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

"There has been no work of this importance published in the last thirty years, and it is possible and permissible to hope that some ideas sketched in it will fructify in the future."

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)