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Sentences starting with growing

Growing flowers under difficulties was his recreation. [11]

Sentences ending with growing

Dead stop,--so still you could hear your hair growing. [6]
It was fifty years old, and was growing slowly--very slowly, in fact, but still it was growing. [5]
But instead of those you have offered them sour, unripe fruit, with a glittering rind-from your own garden, of your own growing. [10]
Combined, they will then number a population of two hundred and fifty thousand, if they continue to grow as they are now growing. [5]
As if measuring themselves and preparing for the coming movement, the western forces push toward the east several times in 1805, 1806, 1807, and 1809, gaining strength and growing. [2]
That was hardly the phrase for it; he had merely been liked, but now dislike for him was growing. [5]
It was not that he ignored her frivolous side; it was nicely balanced by the other, and that other seemed growing. [9]
Is the fairy structure growing? [5]
The crowd of sick people is great, and growing. [5]
He was always ready to lend money on a crop, and sell vodka and other necessities of life on credit while the crop was growing. [5]

Short sentences using growing

It is growing late. [10]
But I am growing unreliable. [5]
And time is growing short. [9]
The silence was growing lengthy. [5]
The east is growing grey. [10]
It was already growing dark. [10]
It was growing dusk. [2]
It was growing dusk. [10]
He was growing angry. [9]
She's growing rich. [9]

Sentences containing growing two or more times

And I saw you growing away from me all the time, Hugh, growing away from the friends who were fond of you, as though you were fading in the distance. [9]
But the country keeps on growing and growing, and you're not content with half. [9]
Clarence dropped in from time to time and said the public excitement was growing and growing all the time, and the whole country filling up with human masses as far as one could see from the battlements. [5]

