sown
Example Sentences
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The Iranians also had influence mines adapted to the Gulf's shallow waters, which are sown on the seabed and explode when a large ship is detected overhead, he said.
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026
The middle-aged person consolidates his gains and harvests what he’s sown.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Yet so much of the media coverage around Kennedy, especially lately, has focused more on his personality and lurid life history rather than the chaos and destruction he has sown.
From Salon • Nov. 29, 2025
Those sown in August are currently just tiny blue-green shoots.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025
The great bowl of the Olympic Stadium, its floor forty-two feet below ground level, had been excavated and leveled, its central field sown with grass that was already lush and green.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.