fructify

Example Sentences

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“Money,” Cowperthwaite said, should be left “to fructify in the pockets of taxpayers”.

From Economist • Oct. 5, 2017

“We’re just starting to see that interest in the sport beginning to fructify now … this fight is bankable,” Nelson said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2017

It will be interesting to see the many wonders which will fructify from the works of these two modern "brothers" in Christ.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was the old Gladstonian expression, 'Let the money fructify in the pockets of the people.'

From Time Magazine Archive

The son of Britain rose and proudly remarked: "England—the sun whose beams enlighten and fructify the remotest corners of the earth."

From Dinners and Luncheons Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions by Pierce, Paul