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Sentences ending with grew

She showed me where the May-apples grew. [11]
They seemed to vivify, as her discontent and restlessness grew. [11]
And the more Venters dwelt on this possibility the more perturbed he grew. [13]
The more I tried, the more apparent my lack of insight became to him, the more irritated he grew. [9]
The more she tried to hide this feeling from others and even from herself, the stronger it grew. [2]
The thickness of the rings tells the rate at which it grew. [6]
The property of the freedman Pyrrhus was a flat rock in the northern part of the harbour, scarcely larger than the garden of Didymus at the Corner of the Muses, a desolate spot where neither tree nor blade of grass grew. [10]
The crowd around the cafe grew. [11]
And he said that down in the great depths of the ledge was its richness, and the deeper it went the richer it grew. [5]
Therefore the best sought him out and made friends with him, and the more he prospered the wiser and better he grew. [10]

Short sentences using grew

Willie's grin grew wider. [9]
Honora's face grew warm. [9]
Ingolby grew suddenly very still. [11]
There I grew up. [7]
It grew colder towards morning. [10]
Her cheeks grew tanned.... [9]
It grew by talking through. [4]
Then she grew serious again. [9]
Presently he grew scornful. [11]
His countenance grew peaceful. [11]

Sentences containing grew two or more times

Slowly drawing the wonderful soft web of hair over her shoulders, she began to weave it into one wide strand, which grew and grew in length till it was like a great rope of spun gold. [11]
In 1620 it took a new start and grew fast until 1714 then for the most part slowly until 1786, when it started again and grew pretty well and uniformly until within the last dozen years, when it seems to have got on sluggishly. [6]
He grew according to the need; his mind mastered the problem of the day: and as the problem grew, so did his comprehension of it. [7]
The press grew thicker and thicker in the streets, the excitement grew higher and higher. [5]
His flesh remained the same, and grew not less; but that of Pierre wasted, and his eye grew darker with suffering. [11]
We went slipping silently along, between the green and fragrant banks, with a sense of pleasure and contentment that grew, and grew, all the time. [5]
So, during the next two years, his visits to the city grew in frequency and his tarryings there grew steadily longer in duration. [5]
All day the new feeling grew and strengthened; it grew with a rush; it brought inspiration and cheer with it. [5]
The coughing grew louder and louder, the glaring eye grew larger and still larger, glared wilder and still wilder. [5]
By and by I came to dread those things; and this dread grew and grew and grew; grew until I got to anticipating them with a cold horror. [5]

