Sprout

//spɹaʊt//

"Sprout" in a Sentence (19 examples)

Professor Sprout acclimated the plant to a new environment.

I don't think that they are valuable just because they have a large crop, but I'm glad when they sprout in great numbers - even when they are poison mushrooms.

In order to sprout, seeds need air and water.

Treat the sprout gently, as you would treat a baby.

Magnetic fields on Mars sprout like mushrooms in its southern hemisphere.

Philetas, having given them this and further information, bade them farewell, but before they permitted him to depart, they presented him with a cheese, and a kid whose horns were just beginning to sprout.

The potatoes started to sprout.

The sheets are placed atop soil in a home planter or an outdoor garden. When watered, the pods dissolve and plants sprout in 10 days (for pea shoots) to 70 days (for dragon carrots).

Tom dipped the broccoli sprout into the dressing.

That way, lots of flowers will sprout.

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Near-synonyms: seedling, chit

Oh my, how your sprouts have grown!

In our family we only eat sprouts once a year, at Christmas.

The crocuses should be sprouting after 2 months, provided they're well tended.

I sprouted beans and radishes and put them in my salad.

to sprout potatoes

Whiskers sprouted from the old man's chin.

A lot of coffee shops have sprouted up in this neighbourhood since the block of flats was put up.

In those early years of the 1830s and 1840s, railways were sprouting up all over the country in a haphazard way.

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