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Example sentences for "sprouted"

Lexicographically close words:
sprocket; sprockets; sprong; sproong; sprout; sprouting; sprouts; spruce; spruced; spruces
  1. This field of winter rye, which sprouted late in the fall, and now speedily dissolves the snow, is where the fire is very thinly covered.

  2. I have frequently found that in November almost every acorn left on the ground had sprouted or decayed.

  3. Flanked by the jungle growth which sprouted thickly from each bank, a gray, ghostly shape in the shadows lying over the water, he sped through the dying afternoon.

  4. He saw the human race wither and fall like leaves from the tree; he saw new men come to fill their places, but the leaves that fell off never sprouted forth again; they crumbled to dust or were absorbed into other plants.

  5. It is not one of the roses which sprouted forth from the blood-stained fame of Winkelreid.

  6. At last, however, the spring came, and the sun shone warm again, and then two little green leaves sprouted forth in the pot.

  7. One shoot after another sprouted forth, and little white buds blossomed, which the poor girl fondly kissed.

  8. It would have added a storey, or sprouted a wing.

  9. Tobacco seeds are sprouted in beds similar to those used for the rice, and the same magical device is used to insure a lusty growth.

  10. At the beginning of the rainy season, some of the seed rice is sprouted in specially prepared beds in the villages.

  11. Some gardeners moved about, binding up the riotous vegetation that had sprouted overnight under the moist breath of the sirocco.

  12. Towers and battlements crumbled to earth; roadways heaved uneasily with grassy tufts that sprouted in the chinks of the old paving-blocks.

  13. Seeds found in Wilde-Fowls Gizards have sprouted in the earth.

  14. In Acorns the nebb dilating splitteth the two sides, which sometimes lye whole, when the Oak is sprouted two handfuls.

  15. The other tree lost most of its younger wood, but some buds near the base of last season's growth have sprouted out to make a new top.

  16. One Japanese walnut died back to the ground and has sprouted from the roots.

  17. Our four Persian walnut trees were killed back to the ground; three of them have sprouted this summer from the roots.

  18. Yet his plump, healthy-looking cheeks were so robustly constituted, and contained such an abundance of recreative vigour, that a new whisker soon sprouted in place of the old one, and even surpassed its predecessor.

  19. The sand-sprouted potatoes took the lead from the start in vigor and strength of top and produced potatoes the first of June, a week earlier than the storage-cellar potatoes.

  20. The tubers started in the open boxes gave earlier yields than were obtained from the storage-cellar tubers, but not as early as the tubers sprouted in moist sand.

  21. The tubers sprouted in moist sand produced table potatoes from 7 to 10 days earlier than the storage-cellar seed.

  22. By planting only well-sprouted seed, a full stand is assured.

  23. The percentage of large tubers was also greater at each digging with the sprouted tubers.

  24. When planted in the field they outstripped both the tubers sprouted in open boxes and the storage-cellar tubers in vigor of growth.

  25. In spite of all precautions the tubers sometimes sprout; but when practicable only potatoes that have not sprouted should be selected for planting.

  26. These bright objects sprouted higher and proved to be the steel heads of spears.

  27. And there was the end of the army that had sprouted from the dragon's teeth.

  28. Of course, with that name, his family tree sprouted in Massachusetts; but he has been in Germany and Italy for years.

  29. It lit on spots far from the threatening advance and sprouted overnight into great clumps of devilgrass.

  30. For this I produced the Metamorphizer--to make not two blades of grass grow where one sprouted before, but whole fields flourish where only rocks and sandpiles lay.

  31. His corn quickly sprouted after this attempt and outstripped the weeds and vines which Robinson constantly had to hold in check by pulling and hoeing.

  32. But the weeds, shrubs, and vines sprouted as quickly, and before Robinson was aware, his corn was overgrown and choked out by a rank growth of weeds and vines.

  33. Thence had come all the vast schemes such as the cyclopean quays and the mere ministries struggling to outvie the Colosseum; and thence had come all the new districts of gigantic houses which had sprouted like towns around the ancient city.

  34. Most certainly there was no lack of compassionate hearts in that grievous city of Paris; charitable foundations sprouted forth there like green leaves at the first warmth of springtide.

  35. He fished it out and discovered that it had sprouted six rudimentary legs.

  36. At that very moment the blurring again attacked his sight, and, while he was guarding against that, his forehead sprouted out into a galaxy of new eyes.

  37. It was rooted in the island; it sprouted out of the island; it belonged, although he fetched Hopkins out from New York to plan it.

  38. The peanut never sprouted that can best me.

  39. Out of the soil of New England he sprang--in a crevice of that immitigable granite he sprouted and bloomed.

  40. Night set its leaden seal upon the plans made by the sometime attorney of Mantes, and a formidable scheme sprouted up, a flourishing scheme, fertile in harvests of gain and intrigue.

  41. Cibot had begun to cherish a hope that her name might be mentioned in "her gentlemen's" wills; she had redoubled her zeal since that covetous thought tardily sprouted up in the midst of that so honest moustache.

  42. I may mention a peculiar characteristic of this year, if we take into consideration the wetness of the season; which is, that scarcely a sprouted ear of corn is to be found any where, notwithstanding that the crop was laid in many instances.

  43. As to the colour of all sorts of grain, it is much brighter than the farmers had anticipated, and there is no sprouted grain this year.


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