sprout
Example Sentences
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Mom packed me a chickpea salad sandwich on sprouted bread, which is wrapped in paper at the bottom of my tote bag.
From Literature
This girl boss couldn’t feel less human if antennae sprouted from her eyebrows.
From Los Angeles Times
Some early models of the satellite dishes measured 16 feet in diameter, and hundreds of thousands of them sprouted up across the country.
Another example could be giving a child that is refusing to eat vegetables the option between broccoli or sprouts.
From BBC
A few taller buildings stood up out of the floodwaters like castles with moats, and the tops of palm trees and electric poles sprouted from the water like mangroves.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