More example sentences with the word grew in them

Such was Amasis' young, fading daughter, who was now being carried past them, and many an eye grew dim as the beautiful invalid came in sight. [10]
Thus the ingenuous young man argued with himself, until it seemed plain to him that if Evelyn loved him, and the conviction grew that she did, all obstacles must give way to this overmastering passion of his life. [4]
Everywhere you go you see square recesses cut into the hillsides, with perpendicular walls unmarred by crack or crevice, and perhaps you fancy that a house grew out of the ground there, and has been removed in a single piece from the mold. [5]
I have told you his father was a freedman of the former prefect Claudius Balbillus, and by the favor of the Roman his father rose and grew rich. [10]
His father must, yes, he must hear him, and when it grew dusk, he again sought the house to which he belonged, and from which he had been so cruelly expelled. [10]
They gleam golden yellow, and will yield us snow-white meal when they are ground, and yet they grew from a rotting seed. [10]
His eyes grew worse, and on the very day which brought us the news of your safe arrival in Babylon, Amasis became totally blind. [10]
Master Pigeon grew worse and worse under these inflictions. [6]
He invested wisely, worked bravely, and his wealth grew fast. [11]
She grew to womanhood, bringing him daily joy. [11]
She grew to womanhood, and gave her heart to one who could not know its worth. [12]
Stephanion, a Greek woman who grew up in a Macedonian household, must know something about her. [10]
He grew white with sudden passion. [9]
It was covered with ivy, which grew thick and hungry upon it, and it was called the Cloistered House. [11]
Two physicians were with him, and she grew pale as she recognized in one of them the emperor's Roman body-physician. [10]
Elsie grew up with a kind of filial feeling for him, such as her nature was capable of. [6]
Many a cold winter night did the explorers endure this hardship, yet grew fat and lusty under it. [4]
The casks of wine he had drunk in his short life were telling now, and his thrusts grew weaker. [9]
In the bow window jutting out into the street, where the old grandmother sat in her armchair, two green and yellow parrots on brass perches interrupted the conversation, whenever it grew louder, with the shrill screams of their ugly voices. [10]
The way grew wilder and more grewsome. [4]
They passed, too, wild lakes overhung with primeval trees, where the iris and the waterlily grew among the fallen trunks and the water-fowl called to each other across the blue stretches. [9]
I, too, grew wicked and selfish and heedless. [9]
Gradually the people who came here ostensibly for religious exercises made a longer and more permanent occupation, and, without losing its ephemeral character, the place grew and demanded more substantial accommodations. [4]
The Alexandrian fellow-artists who belonged to his party would gratefully welcome this special work; for what grew out of it would have nothing in common with the fascination of superhuman beauty, by which the older artists ensnared the hearts and minds of the multitude. [10]
Louisville grew amazingly; white frame houses were built, and even brick ones. [9]
The rose-bush to which Xanthe went grew on the dike that belonged in common to her father and uncle, beside a bench of beautifully-polished white marble. [10]
Beside the springs which there gushed from the soil of the desert grew green palm trees and thorny acacias. [10]
But the tree which Jahn had planted grew, and its branches spread. [9]
In the Caesareum, where the Empress dwelt, the lights were extinguished one after another; but in the palace of Lochias they grew more numerous and brighter. [10]
The time came when they associated The Man with The Stone: they grew to speak of him simply as The Man. [11]
On the Sundays when the heathen prevailed she studied the congregation, grew to distinguish the local country families; and, if the truth must be told, watched for several Sundays for that ugly yet handsome young man whom she had seen on horseback. [9]
There came moments when I grew slightly alarmed, as, for instance, one Sunday in the early spring when I was dining at the Ezra Hutchins's house and surprised Mrs. Hutchins's glance on me, suspecting her of seeking to divine what manner of man I was. [9]
Wordsworth was wrong when he wrote: "'No mate, no comrade Lucy knew; She dwelt on a wide moor: The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door--' For my wife's been her comrade. [11]
If the truth were known, it would doubtless appear that rich plebeians grew too prominent in their affectation of patrician show on the Grand Canal, and required a wholesome snubbing. [5]
All the rest were cases of grave disease; and so far as the trial, which was interrupted about the fortieth day, extended, the patients grew worse, or received no benefit. [3]
The higher they went, the deeper grew the snow, the more wearisome the wading and climbing. [10]
The farther Katuti went in the lamentably incorrect epistle--which she could only decipher with difficulty--which her darling had written to her, the paler grew her face, which she several times covered with her trembling hands, from which the letter dropped. [10]
The lines were well disguised, yet they increased, and year by year grew deeper. [10]
Thus as the weeks rolled on Washington grew up, into an imposing lion once more, but a lion that roamed the peaceful fields of religion and temperance, and revisited the glittering domain of fashion no more. [5]
Days grew to weeks and weeks to months and we had no tidings, no word from our pilgrims, for good or for evil. [10]
During the whole week she spent in this way, that feeling grew every day. [2]
Sellers grew very weary of it all, and said: "What is the sense in cooking a rabbit before it's caught? [5]
As he grew weaker and more feeble, what would become of this lonely little creature; poor protector as he was, say that he died--what we be her fate, then? [12]
Day after day we toiled, and climbed and searched, and we younger partners grew sicker and still sicker of the promiseless toil. [5]
Oh, say that we shall, that.... " She suddenly grew silent. [11]
Once on the way his brain began slowly to clear, but he grew painfully cold. [11]
It was this watchfulness that our heroine grew to regard as a salient characteristic. [9]
I halted; waited; watched; the conversation continued between the four men; it grew earnest; Backus drew gradually away; the gamblers followed, and kept at his elbow. [5]
Yet as I watched the mist slowly rise, there grew in me the feeling that there lay the end of my quest. [11]
And, however it was, there grew among the men a faint respect for her. [11]
Bronzed as he was, his face showed no paleness; but, as he drew near her, it grew pinched and wan from the effort at self-control. [11]
At first she was very timid, but when I spoke of Pentaur she grew eager; her reverence for him is almost idolatry--and that vexed me. [10]
Most like it was that love for a cause, which was more to be encouraged by her than any woman's love for a man, which as she grew older inspired her with aversion, as talk of marriage brought cynical allusions to her lips. [11]
