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Example sentences for "outgrew"

Lexicographically close words:
outgo; outgoes; outgoing; outgoings; outgone; outgrow; outgrowing; outgrown; outgrows; outgrowth
  1. Legal minds outgrew the idea of vicarious punishment long ago.

  2. Christ was a thinker, a man of progress, an infidel, a man who outgrew the Church of his time; and the Church of his time crucified him.

  3. The Egyptian children still startle at the name of "Bonaparte;" the American children at the name of Thomas Paine; and Mr. Parker never outgrew this superstition of his youth.

  4. Mr. Paine frequently takes the pains to tell us how he outgrew his local prejudices, and how he at last considered the "world his country.

  5. The insignificance of a senseless word like duke, count, or earl, has ceased to please, and as they outgrew the rickets, have despised the rattle.

  6. And that it never outgrew the foundation of the popular faith is connected with its whole conception of nature and especially with its conception of the universe.

  7. But it never outgrew that supernaturalist view which was the foundation of the popular faith.

  8. Ancient thought outgrew the ancient popular faith; that is beyond doubt.

  9. Prue's class outgrew the parlor, spread to the dining-room, and trickled into the kitchen.

  10. He outgrew the sect, but never quite outgrew the education it had given him and the ideas it had instilled.

  11. He drove his four horses; he made money like everything; he outgrew Brattleborough, which was his native place, and soon got above peddling, his native business.

  12. He looked upon this alliance with bitterness and anger almost to the very day of his wedding, and never outgrew the bitter belief that his father had thus destroyed his emotional life.

  13. So far as is known, he never used any stock for hickories other than pecan, which grew well, made good unions and generally outgrew the scions.

  14. Some of them showed no indications of blight; others were damaged but outgrew the injury; and a few trees were weakened and died.

  15. Strange sights have these splendid old windows gazed down upon, but never have they tempered the glare of the sun for the christening of a babe who so widely outgrew the place of his birth.

  16. Many writers outgrew the tendency to use the verse form, but some never outgrew it.

  17. Andrew Jackson Davis began as a medium of Swedenborg, receiving from him his commission and inspiration, and became an independent seer and revelator, only because, as a son, he outgrew his father.

  18. But when his work at New Lanark became famous, and he rose to companionship with dukes and kings, he outgrew the modesty and practical wisdom of his early life, and undertook the task of Universal Reform.

  19. She outgrew Maria's school, and attended the Normal School in Westbridge.

  20. Maria herself outgrew her little Amity school, and obtained a position as teacher in one of the departments of the Normal School, and still Ida had not returned.

  21. But he outgrew these limitations as he outgrew his kilts: more room must be provided for his bounding spirits and expanding ambition.

  22. As for religion, I suppose girls who do Kensington work will use it for decorative purposes for some time to come, but thinking people long ago outgrew such folly.

  23. She was only a peasant; and though I was honest enough then, I outgrew that fever centuries ago.

  24. First Frank, the lad, outgrew the country schools, just as he outgrew his clothes.

  25. When the lending of books outgrew deposit stations, branch libraries were the natural result.

  26. So many facts presented themselves that the pamphlet soon outgrew our original conception of it, becoming much larger than was originally intended.

  27. I leave you to think this out; adding but this for a suggestion: that as the Hebrew outgrew his primitive tribal beliefs, so the bettering mind of man casts off the old clouts of primitive doctrine, he being in fact better than his religion.

  28. They talk and write about it; how the poor deceased thing outgrew infantile ailments, how it was operated on for umlaut, how it parted with its vermiform appendix and its inflexions one by one, and lost its vowel endings in muted e's.


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