Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "grew very"

  • A week or so before I had looked with impatience for this meeting, and now I grew very faint-hearted as the moment drew nigh.

  • He grew very red, took a step back from her, staring at her distrustfully, incredulously.

  • He had flushed, but now the colour left his small face, and he grew very white.

  • Pretty decorations, Ray," said Richard; but he grew very red.

  • After he had followed the trail for a great distance he grew very tired, and sat upon the branch of a tree to rest.

  • When the wolverine, who was very particular about his clothes, came to put it on, he grew very angry.

  • When the young man heard his mother speak thus, he grew very angry, and said to her, 'What do I want with the king's money?

  • Then I grew very anxious as to how I should get down again to earth.

  • Gunnar lay a very long while, and threw off his shield from him, and he grew very warm.

  • Hrut stayed with the king that winter in good cheer, but when spring came he grew very silent.

  • Now we must go back and say that Gunnar rides east over Thurso water, but when he had gone a little way from the river he grew very drowsy, and bade them lie down and rest there.

  • So it grew very dark; and a dog began to yelp in the house.

  • As Diamond went on singing, it grew very dark, and just as he ceased there came a great flash of lightning, that blinded us all for a moment.

  • If he turned round, it grew very sharp on his legs especially, and so he thought the wind might really be Lady North Wind, though he could not see her, and he had better let her blow him wherever she pleased.

  • Gunnar lay, a very long while, and threw off his shield from him, and he grew very warm.

  • The face of Vassia Kazán grew very pale, but very cold.

  • As he took it and bowed over it he grew very pale.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grew very" 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:
    baptize thee; black woman; but once; clearly defined; dear maid; felt quite; general government; glacial action; good paper; grew angry; grew dark; grew more; grew more and more; grew older; grew pale; grew very; grew weary; last come; long reign; organic whole; power plant; sell them; small letters; smaller size; social rank; would become