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Example sentences for "sprout"

Lexicographically close words:
spritsail; sprocket; sprockets; sprong; sproong; sprouted; sprouting; sprouts; spruce; spruced
  1. Would she but treat us poets so, So from our winter free us, And set our slow old sap aflow To sprout in fresh ideas!

  2. But a-talking here have made me sprout a idea: 'Liza Pike have blazed the trail for us, bless her little heart!

  3. But he mighty soon begun to sprout little pleasing ways, a-looking up under them black lashes and a-laughing acrost my breast.

  4. The little raven have actually begun to sprout cupid wings," she said to herself as she went around the corner of the house toward the Doctor's office.

  5. Sprout the tubers in a hot-bed or cold-frame in February and break off the shoots and plant as soon as you are out of danger by frost.

  6. I have tried a few, now three years old, and the trees are doing nicely so far, but the roots sprout up where cut.

  7. The potatoes, kept moist at this temperature, sprout promptly and will be ready to transplant in about six weeks.

  8. On behalf of the piece-root trees it is claimed they sprout up less around the tree.

  9. The trees will sprout later, after they have developed latent buds into active form.

  10. Some one has told me that this would merely cause the little branch to sprout again.

  11. Others will sprout in spite of all medicinal insertions we know of when these are placed in the inner wood of the stump.

  12. If your potatoes ripen in July and you allow those which you desire for seed to lie upon the ground and become somewhat greenish, they are likely to sprout well for a second crop.

  13. I am informed that if I can raise them from slips they will not sprout up from the root.

  14. Much more a youth whose fancies sprout as rank As toadstool-clump from melon-bed.

  15. Twas a stump then; a stump it still must be: While forward saplings, at the outset cheeked, In virtue of that first sprout keep their style Amid the forest's green fraternity.

  16. I back your first against this second sprout Of observation, insight, what you please.

  17. Who could ever believe that a seed dipped and dried twenty-one times in the juice of a species of cactus would sprout and flower and fruit all in the space of an hour?

  18. In the meantime, I little knew that Satya, in another corner, had, in the space of an hour, caused to root and sprout a mystical plant of his own creation.

  19. My feeling towards them was that same eager curiosity with which I regarded the ungerminated sprout within the seed, or the undiscovered mystery under the dust covering of the earth.

  20. Brussels sprout between each, which contrast is exceedingly inviting, simple, and pretty.

  21. If his shroud were but a cloud To weep itself away; Or were he buried underground To sprout some day!

  22. A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.

  23. To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane of the previous year's planting.

  24. This at first is no bigger than the top of one's finger, but increaseth daily, sucking up the Water till it is grown so big as to fill up the Cavity of the Coconut, and then it begins to sprout forth.

  25. Before they thus sprout out, there is a small spungy round knob grows in the inside, which we call an Apple.

  26. You may let these teeming Nuts sprout out a foot and half, or two foot high before you plant them, for they will grow a great while like an Onion out of their own Substance.

  27. In the midst of blocks of houses sprout up the chimneys of furnaces and mining works, the clang of machinery fills the air, which is thick with clouds of dust.

  28. What I have always thought very extraordinary; nuts and shells, which we can hardly crack with our teeth, divide and make way for the little tender sprout which proceeds from the kernel.

  29. The rest consists of a nutritious substance, from which the sprout draws its aliment for some considerable time after it is put forth; viz.

  30. So, after you have planted a little seed in the mind of the mercenary Magdalene which may in time sprout and grow, pass on, and find those who have gone wrong from other causes, and who are longing for a hand to lead them right.

  31. Will the boy never have done crying for lack of that little sprout of a Roundhead?

  32. Said I not, he holdeth, as yet, but the dead letter--but the seed which is sown shall one day sprout and quicken?

  33. When we fall out of the cradle, we almost fall into the grave, so to speak, and unless we are either very bad or very good, we're forgotten before the grass commences to sprout above us.

  34. There is a future for the tree, And hope remaineth to the palm; Cut down, it will sprout again, And its tender branch will not cease.

  35. XXII For affliction springeth not out of the dust, Nor doth sorrow sprout up from the ground;-- For man is born unto trouble, Even as the sparks fly upward.

  36. CXXIV For there is a future for the tree, And hope remaineth to the palm: Cut down, it will sprout again, And its tender branch will not cease.

  37. If the bulbs become frosted, heated, or sweated in storage they will sprout before planting time and be greatly injured for seed purposes.

  38. Yellow blossoming sage, and mint, and lavender, and mignonette, sprout in the crevices where snakes and lizards harbour.

  39. Asphodels sprout upon the plinth decayed Of these low columns, and the snake hath found Her haunt 'neath altar-steps with weeds o'erlaid.

  40. I grew fast, and I admit that I was always tired; and who is more weary than a sprout of a boy?

  41. His horse shied and the apple tree sprout whistled in the air.

  42. Unfortunately I haven't an apple tree sprout with me to-day, Mr. Etheredge.

  43. On the moon-birth of the Rice-Sprout month my sister died after giving birth to a child.

  44. Towards the moon-hidden days [last days] of the Rice-Sprout month I went for a certain reason to a temple at Higashiyama.

  45. Once in the Rice-Sprout month, when I was up late reading a romance, I heard a cat mewing with a long-drawn-out cry.

  46. Since we have the soil, such a fertile soil, the great harvest which is awaited will surely some day sprout and ripen under the burning sun!

  47. The population had increased to five hundred thousand, and then seemingly remained stationary; nevertheless, new districts continued to sprout up more thickly than ever.

  48. We'll plant him in the sod like a seed in order that he may sprout and grow into a winged blossom.

  49. Thou wise and gentle Buddha, who sitst waiting there to see a heaven sprout from this earth, endow us with patience in the hour of trial, and with purity of will, so that thy hope be not put to shame!

  50. Look up whether it does not sprout out or whether it is stuck in.

  51. Just as in that verse the sprout was prophesied of as growing up to be fruitbearing, so here the lowly sucker shoots to a height which makes it conspicuous from afar, and becomes, like some tall mast, a sign for the nations.

  52. Commonly, however, this journey is brief, and usually after one short fall or flight the seed comes to rest where it will sprout or perish.

  53. This nut may have been carried a few miles or a few hundred before it went ashore on the bank of the river or landed upon some romantic island to sprout and grow.

  54. They were the greater part of them very small, many being not taller than the sprout of three moons; but there were others, whose stature arose to the height of a full-grown person.

  55. His days were but those of a young eagle; yet the bravest, even those who had watched the nut-tree from its sprout to its bloom, ranged themselves in battle under his faultless command, in the chase followed the ken of his eagle eye.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sprout" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adventurer; beginning; blossom; bough; branch; brew; bud; develop; filiation; flagellum; flourish; fork; frond; gather; germinate; grow; hypertrophy; increase; leaf; leave; limb; luxuriate; mature; mushroom; offset; offshoot; outgrow; overgrow; overrun; parvenu; procreate; ramification; reproduce; riot; root; runner; sapling; scion; seedling; shoot; slip; spear; spray; sprig; spring; sprout; stem; sucker; switch; tendril; thrive; tower; twig; upstart; vegetate; wax