sprout

Example Sentences

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Potato flatbread with spruce sprout pesto and pickled white currant.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

"Some branches would die off, and others would sprout up," he said.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

Once they sprout, its tall and graceful characteristics are very conspicuous and catch people’s eye, said David Campbell, an expert on mushroom consumption or a mycophagist.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026

Only much later would I realize that it wasn’t so much a smorgasbord of vendors as it was the Gorgon Medusa: When one head is removed, more sprout in its place.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2026

Mom and I waited for it to grow while the Korean Fire, our survivor flower, blossomed around it—but that iris seed refused to sprout.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller