestern Texas, covering about the same area as Berlandieri.

  • The first of these varieties was, according to Bartram, found growing in the vicinity of Philadelphia on the hills bordering the Schuylkill River in the neighborhood of an old vineyard of European grapes.

  • Found growing in the garden of James Camaks, about 1847.

  • The catkins of this plant are described as being of a yellowish colour; and it is stated to be found growing in divers woody, mountainous places of Germany, where they call it Wald Seuenbaum, or Wilde Savine.

  • The name Apple of Sodom is also given to a kind of Gall-nut, which is found growing on various species of dwarf Oaks on the banks of the Jordan.

  • She knew and would reveal where Yarrow was to be found growing on a dead man's grave, and would teach country wenches the charmed verse to be repeated when the magic plant should be placed beneath their pillow.

  • His Holiness remarks that he had been unable to obtain any proof of this wondrous tree existing in Scotland, but that it was to be found growing in the Orkney Isles.

  • Some very fine specimens that were found growing in a well marked ring, in an old orchard, were brought to me about the first of May.

  • Ramealis means a branch or stick; so called because the plant is found growing on sticks, in open woods.

  • It is found growing on leaves in mixed woods, after a rain, in August and September.

  • It is found growing on twigs and fallen leaves, in the woods.

  • The black Currant is found growing wild in England, for the most part by the edges of brooks, and in moist grounds, from mid-Scotland southwards.

  • This plant is found growing in dry pastures, especially on a chalky or limestone soil, but it is not common; it has very narrow leaves, and tufts of lilac flowers.

  • The Greek Valerian is another British species, found growing occasionally in the North of England and in Scotland, being known as the blue Jacob's Ladder.

  • Nature appears to have had the better fortune, thus far, for our best varieties are chance seedlings, found growing wild.

  • The Catawissa, found growing in a Pennsylvania graveyard, is another berry of this class, which produces a second crop in autumn.

  • Some years ago, this variety of Fig was to be found growing in large numbers at Makawao, and in the Kula district of Maui.

  • Specimens of this tree are to be found growing in the grounds of the Queen's Hospital and at the Government Nursery, Honolulu.

  • They have become naturalized in Hawaii, and may be found growing wild on waste lands and by the roadside.

  • Grafted and budded trees of this variety of orange may be found growing in many localities in the Hawaiian Islands, but the fruit is not as fine as it should be, as, with few exceptions, it has a tendency to become very dry and woody.

  • Owing to its long tap root it resists drought well, and is to be found growing well in rocky land such as is common in many of the carob areas of Cyprus.

  • This plant is gradually becoming known and may be found growing on some of the more progressive farms.

  • This is one of those species of the Fig family which are generally found growing on the branches or trunks of other trees, though their own roots crawl down the trunk of the support to the ground.

  • But if the place has been long neglected, Hawthorns and Rowans, Birch and Ash will be found growing up.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "found growing" 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:
    external soul; found again; found both; found breeding; found elsewhere; found from; found growing; found her; found him; found many; found more; found near; found necessary; found themselves; found there; found time; found under; found very; found wild; greenish white; hill and; literal translation; our feet; pump water; tenant right; watched her