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sown

[sohn] / soʊn /


ADJECTIVE
planted
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


Example Sentences

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The middle-aged person consolidates his gains and harvests what he’s sown.

From The Wall Street Journal

A special mix of seeds from the MSB are being sown to help restore the rare chalk grasslands there.

From BBC

Yet so much of the media coverage around Kennedy, especially lately, has focused more on his personality and lurid life history rather than the chaos and destruction he has sown.

From Salon

Those sown in August are currently just tiny blue-green shoots.

From Los Angeles Times

The spread to Chile of organized crime gangs originating in Venezuela, Peru and other countries has sown terror among the population, causing a lurch to the right.

From Barron's