MUSHROOM in a Sentence

Learn MUSHROOM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

35 example sentences for MUSHROOM, such as:

1. Some mushrooms contain a deadly poison.
2. Remove the mushrooms and set them aside.
3. He was annoyed that she had spoken about the mushrooms.
4. New housing developments mushroomed on the edge of town.
5. The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima is a horrific image of war.

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 Meanings and Examples of MUSHROOM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mushroom
 v.  multiply, grow, or expand rapidly
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  'Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar
2  Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar
3  You would be no longer a lost child found, but you would be looked upon as an upstart, who had sprung up like a mushroom in the night.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 56. Andrea Cavalcanti.
4  But the old man bent down every time he came across a mushroom, picked it up and put it in his bosom.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
5  They gathered a whole basketful of mushrooms; even Lily found a birch mushroom.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 8
6  Varenka, who had just crouched down to pick a mushroom, rose with a supple movement and looked round.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 4
7  They were regular alchemists at Durham's; they advertised a mushroom-catsup, and the men who made it did not know what a mushroom looked like.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
8  Till she came to the clearing, at the end of the wood, and saw the green-stained stone cottage, looking almost rosy, like the flesh underneath a mushroom, its stone warmed in a burst of sun.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
9  Early in June it happened that Agafea Mihalovna, the old nurse and housekeeper, in carrying to the cellar a jar of mushrooms she had just pickled, slipped, fell, and sprained her wrist.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
10  Among the trees they were continually cutting with their scythes the so-called "birch mushrooms," swollen fat in the succulent grass.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
11  Sergey Ivanovitch, who was looked up to by all the party for his intellect and learning, with a respect that almost amounted to awe, surprised everyone by joining in the conversation about mushrooms.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 1
12  Kneeling down, with her hands over the mushrooms to guard them from Grisha, she was calling little Masha.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 5
13  After a silence it would have been easier for them to say what they wanted to say than after talking about mushrooms.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 5
14  He was annoyed that she had spoken about the mushrooms.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 5
15  Chichikov looked up, and saw that the table was spread with mushrooms, pies, and other viands.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  Between 1990 and 1999, the population of Silicon Valley kept to mushroom; with the rapidly increasing demand for housing, home prices skyrocketed as well.
2  Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went.
3  Their method can more than double the yield of certain mushroom species compared with conventional cultivation methods.
4  The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima is a horrific image of war.
5  The mushroom development of technology will pave the way for improving our economy.
6  Some mushrooms contain a deadly poison.
7  Some mushrooms are good to eat; some are poisonous.
8  Remove the mushrooms and set them aside.
9  Before I read this book I knew nothing about wild mushrooms, how they live in symbiosis with trees.
10  New housing developments mushroomed on the edge of town.
11  The media training industry has mushroomed over the past decade.
12  The call lasted just 40 seconds, according to police, but is significant primarily for what followed, as a tawdry tale of personal foibles mushroomed into a massive scandal that could bring down a mayor.