Before Shiel Crozier was taken ill their romance began; but it grew in volume and intensity after the trial and the shooting, when they met by the bedside of the wounded man. [11]
They knew she was sick at heart, because she grew pale and silent; they did not know for some months how shamed she was. [11]
But the likeness was remarkable, nevertheless, and it grew to be a standing joke with us. [9]
Opposition or complaint was rare among the warriors, but the murmurs, curses, and threats grew all the louder among those who bore no weapons. [10]
In 1853 (he was not yet eighteen) Sam Clemens grew tired of his limitations and pined for the wider horizon of the world. [5]
At first he was not friendly, but when he saw how much I liked his flowers he grew fond of me, and set me to work to tie wreaths and bunches, and to carry them to his customers. [10]
He found it was not common,--that it grew only in certain localities,--and that one of these was among the rocks of the eastern spur of The Mountain. [6]
As yet there was no hope of sleep, inasmuch as that the noise made, by the gentlemen at their carouse came up loud and clear through the open window and, the later it grew, the louder waxed Herdegen's voice and the Junker's, above all others. [10]
In his place was his father--Prince Andrew--and his father had neither shape nor form, but he existed, and when little Nicholas perceived him he grew faint with love: he felt himself powerless, limp, and formless. [2]
But the enemy was evidently delayed, and Ephraim easily perceived the cause of their diminished speed; for the road constantly grew softer and the narrow wheels of the chariots cut deeply into it and perhaps sank to the axles. [10]
He grew vehement --was again refused, and became noisy. [5]
The air grew warmer and warmer, but no one became restless; all seemed as cool of face and body as the grey gowns and coats with grey steel buttons which they wore. [11]
Or had mice wandered to this barren place, where hard brown blades of grass grew between the crusts of salt and the bare spots, and were gnawing the prisoners' hard bread? [10]
At home he wandered around no longer, idle and fasting, but ate his meals regularly, and threw himself into his work with such passionate energy, that even the industrious Schimmel found it too much, and Frau Schimmel grew anxious. [10]
He began to wander about; and there grew upon his senses strange delights and reeling agonies. [11]
Each day the walls of this cage grew narrower and narrower, each day they pressed nearer and nearer to the unfortunate prisoner, until in despair he died and the dungeon became his coffin. [10]
The grey stone walls of the houses grew darker and darker, and seemed to close in on the dumfounded, hysterical crowd. [11]
On the stockade walls grass grew, as though where men will not live like men Nature labours to smother. [11]
All day I waited, until the forest light grew gray, when a buck came and stood over the water, raising his head and stamping from time to time. [9]
Such was the vision in her youthful mind, added to by degrees as she grew into young-ladyhood and surreptitiously became familiar with the writings of Ouida and the Duchess, and other literature of an educating cosmopolitan nature. [9]
The doctor was very much displeased about something and made a change in the dressings, turning the wounded man over so that he groaned again and grew unconscious and delirious from the agony. [2]
It seemed to Venters that Lassiter grew more and more absorbed in his study of Bess, and that he lost his coolness in some strange, softening sympathy. [13]
Down swept that vast horse-shoe wave--it approached the sand-belt--my breath stood still; nearer, nearer--the strip of green turf beyond the yellow belt grew narrow--narrower still--became a mere ribbon in front of the horses--then disappeared under their hoofs. [5]
Warm compassion seized upon the tender-hearted young widow, and her own eyes grew dim. [10]
Occasionally, intruding faintly upon the countryside peace, she was aware of a distant humming sound that grew louder and louder until there shot roaring past her an automobile filled with noisy folk, leaving behind it a suffocating cloud of dust. [9]
This gradually grew upon me, and presently led to trains of thought which became at first unwelcome, then worrying, and at last unendurable. [6]
The feeling grew upon me of some influence which was paralyzing my circulation. [6]
When Porphyro looked upon Madeline at her prayers in the chapel, it was too much for him: "'She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven:--Porphyro grew faint, She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from earthly taint. [6]
A conviction grew upon him that it was a face which his son, or any other man, would not be likely to forget. [9]
When they grew up, both married common laborers. [5]
They kept this up several minutes; and because Joan sat untroubled and indifferent they grew madder and noisier all the time. [5]
Presently there grew up in him a vague kind of hope that, somehow, this symbol would bring him luck--that was the way he put it to himself. [11]
Since I grew up I have attended to our sick, and I cannot tell you how many fractures, wounds, hurts, and fevers I have cured or seen progress to a fatal end. [10]
My interest grew, until it partook of the anxiety of the mother. [5]
So he paused until all was quiet, then his face grew grave and assumed an impressive aspect, and at once all faces sobered in sympathy and took on a look of wondering and expectant interest. [5]
The older labour unions were accused by the strikers of playing the employers' game, and thus grew to be hated even more than the "capitalists. [9]
Their father grew uneasy at their long absence, and sent Joseph, his favorite, to see if any thing had gone wrong with them. [5]
I grew to understand as well as another the methods of curing the leaf. [9]
Tom grew frantic under these taunts, and shouted: "Knock their heads off, Chambers! [5]
No grass grew under my feet. [5]
She seemed wholly unconscious of him, and so he could not flirt with any spirit; he could only talk disjointedly; he could not keep his eyes on the charmers he talked to; he grew irritable, jealous, and very, unhappy. [5]
Yet when he turned to the others again there grew a quick mist in his eyes. [11]
It was Virginia's turn to blush, and she grew red as a peony. [9]
His heart beat tumultuously, his hand trembled, he grew suddenly weak; but he summoned up his will, and ruled himself to something like composure. [11]
And now the tumult and clang of arms grew louder and louder, and the rattle of drums and blare of trumpets began to mingle with the sound. [10]
And Rosalie, who trusted him-- this new element rapidly grew dominant in his thoughts-to be the common criminal in her eyes! [11]
Even as Janet trudged homeward on that Memorial Day afternoon from her Cinderella-like adventure in Silliston the sun grew hot, the air lost its tonic, becoming moist and tepid, white clouds with dark edges were piled up in the western sky. [9]

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