Example Sentences

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A Party That’s Outgrown Its Park Strangely enough, the Friends of the High Line benefit did not take place on the High Line, but at the semi-abandoned Pier 57 across the street.

From New York Times • May 15, 2013

Poor rabble, who have yet Outgrown so little the green grasshoppers From whom they boast descent, are they to blame?

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius

Outgrown them not because the wages were too high but because their wants were too low; were only wants of the body, wants of the barrenest unculture; the inelastic wants.

From The Amateur Garden by Cable, George Washington

Outgrown adult thinking in social matters is no more suitable to children than outgrown thinking on physical facts.

From Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem

Outgrown it all—sickness, pain, disappointments, a long, weary life—all at a single leap.

From Observations of a Retired Veteran by Tinsley, Henry C.