How to Use spawn in a Sentence

spawn

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• The health-food craze spawned a multimillion-dollar industry.
• The Atlantic is not the only ocean to have spawned a monster storm in 2023.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 8 Sep. 2023
• Every year, hordes of crappie flock to the shallows to spawn.
  — Don Wirth, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2024
• The film spawned two sequels, as well as a spin-off film with Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
• Why: Smallmouth bass don’t spawn until the water reaches the low 60s.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 14 Mar. 2024
• End of carousel That sort of rage against the machine has spawned an entire industry.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• Since then, hip-hop has spawned a mass of subgenres – gangsta rap, crunk and trap among them.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• So for the last 110 years, salmon, steelhead and other fish that used the river above where the dams were for spawning, have been unable to get there.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• Now, scientists say, chum salmon are spawning in the Arctic, a sign of rapid climate change.
  — WIRED, 18 Oct. 2023
• The franchise has since spawned multiple sequels and spinoffs on its way to becoming one of the best-selling video games of all time.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023
• This line of storms has the potential to spawn more tornadoes, as well as large hail and damaging winds, into the evening.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 9 Dec. 2023
• Twitter’s decline has spawned or revived a host of rivals, such as the nonprofit Mastodon and Meta’s Threads.
  — Jeremy B. Merrill, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• Both became tremendous hits for BET, and have spawned multiple spinoffs.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 9 Jan. 2024
• How to catch them: Steelhead are giant rainbow trout that return to Idaho to spawn after spending most of their lives in the ocean.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• The 81st Golden Globe Awards spawned several jokes and laugh-worthy memes Sunday.
  — Patrick Ryan, The Enquirer, 8 Jan. 2024
• This is the place that spawned tyrannical sushi masters and ramen bullies who make their staff and customers tremble with a glare.
  — Zoe Li, CNN, 2 May 2023
• Her acting debut was the second-highest grossing film of 1992 and spawned the best-selling soundtrack of all time.
  — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2023
• Growth rates, spawning success, and bass appeal certainly matter here, but for anglers, the bluegill brings a lot more to the table.
  — David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
• Then in March, a different star naturally spawned and was sexed as male.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2023
• Activists launch a sit-in, and the ensuing police response spawns a wider movement, and in turn, a more sprawling crackdown.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• The series spawned five previous films before running out of gas with the 2013 installment.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 Apr. 2024
• But the foundation of this series is still subterfuge and skullduggery, a vision of sneaky spycraft that’s outlived the Cold War that spawned it.
  — Vulture, 14 July 2023
• The United States can neither easily dismantle the axis nor defeat the ideas that spawned it.
  — Narges Bajoghli, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2024
• The talent that spawned this success and popularity was not so easy to define.
  — Bruce Weber, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• Camp Lejeune's poisoned water has spawned thousands of claims.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 15 May 2023
• Still, if it is eventually proved that bluefin are spawning in the Slope Sea in significant numbers, this could be good news for the species.
  — Karen Pinchin, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
• Seven-game losing streaks tend to spawn sobering subplots.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
• This has helped drive traffic to their sites and has also spawned an industry of consultants and marketers who advise on how best to do that.
  — Ravi Sen, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2023
• The original flick spawned 12 additional movies, and the franchise has made more than $1 billion and counting.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• This spring’s watch launches have spawned a whole new school of salmon dials in a continuation of a trend that has been swimming upstream for a while now.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2023

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spawn

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• Pacific salmon return to Alaskan streams to deposit their spawn.
• The full moon will be the peak of the sheepshead spawn.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 4 Apr. 2021
• And the spawn is not the end of it for production around shad.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 2 May 2021
• Brown and brook trout spawn in the fall, and trout of all species love to feed on their eggs.
  — Field & Stream, 13 Oct. 2020
• Among the coastal tribes, it was known as the fish moon, when the shad swam upstream to spawn.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2023
• When the shad spawn ends, bluegills take over the shallows and bass follow them.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 28 May 2021
• The servers are behind a little door with a chest spawn in it.
  — Dave Thier, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• Before the spawn, bass cruise to feed and look for bedding sites.
  — Mark Hicks, Field & Stream, 19 May 2020
• Fish spawn in the many rivers, creeks, and freshwater lakes.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2023
• One of the spawn rooms is actually Lúcio’s home, and the end of the map is his club.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• The fish was fat and ready for the spawn and darted off with a splash upon release.
  — Jim Gronaw, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 Apr. 2021
• Like many spawn of the ’80s and ’90s, my own childhood jiggled and wobbled.
  — Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon Appétit, 17 Oct. 2023
• If and Zoom had a baby, would be their lovely 8-bit spawn.
  — Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2021
• Acts of kindness spawn acts of kindness and make for a better world.
  — Cquinn, cleveland, 29 July 2023
• And in the process, the younger Martin has earned the affection of another NBA spawn.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 22 Mar. 2023
• The other two spawn in the spring in either the central Baltic or its gulfs farther north.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 2 Nov. 2022
• The flathead spawn begins when the water hits 80 degrees, though not all the fish spawn at once.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 15 June 2023
• Huke rushed past the A flag and toward the Mutineers’ spawn, scouting for his team.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 25 July 2020
• And Zhùr’s den wasn’t far from the Klondike River, where Chinook salmon spawn today.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2020
• Maybe the spawn of these two lovebirds will go on to cure the zombie outbreak or something.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 May 2021
• The reefs would be closed to harvest and used strictly to breed spawn and increase larvae.
  — Halle Parker | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 8 Dec. 2020
• The fish are spawning or post spawn in much of the lake--check the edges of the grass fields for open areas with hard bottom or woody cover.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 7 May 2021
• The latest from spawn-of-Riverdance supergroup the High Kings is a live album with a twist.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• Here, Richard Donner uses a pint-size spawn of the devil to elicit his screams.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2023
• To spawn, salmon dig small depressions called redds to lay their eggs.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• Each year, millions of salmon spawn, stop eating, rot alive, and dissolve away.
  — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
• Some kids had sneaker skates, the spawn of a track shoe and a monster truck; others had the figure-skating boot.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 May 2021
• One of his favorite opportunities of the year is the chance to target big, pre-spawn walleyes in mid-March.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2020
• The bright red color is adapted by both male and female sockeye, and shows a readiness to spawn.
  — Jessie Sheldon, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Most season dates are set to coincide with, or fall just after, the catfish spawn in the spring.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 15 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024