SPROUT in a Sentence

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20 example sentences for SPROUT, such as:

1. The seeds will sprout in a few days.
2. The plant will sprout early this year.
3. Move the pots outside when the seeds begin to sprout.
4. I'm surprised at you, Scarlett, for sprouting a conscience this late in life.
5. She found many more of the sprouting pale green points than she had ever hoped to find.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPROUT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sprout
 v.  have new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud; shoot up
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  One boy, on whose face a blond fuzz had just begun to sprout, was dumped on the front porch by a mounted soldier bound for Fayetteville.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
2  It domineered above them so, that all their bodings, doubts, misgivings, fears, were fain to hide beneath their souls, and not sprout forth a single spear or leaf.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
3  Jo's book was the pride of her heart, and was regarded by her family as a literary sprout of great promise.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
4  He made, however, a last vigorous attack on Athelstane, and he found that resuscitated sprout of Saxon royalty engaged, like country squires of our own day, in a furious war with the clergy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  She found many more of the sprouting pale green points than she had ever hoped to find.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  There were things sprouting and pushing out from the roots of clumps of plants and there were actually here and there glimpses of royal purple and yellow unfurling among the stems of crocuses.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  I'm surprised at you, Scarlett, for sprouting a conscience this late in life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
8  Yet even by this deadly winter the germ of hope was not to be kept from sprouting in their hearts.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
9  Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its foliage in his shadow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
10  He who felt that he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings sprouting on Cosette.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR
11  The luminous rays wrapped her up with her increasing distance, and the rustle of her dress over the sprouting sedge and grass died away.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
12  A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
13  Yet his plump, healthy-looking cheeks were so robustly constituted, and contained such an abundance of recreative vigour, that a new whisker soon sprouted in place of the old one, and even surpassed its predecessor.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
14  Through the hard century-old bark, even where there were no twigs, leaves had sprouted such as one could hardly believe the old veteran could have produced.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III
15  They found the ashes scattered by the wind, but the peas and lentils had sprouted, and grown sufficiently above the ground, to guide them in the moonlight along the path.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM
Example Sentence:
1  Move the pots outside when the seeds begin to sprout.
2  The seeds will sprout in a few days.
3  The plant will sprout early this year.