SEED in a Sentence

Learn SEED 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.

125 example sentences for SEED, such as:

1. Sow the seeds in late March.
2. Sow the seeds outdoors in spring.
3. The seeds will sprout in a few days.
4. Sow the seeds one inch deep in the soil.
5. She would plant one seed in the blank wall.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
seed
 n.  a small, usually hard part of a plant from which a new plant can grow
 v.  anything that provides inspiration for later work
Classic Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
1  He wanted to get the feeling of it into his hand, so that it would sleep there like a seed in winter.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  The sight of Tom Slattery dawdling on his neighbors' porches, begging cotton seed for planting or a side of bacon to "tide him over," was a familiar one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Corn and cotton seed for next spring's planting, and new clothes too.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  Spring plowing was at its height and the cotton and garden seed Pork had brought from Macon was being put into the ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  Pork had been almost worthless since the trip, so proud was he of returning safely with his wagon-load of dress goods, seed, fowls, hams, side meat and meal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  I'll send Pork to Macon tomorrow to buy more seed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  She asked to buy seed corn from them and they promised it and fell to discussing farm problems.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  They had all made her welcome at Mimosa and had insisted on giving, not selling, her the seed corn.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  Ain never seed a proper cah'ige in dere lives.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  Ah ain never seed ha'r dat color in mah life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  Ah nebber in mah life seed sech trashy niggers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
12  His wife, she call me 'Mister' fust time she seed me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
13  Ah has seed you do a heap of things dat would hu't Miss Ellen, did she know.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
14  "You is de wustes' boy Ah ever seed," she said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
15  She would plant one seed in the blank wall.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
16  Move the pots outside when the seeds begin to sprout.
17  The seeds need to be completely immersed in water.
18  Sow the seeds one inch deep in the soil.
19  The seeds of friendship were sown early, and they remained lifelong companions.
20  Keep the seeds in warm, damp conditions to encourage germination.
21  The seeds will sprout in a few days.
22  The farmers distributed seeds over the field.
23  The seeds are ground into a fine powder before use.
24  Rich industrialised countries have sown the seeds of global warming.
25  Sow the seeds in late March.
26  He raised questions meant to plant seeds of doubts in the minds of jurors.
27  We sell pots, gloves, seeds and other gardening paraphernalia.
28  Sow the seeds outdoors in spring.
29  The seeds may be sown outdoors in the spring.
30  Donna Redmond planted the first seeds of urban farm when she couldn't find fresh produce nearby.