How to Use spawn in a Sentence

spawn

1 of 2 verb
  • The health-food craze spawned a multimillion-dollar industry.
  • The clip quickly spawned dozens of memes.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • More projects seem to be spawning from this one, too.
    David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • If anything, a whole slew of new ones have spawned.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Coral spawn just once a year, about a week after the full moon.
    John Otis, NPR, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The nets capture spawning fish for their eggs.
    John Lauritsen, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Grunion are known to make a faint squeaking noise while spawning.
    Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 1 June 2026
  • Grunion are known to make a faint squeaking noise while spawning.
    Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The series spawned three films throughout the years.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The females spawn once every four years.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Nightmare creatures spawn in her wake.
    Will Borger, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Some have even spawned global headlines.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 21 May 2026
  • The game has spawned six sequels as well as a series of novels.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The film spawned seven sequels.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Yet the genre spawned one of the most devastating diss tracks of all time.
    René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026
  • Their agency spawned from survival.
    Mimosa Jones Tunney, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Every year, hordes of crappie flock to the shallows to spawn.
    Don Wirth, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The property has spawned a slate of live games, as well as a film franchise.
    Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 7 May 2026
  • Another group chat that spawned from on-set friendships?
    Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 31 May 2026
  • But recent wet winters have brought in more cold water, which the fish need to spawn.
    CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • It’s spawned entire books and decades of discussion.
    Adam Carlson, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Since then, hip-hop has spawned a mass of subgenres – gangsta rap, crunk and trap among them.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The hotel that spawned not only a global brand but an entire genre.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2026
  • That's because the size of this deal and the amount of stock that is sloshing around and will be spawned is too great.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 June 2026
  • But the work going on now is to figure out how those little avalanches get spawned.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Such is the demand, a league of horn-reviewers has spawned online.
    Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
  • His deal has already spawned a project, which is in development.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The case spawned a pair of documentary projects, released eight days apart.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
  • The series ran for eight seasons and spawned a 2015 movie.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • The film also became a major box office hit and even spawned a sequel.
    Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026

spawn

2 of 2 noun
  • Pacific salmon return to Alaskan streams to deposit their spawn.
  • Brown and brook trout spawn in the fall, and trout of all species love to feed on their eggs.
    Field & Stream, 13 Oct. 2020
  • And the spawn is not the end of it for production around shad.
    Frank Sargeant, al, 2 May 2021
  • The servers are behind a little door with a chest spawn in it.
    Dave Thier, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Her spawn siblings cried out as she was carried past them.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 26 June 2026
  • Before the spawn, bass cruise to feed and look for bedding sites.
    Mark Hicks, Field & Stream, 19 May 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
  • Acts of kindness spawn acts of kindness and make for a better world.
    Cquinn, cleveland, 29 July 2023
  • To spawn, salmon dig small depressions called redds to lay their eggs.
    Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • His last three cutter-drones raced past the frightened spawn siblings to the wall.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 26 June 2026
  • Each year, millions of salmon spawn, stop eating, rot alive, and dissolve away.
    Marion Renault, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
  • The first two are regional, while the last one is an uncommon spawn.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 27 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • All this time on water has given him a ton of insight into how bass behave around the spawn.
    Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Crappies also head to these deeper waters when a cold front hits during the spawn.
    John Phillips, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
  • 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
  • The other two spawn in the spring in either the central Baltic or its gulfs farther north.
    Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 2 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Much mining is in headwaters, where fish come to spawn, Ortiz says.
    Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 11 Jan. 2023
  • This, owing to the fact that egg-laden females stage in thick cover before and during the spawn.
    John Phillips, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
  • 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
  • But if more water is kept in the reservoir, more cold water can be released over the summer and fall when fish spawn.
    Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2021
  • Bait anglers are casting nickel-sized spawn bags for the big trout, tied with pink, orange and chartreuse mesh.
    cleveland, 10 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The beds are rich in nutrients for the spawn to settle into and become oysters.
    Jonathan Browning, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 May 2021
  • Storms can damage the flats where fishers and crabbers make their living, ripping up the grass where fish hide, feed and spawn.
    Rebecca Blackwell and James Pollard, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023

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