sown

Example Sentences

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We have trained sloth and docility and are reaping what we have sown.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

In the meantime, the legal seesawing has sown uncertainty over the pill that the US Food and Drug Administration approved more than a quarter-century ago.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

This time the divisions were sown by hate speech reforms introduced by the centre-left Labor government after the Bondi Beach attack.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

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 • Nov. 29, 2025

If this is your reaction, you are a victim of the confusion sown by the sticklers.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker