How to Use grow in a Sentence

grow

verb

• The list of chores to do this weekend keeps growing.
• He's still just a growing boy.
• It can be hard to watch our children change as they grow.
• The city is growing rapidly.
• It's wonderful to see how she has grown as a person since going to college.
• She grew intellectually and emotionally in her first year at college.
• As the Charlotte area grows and changes, so does its restaurants.
  — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 16 Feb. 2024
• The demands from the woman come in the wake of the growing conflict between the country Israel and the Hamas group.
  — Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2023
• Tulare Lake grew nearly as large as Lake Tahoe for a time.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
• The eggs are then ingested by small mammals, and the worms can grow inside them.
  — Amanda Holpuch, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• Equally concerning was the rift that was growing in the kitchen floor.
  — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2024
• And now that the Wolfpack has reached the Final Four, the spotlight has grown larger than ever.
  — Becky Sullivan, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
• And don’t worry if her winters get too cold—the tree can grow indoors, too.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2023
• And plants can grow deep-reaching roots to get a drink from far underground.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• In the years that followed, as the number of students grew, the campus had to be expanded.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Feb. 2024
• As the website’s influence has grown, Alt News has attracted the ire of the Hindu right.
  — Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2023
• The app’s paying members grew 33% to 1.3 million for the period.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
• Herbicides that can kill the seedlings have the potential to damage the other plants growing in the garden.
  — Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
• Still, the district saw a 10 percent uptick in the number of workers over the past three years, with revenue growing by 29 percent.
  — Angelica Mari, WIRED, 30 June 2023
• There is an easy way for Americans to grow their wealth with just a few clicks of a button, but few are aware of this risk-free money move.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2023
• In a statement at the time, Colorado Parks and Wildlife had said that bears have grown accustomed to breaking into cars to steal food.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
• And my roots have been growing underneath ground unseen for so long.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
• Delivery also grew by 8.6% — the largest year-over-year sales increase.
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
• In the farming industry, most of the peppers grown commercially in the United States can be traced back to his farm.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2023
• Retail theft is a $9 billion problem throughout the state — and growing.
  — Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
• The hole generally begins to grow in September, and shrinks back down in the winter months.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2023
• China’s economic presence in the Middle East has grown markedly over the past decade.
  — Maria Fantappie and Vali Nasr, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2023
• Many of its 27 families had little to eat beyond what was grown, fished or hunted.
  — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
• With a voice at first shaky, then growing bolder and louder, Stoller appealed to board members to put their students first.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• The growing toll that the mental health crisis is exacting on the country is borne out in other data, too.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024