How to Use growing in a Sentence
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Depending on the location, your plant may need a lot more growing time.
—Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 June 2025
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The main thing to think about, Schmitz said, is Hoosiers getting more growing season length.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2023
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That's not actually true, and there is a small but growing effort to push back against this language, this rhetoric.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
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But renewables alone cannot meet the enormous and growing need for energy across Africa.
—Mo Ibrahim, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
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Libs of TikTok has now taken on a large and growing role in the nation’s culture wars.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2024
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Algae blooms are a huge and growing problem for Wisconsin's beloved waters.
—Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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The debate kind of crystallized what had been a big and growing problem, which was doubts about his fitness to serve another four years.
—Bryan Walsh, Vox, 23 July 2024
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Today, the real and growing problem is not just tariffs but uncertainty.
—Kyle Handley, National Review, 11 June 2025
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Nevertheless, there is no question that counterfeit medicines are a huge and growing problem, the human costs of which are immense.
—Tim K. MacKey, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2012
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Workers in the sandwich generation make up a critical—and growing—portion of the mid-career talent pool.
—Michelle Travis, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
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So, what difference to mitigating and adapting to the climate crisis can this diverse and growing movement make?
—Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
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Plastic pollution remains one of our largest–and growing– environmental threats.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 19 June 2025
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Next Step Produce starts the rice in a greenhouse and then transplants it, allowing for more growing days so the farm can grow higher-yield varieties.
—Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
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The department is hiring more customer service agents to help address the new and growing backlog of applications, Blinken added.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2023
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Parents like me know the immense and growing need for job training and meaningful employment opportunities for our children.
—Jason Eichenholz, Orlando Sentinel, 14 July 2024
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Amid the battle against climate change, there’s an important and growing effort to address the potential job loss created by the decline of the fossil fuel industry.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Feb. 2024
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More generally, there is a strong and growing sense of solidarity between participants.
—Callum McLennan, Variety, 23 Sep. 2025
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Gálvez, of the opposition coalition, has signaled her intention to scale back the Mexican military’s contentious and growing role.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
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However, the system’s warehouse-scale data centers, which are jam-packed with computers and servers that move and store billions of data, require a large and growing amount of electricity.
—Mark J. Perry, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
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This new and growing field finds large cloud platforms like Microsoft and Google joining the ranks of startups to create and roll out explainable AI systems.
—Heather Wishart-Smith, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
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After a dry stretch, there’s a small but growing chance for rain in Phoenix this week as monsoon conditions strengthen, but most of the action will stay focused over the higher terrains east of the Valley.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 29 July 2025
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Now, however, Moran Security is registered in both Moscow and Belize and the group appears to have a new and growing mission.
—Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 18 Dec. 2025
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Our goal is to develop ways to discover major new deposits of vital metals needed for electric vehicle (EV) batteries—for which there is an enormous and growing need.
—Josh Goldman, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Apr. 2023
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For the last 12 years, the mission of the shelter owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence hasn’t changed, but the dynamic and growing need for beds has.
—Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
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The construction, government and manufacturing sectors in particular have a strong and growing need for early talent who possess tech skills outside software or computing.
—Christine Y. Cruzvergara, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
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Identifying And Addressing Burnout Whether companies admit it or not, burnout is a serious and growing problem.
—Ryan Wong, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Hotels and a micro-community Homelessness is a persistent and growing problem in Denver as in many metro areas across the United States.
—Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2024
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With her distinctive pink aesthetic and growing ambitions, Aria Bela hopes to translate her massive digital following into musical success, while staying true to the gaming roots that built her career.
—Veronica Villafañe, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
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Hotter temperatures, especially during the non-growing season, accelerate the microbes producing nitrous oxide.
—Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
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If this continues—and the Boston Consulting Group and Kearney believe the trend is global and growing—beef could be the new coal, shunned by elite tastemakers over rising temperatures and squeezed by increasingly cheap alternatives.
—Mike Dorning, Fortune, 16 May 2021
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