planted

past tense of plant

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of planted Other times, his feet are more planted but the hook’s power is generated from the arc of the punch being wider. Chris McKenna, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Popular committees stored food for curfews, set up clinics, and planted backyard gardens (until Israel outlawed them in 1988). Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026 How floating solar panels work Instead of attaching panels to racks planted in the ground, engineers mount them on floating platforms. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026 More than 2,000 miles from ground zero, thousands of flags were planted into West Sacramento soil to help sow the seeds of remembrance for the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center. Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026 Even planted in a stark white room opposite Channing’s feisty-as-ever Frances, Williams’ Antonia routinely seems to disappear. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026 The walls are cedar, the roofline is gabled, and boxwood hedges fence off terraces, putting it on a shortlist of quaint homes planted atop conventional New York buildings. Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 8 Sep. 2026 Crews removed grass over 4,400 square feet, put down mulch and park benches and planted 173 species of native plants, such as deer grass, ceanothus, sticky monkey flower, red buckwheat and manzanita. Paul Rogers, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026 After Joplin police reached out to the FBI, the campaign manager told federal authorities that Ross wanted the drugs planted in Secker’s car or purse while Ross was on vacation in South Carolina, the affidavit alleges. Ava Kelley, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for planted
Verb
  • The Rainmaker drones seeded in a particular pattern in the clouds, and the resulting snowfall was easy to spot on radar as theirs.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Drivers are seeded 1 through 16, and much like other sports, what’s often more telling is who is peaking at the right time.
    ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Neal Street Productions, a Banijay Entertainment company, was founded in 2003; its founders are Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris and Caro Newling.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
  • When Karma Developers was founded in 2013, its founders began with a different question.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • There are several types of dogs that were originally bred for work, making these breeds excellent hiking partners.
    Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Heifers are bred from between 12 to 15 months of age, and calves have a gestation period just under a year before staying up to 10 months with their mothers.
    Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Although decades of research have established the concept as a mature fusion system, the complicated three-dimensional coils traditionally used by stellarators have created major engineering challenges.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The development came a day after nurses marched to the Council of Governors’ office, a body established to bring together Kenya’s 47 county governments.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The crack epidemic in America, especially in Bed-Stuy, was insane, so that really implanted into my brain.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
  • After being implanted beneath the skin of their backs, the tissues developed their own blood supply and began to contract spontaneously.
    Mike McRae September 02, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The Coast Guard said crews initiated a search mission early Monday after Alaska State Troopers notified the Coast Guard of an overdue boat Sunday evening.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The bank initiated coverage on the motorsport and live entertainment company with a buy, and a price target of $115.
    Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The veteran Premier League title-winner will join fellow former England international Kyle Walker at Turf Moor, with Burnley currently rooted to the foot of the Championship after failing to win any of their opening five games of this term.
    Andy Jones, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • After three or four weeks, a gentle tug on the stem should meet resistance, indicating that the cutting has rooted.
    Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 30 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The use of chemical weapons would add to mounting human rights abuses and atrocities by both sides in a war that has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
    Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 6 Sep. 2026
  • In May 2020, Naming the Lost, a public art project, created temporary memorials to casualties in all five boroughs.
    Robert W. Snyder, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026

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“Planted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/planted. Accessed 11 Sep. 2026.

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