vegetate

Example Sentences

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He used to come home from a hard practice and vegetate on the couch, shattered by exhaustion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025

A long-distance lorry driver, he said he had no option but to pay privately or "sit and do nothing, vegetate and slow up".

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2023

Made up of local efforts across 11 countries, it has reached just 16% of its overall goal to vegetate 150 million hectares.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 11, 2021

Birds arrive and leave droppings that help vegetate the future dunes.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2011

But after a while he became convinced that if he was ever going to do anything in Milagro besides vegetate and play the fool, he needed mobility.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols