Graft

//ɡɹɑːft//

"Graft" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Select the graft point after imagining how the branches will extend and fruit grow.

Some people hate graft because they didn't get their share.

He is one of many who have flocked to the Kangari hills in southern Sierra Leone to find small fortunes in the hard graft of alluvial gold mining.

Daniel used grafting tape to prevent water from entering the graft.

The graft started expanding in size.

The graft was successful.

Preserve your home; raise your child correctly; love your brother; graft your oleasters; plough your land; irrigate your field; lift up those who have no strength left; but leave God to the others.

The former president is being investigated over allegations of graft, bribery, illegal possession of state assets and other offenses.

And graft my love immortal on thy fame!

Of course, this was a music cruise, a floating rock festival grafted onto a passenger ship, and a quietly thriving corner of the music and cruise industries.

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[…] in the first operation, we dug through the peat, the hard sand, and gravel, and one spade's graft (about nine inches deep, and seven inches wide) into the quick sand, the whole length of this drain,[…]

If policemen take graft now from the liquor dealers for the privilege of keeping open on Sunday, what is to prevent them, if this bill is passed, from taking graft from the liquor men for the privilege of selling liquor before 1 p.m. on Sunday[…]?

We had to put in a lot of hard graft to get the job done.

Liz Truss, now the Tory leadership frontrunner, launched an astonishing broadside against British workers, saying they needed “more graft” and suggesting they lacked the “skill and application” of foreign rivals, the Guardian can reveal.

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