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Meanings of sprout in English
Synonyms
Examples for "shoot"
Examples for "shoot"
1
Despite a shoot-to-kill policy on the border, thousands still leave each month.
2
No further details were immediately available, including the time of the shoot-down.
3
This optical arms race presents a problem for makers of point-and-shoot cameras.
4
That is, the defender may shoot to kill; the offender may not.
5
Monstrous creatures writhe about the crags; the men shoot some of them.
1
Some even require a good hot fire for their seeds to germinate.
2
The seed of genius planted in his nature was beginning to germinate.
3
Where any vitality remained in the nut, it was sure to germinate.
4
Peas like cool soil; in fact, they can germinate in 40-degree soil.
5
Birds carry up seeds and grains, and these germinate in moist thatch.
1
Not that any given spud is ever such a paragon of form.
2
Tom made the spud synthesiser for recent play The Potato Stamp Megalomaniac.
3
Borr Drilling Frigg has a spud can diameter of approximately 60 feet.
4
The dredger cuts by swinging on a center spud 16 in.
5
Doesn't do a thing nowadays but dig in the garden with a spud.
1
Their problems began to bourgeon immediately after they left New Jersey and went to Kedzie's old apartment for further debate as to their future lodgings.
2
Sharp surprise and a palpable fear bourgeoned upon the Captain's face.
3
The FAO received about half of the emergency funding it requested last year, Bourgeon said.
4
They have bourgeoned, but they have not blossomed.
5
For the tulips have not bourgeoned yet.
1
If Councillors detrain, demons pullulate about their feet, eating the echoes of their steps.
2
There is no fear that the professors who pullulate all over the Baltic Plain will overcome the Latins in logic.
3
A thousand schemes, a thousand possibilities sprang to life in his pullulating brain.
4
Records attesting to his death were pullulating like insect eggs and verifying each other beyond all contention.
5
On the roadbed there is a man whose front pullulates with scrawny arms, each from a corpse or an amputation.
1
Beneath their crowns and handkerchiefs burgeoned forth plaits of false hair decorated with coral and silver ornaments.
Usage of sprout in English
1
Many believe we may be welcoming the young sprout sooner than expected.
2
Something like, 'Gosh, Belle, I hope you made your famous brussels-sprout dish.'
3
The campanile has a round top and flowers sprout from the masonry.
4
Some, like the chestnut and poplar, sprout profusely; others sprout very little.
5
Then, before the sun began its long journey away, they would sprout.
6
Rowen's been making hers since about two weeks out of her sprout.
7
The feeble sprout of Christianity was planted by this good British girl.
8
She was pulling up weeds before they had a chance to sprout.
9
After the willows sprout, uncle goes to his summer house every afternoon.
10
Ragginbone says it's an elemental, so it can sprout up again anytime.
11
There had been a grain of hope within her, ready to sprout.
12
No rain falls inside those walls, no trees sprout, no wind blows.
13
Molten flaming splinters sprout from funnels, lofty protrusions from surface crust .
14
Bombs, such as this, do not sprout of themselves on bare decks.
15
It should be sown in the earth, to sprout and bear fruit!
16
The Brussels sprout is a good example of the acceptable vegetable.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common