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Example sentences for "she grew"

  • It was natural that Beth as she grew up should be attracted by the mystery that surrounded the Roman Catholics, and anxious to comprehend the horror that Protestants had of them.

  • If she grew tired, she went and looked at him, and all her thoughts were holy prayers for him.

  • She grew so faint that her hold of him relaxed.

  • She grew self-absorbed; she scarcely lifted her eyes.

  • She grew, indeed, to have a mysterious feeling that to her the Rev.

  • The suggestion was an entirely new one to Ann; she grew wide-eyed over it.

  • He loosened the hot thing in which she was wrapped, and sat with her hand in his; if she grew feverish he would know it.

  • The clannish pride that lay in every Penniman lay in her also, and yet, Ann had felt, vaguely as a child and poignantly as she grew older, that she was of them and yet not of them.

  • She grew worse, and went to London for advice.

  • Violet's remarks and misunderstanding were useful, and as she grew bolder, her criticisms were often much to the point.

  • She grew used to being held in Joe's arms, to his kisses and to his voice that had changed, to the things he said and the way his eyes looked into hers.

  • For as she grew used to this mothering, the old adventurous hunger for life welled up again within her.

  • She grew to know which ones tempted him most.

  • Lacking it, she grew dim, just as the floating wick in her little blue vase before the Madonna grew dim when the oil was gone.

  • Silvia they called her, and, since she was surely to be a nun, she grew to be called Sister Silvia by everybody, even before she was old enough to recognize her own name.

  • As she wept and heard unconsciously the nightingales, she grew conscious of another song that mingled with theirs.

  • When she had possessed us a brief year, she grew weary of us, and passed on to other amusements.

  • And as she grew up she had plenty of suitors, and her parents wished her to go out sometimes to grand balls and parties, so that she was much admired and followed.

  • For, strange to say, she seemed to grow younger in some things, as she grew older in years, and when she was fifteen or sixteen, she looked more of a child than she did when she was really little.

  • She grew a little more impudent than ever and her pout began to take the form of a sneer.

  • She grew weary of writing checks and putting on costumes for bazaars, spectacles, parades, and carnivals.

  • She grew so lonely for some one to talk to that she decided to call on old Mrs. Jambers at the boarding-house.

  • She grew so desperate at last that she made a cowardly escape: "I think we old people owe it to you youngsters to leave you alone.

  • She grew firmer as she gained in knowledge.

  • She grew anxious, she wanted to find out the reason, and finally found some explanation or excuse for him that coincided with her fancies.

  • She grew a shade paler and stared at him for a moment as if startled; then slowly, she obeyed him, and stood facing the witness, who brought reluctantly his anxious gaze to bear upon her.

  • She grew to know them by name, and would talk to some of them, asking timid questions, partly with an instinctive desire to get away from her own thoughts, partly with the feeling that they were human beings, in trouble like herself.

  • Instead of making her mother and sisters happy with her pretty playful ways, and making herself useful and pleasant at home, she grew pettish.

  • As for Betty, she grew to be a very modest, useful hen, with no pride or conceit about her.

  • She grew tired of being shut up though she was well fed.

  • As she grew up, the bright parts of her character shone with increased lustre; but, in spite of the exertions of her instructor, some less admirable qualities had not yet disappeared.

  • Her repellent behaviour to her admirers, and her occasional excitement and oddity, caused her mother some anxiety, but as the season came to a close, she grew gayer, and was at times absolutely bewitching.

  • She grew cold as the dead, and shuddered and shivered.

  • As I told you, she grew beautiful, and what sign of life is equal to that!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    proper size; she and; she began; she concluded; she cried; she did not know; she don; she faltered; she had; she had always been; she had never known; she heard; she knew; she now; she passed; she said; she shall; she went; shed tears; sheet iron; shell hole; shell thin; shew himself; shew them; that his; the garden