beanstalk
Example Sentences
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Every day he was sprouting like a beanstalk.
From Literature
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Perhaps a beanstalk will grow to the clouds and an adventure with giants will ensue.
From Literature
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Recovered memory cases had been “sprouting up like beanstalks,” but “once the reversal happened, everyone reanalyzed it,” Franklin’s attorney said.
From Los Angeles Times
Unfortunately, aiming a magical beanstalk wasn’t the easiest thing in the world to do.
From Literature
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Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, has likened surging productivity to “magic beanstalk beans for the economy. … You can have faster income increases, faster wage growth, faster GDP without generating inflation.’
From Seattle Times
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