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Example sentences for "grew more"

  • Nevertheless, I felt listless and weary, but I looked upon that as the inevitable consequence of so complete a change of life, and thought it would disappear when I grew more accustomed to goodness.

  • I wanted to instruct the fair Marcoline, with whom I grew more in love every day.

  • He grew more excited, and they applauded him.

  • He did not admire her the less now he had discovered that the poise was not so adjusted as he had thought it, but his feeling about her changed, grew more personal, more complicated.

  • Lionel was perfectly astounded, and each moment he grew more confused, hardly knowing whether to be amused, or to think that he was in some other part of the world.

  • Good," Vlaye answered cheerfully--he grew more at his ease with every word.

  • But the noise of riot and disorder did not slacken, rather it grew more menacing; and what was she to do?

  • As the time drew near for Felicita to act upon his message to her, he grew more desponding of her response to it; yet he could not give up the feeble hope still flickering in his heart.

  • As he drew nearer the end he grew more eager to reach it.

  • The necessity of forming some definite plan for her future life became every day a more pressing obligation, whilst every day the needful exertion grew more painful to her.

  • Then, as he grew more comfortable, he began to think that perhaps, after all, the young man had not run off.

  • As I lay there listening to the different sounds made in the village dropping off one by one in the darkness, I grew more elate.

  • It grew more distinct, until it appeared to me that I harked to the breathings of some great sea.

  • They shone wanly, and, even as I watched, grew more unreal, and so vanished.

  • Gradually, I grew more collected, while the world slipped across the centuries into the future.

  • It grew more severe, and forced, literally forced, my attention.

  • I grew more certain, day after day, that it was merely a scheme for getting money.

  • We all grew more irritable as we grew more tired, and I got an awful wigging about every two minutes.

  • He grew more interesting as he got into the night, and the more interesting he grew the nearer his nose sank towards his glass resting always on the table.

  • That appeared plausible to Fresno and he grew more thoughtful.

  • Bill Horn did not think much of the men who had accepted the chance he offered them, and daily he grew more aloof.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot bear; cannot but; contrary winds; eating house; equal rights; grew angry; grew dark; grew more; grew more and more; grew older; grew pale; grew very; grew weary; like unto; neither should; pity thee; pretty hard; take counsel; three judges; took train; trout fishing; two ways; upon the; white men; wild fowl; years afterward