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

Moreover, Bernstein says, the disruption to the traditional eyewear market will be irreversible, as new suppliers sprout to feed tech’s demand for glasses hardware.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

The audience must connect the dots, but I think he’s mourning our country’s crumbled civic and cultural infrastructure while encouraging artists to be the weeds that sprout from the cracks.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

He'd finally given up trying to impress Zoe and Bianca with his pipe music after he played “Poison Ivy” and caused that very stuff to sprout from their Lexus’s air conditioner.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan