spawning

Example Sentences

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It is a key river for spawning salmon and noted for its brown trout and sea trout populations as well.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

On social media, videos touting the virtues of blue-collar careers are racking up views and spawning hashtags like #nodebtneeded.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

The company has responded clumsily to users’ complaints, spawning several social media news cycles about whether it respects its own customers.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2026

Cut off from historic higher elevation cold-water spawning grounds by the Shasta and Keswick dams, the fish have been stranded for decades in the Sacramento River — where warm water routinely cooks their eggs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

These bigger settlements required more centralized administration; natural resources like good land and spawning streams, though not scarce, now needed to be managed.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann