sprout

Example Sentences

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Others have flocked to civil-defense groups, which have sprouted up in cities around Taiwan in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal

He grows cauliflowers, broccoli, leeks and brussel sprouts around Comber in County Down.

From BBC

I was a child of fourteen, while he and Willem were already university men, sprouting straggly beards and breathing out cigar smoke with their conversation.

From Literature

Posters and murals featuring his beatific brown face sprouted across Mexican American communities.

From Los Angeles Times

“She taught to the thwack of the hickory sprout,” Preacher Parr remembered.

From Literature