More example sentences with the word growing in them

As for the young man, he felt as though wings were growing from his shoulders, and this fateful evening was one of the happiest of his life. [10]
I have heard you say so many times that nobody could be a great artist without passing years and years at work, and growing pale and lean with thinking so hard. [6]
At nearly fifteen years old, when she was growing fast, and in an irritable state of mind and body, she had had a governess placed over her for whom she had conceived an aversion. [6]
Janet's heart was wrung as she gazed at the gaunt, bewildered faces growing daily more tragic, more bewildered and gaunt; she marvelled at the animal-like patience of these Europeans, at the dumb submission of most of them to privations that struck her as appalling. [9]
Janet and Lise would be growing up, there would be young men, and no place to see them save the sidewalks. [9]
As the night wore on, Lavilette could hear hoof-beats behind him; those of the mare growing clearer and clearer, and those of the artillerymen remaining about the same, monotonously steady. [11]
But the next words: "Do not fear," checked her hasty impulse--she smoothed out the papyrus and read on with growing excitement: "Do not fear that I shall address you as a lover--as the man for whom there is but one woman on earth. [10]
His iron will won the victory; by the time it was growing dusk the despatch was written. [10]
Margaret's growing intimacy with Carmen was one of the sources of her uneasiness. [4]
Larks flew heavenward with a low sweet song, from amidst the grain growing luxuriantly for the winter harvest, and butterflies hovered above the blossoming fields. [10]
Young people, especially, who have a bone-factory at work in them, and have to feed the living looms of innumerable growing tissues, should be provided for, if possible, by those who love them like their own flesh and blood. [6]
There was a whiteness growing round the eyes, and eating up the warmth of the cheek; his admirably smooth brow was contracted into heavy wrinkles, and a foot shifted uneasily on the floor with a scraping sole. [11]
The old man whimpered yet, but he was growing quieter. [11]
The big house where they lived was old, solid, picturesque the lower part built of logs, the upper of rough clapboards, with vines growing up the outside stone chimneys. [13]
It was as when several grafts, bearing fruit that ripens at different times, are growing upon the same stock. [6]
In April, 1579, when Gilbert took active steps under the charter of 1578, diplomatic difficulties arose, growing out of Elizabeth's policy with the Spaniards, and when Gilbert's ships were ready to sail he was stopped by an order from the council. [4]
Here in the West you are near the centre of a vast empire, you feel its mighty pulse, the throb and heartbeat of its immense and growing strength. [4]
These extraordinary towns were ten miles apart, a few months ago, but were growing so fast that they may possibly be joined now, and getting along under a single mayor. [5]
The old people were proud of Aaron, too; but all their love was lavished upon Eleasar, their grandson, whom they beheld growing up into a second Moses. [10]
When her eyes were not thus busy, they were searching the lee of the hillside round for yellow lilies, and the valley below for the campion, the daffodil, and the thousand pretty ferns growing in profusion there. [11]
Life and Love were growing distant though he loved her as few love and live. [11]
They and he were clearly in a minority, and his deep inward longing to be with the majority was growing into an engrossing passion. [6]
The kitchen windows were already growing yellow, and through them the faithful Millicent could be seen bustling about in her preparations for supper. [9]
As the days went by it seemed plain that he was growing in favor with Louise,--not sweepingly so, but yet perceptibly, he fancied. [5]
The days, the weeks went on, with Jean Jacques growing thinner and thinner, but going about with his head up like the gold Cock of Beaugard, and even crowing now and then, as he had done of yore. [11]
Ursula was growing weak herself, and showed it; and she ate of the food that was offered her like a starving person, but could not be persuaded to carry any home, for Marget would not eat charity food. [5]
As he sat watching her, he saw that her features were growing easier, and in a short time her deep, even breathing showed that she was asleep. [6]
Mark Twain, in Washington, was in line for political preferment: His wide acquaintance on the Pacific slope, his new fame and growing popularity, his powerful and dreaded pen, all gave him special distinction at the capital. [5]
A young farmer was urged to set out some apple-trees.--No, said he, they are too long growing, and I don't want to plant for other people. [6]
To cease growing was to die. [9]
But if it was threatened by any other influence, would not all men say that the best thing that could be done, if we could not or ought not to destroy it, would be at least to keep it from growing any larger? [7]
For Mr. Varney was right,--one could feel enthusiasm for Theodore Watling; and my growing intimacy with him, the sense that I was having a part in his career, a share in his success, became for the moment the passion of my life. [9]
Meantime the camp was filling up with people, and there was a constantly growing excitement about our Humboldt mines. [5]
While her heart was daily growing more bitter against him, he had been fighting his vessel against great odds, and at last had been shipwrecked and carried off a prisoner. [11]
One of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable young man. [2]
The number of victims swelled daily, and the approach of the comet kept pace with the growing misery of the town. [10]
We followed a very good road through a broken, pleasant country, gradually growing wilder and less cultivated. [4]
Lily of the valley, growing in the shade now,--perhaps better there until her petals drop; and yet if she is all I often fancy she is, how her youthful presence would illuminate and sweeten a household! [6]
These, it is useless to say, were probably not the "barnacle geese" which the nautical travelers used to find, and picture growing upon bushes and dropping from the eggs, when they were ripe, full-fledged into the water. [4]
She was growing used to celebrity, and could already sit calm and seemingly unconscious, under the fire of fifty lorgnettes in a theatre, or even overhear the low voice "That's she! [5]
There was with us a profound sense of loss and sorrow, due partly to the growing knowledge, not pleasing to our vanity, that Margaret could get on very well without us, that we were not necessary to her life. [4]
Dr. Hockiu gave us a ghastly curiosity--a lignified caterpillar with a plant growing out of the back of its neck--a plant with a slender stem 4 inches high. [5]
It was the undecided battle, and the enemy, as in his noblest moments he had considered the growing passion, was getting the better of him. [6]
Sonya was nearly twenty; she had stopped growing prettier and promised nothing more than she was already, but that was enough. [2]
These stiltwalkers were tools in the hands of the King's foes, who were growing more powerful every day. [11]
This continued, and Tom began to evince a growing distress. [5]
We must be tolerant, for the thought which stammers on a single tongue today may organize itself in the growing consciousness of the time, and come back to us like the voice of the multitudinous waves of the ocean on the morrow. [3]
There were others to whom this growing reality was painful. [11]
Yet from time to time, as he rested, he saw the massive red walls growing higher and wilder, more looming and broken. [13]
On growing used to the darkness Pierre saw that the man was taking off his leg bands, and the way he did it aroused Pierre's interest. [2]
The stream began to murmur by the door, and the fragrance of growing herbs and flowers came softly on the vernal breeze. [5]
He was sent to make war on the bushes that constantly encroached upon the pastureland; but John had no hostility to any growing thing, and a very little bushwhacking satisfied him. [4]
You would try to hide it; but I would see you growing older hourly before my eyes. [11]
It is difficult to describe how everything is growing and blossoming here now, in the month of May. [10]
He had gone to bed in the evening, and yet he now saw, by the direction of the sun's rays which fell on his bed, that, instead of dawning as he had expected, the day was growing dark. [10]
But he seems to be growing kind to all of us and everybody. [6]
She was growing to a new consciousness; a new glass, through which to see life, was quickly being adjusted to her inner sight. [11]
And all the time, hatred of his ostensible "uncle" was steadily growing in his heart; for he said to himself, "He is white; and I am his chattel, his property, his goods, and he can sell me, just as he could his dog. [5]
I had always thought of the hawthorn as a pretty shrub, growing in hedges; as big as a currant bush or a barberry bush, or some humble plant of that character. [6]
The case is this: my father's health is growing noticeably worse, he cannot stand any contradiction and is becoming irritable. [2]
It was at this time that our growing anxiety to have him look over our life-charts and suggest improvements began to fade out and give place to other interests. [5]
When I measured this in 1837, it was twenty-four feet eight inches in circumference at five feet from the ground; growing larger above and below. [6]
Well, the first thing that strikes you when you come to Moffitt is the notion that there has been a good warm, growing rain, and the town's come up overnight. [8]
He said, "This thing is growing monotonous! [5]
The sage and thickets of oak and brakes of alder gave place to pinyon pine growing out of rocky soil. [13]
For two days they travelled, the friendship between them growing hourly closer. [11]
The vision of these had remained with him during the years of his toil in the growing Western city, and embodied from the first homesick days an ideal to which he hoped sometime permanently to return. [9]
In circumstances like these a growing portrait runs a good many risks. [5]
And it was there, I think, that the growing day and the early sun exposed the distant range called the Blue Mountains. [5]
But, speaking generally, the world is still young and growing, and a considerable portion of it unfinished. [4]
It spread over the width of East Street, growing larger every minute, until presently she was hemmed in. [9]
The shadows of the walnuts and hickories were growing long, and a rich country was giving up its scent to the evening air. [9]
How you watch the tender twigs in spring, and the freshly forming bark, hovering about the healthy growing tree with your pruning-knife many a sunny morning! [4]
And this is the school in which the Mukaukas' granddaughter is growing up! [10]
It was in the probable growing relation between Elsie and the schoolmaster. [6]
They thought of the old man and his hut, and then broke away into talk of their own countryside, of the war with France, of the growing rebellious spirit in Ireland, of riots in Dublin town, of trouble at Limerick, Cork, and Sligo. [11]
Now what is the object in life of this great, growing class that has money and leisure, what does it chiefly care for? [4]
The next year, the little tree blossoms full, and sets well; and in the autumn has on its slender, drooping limbs half a bushel of fruit, daily growing more delicious in the sun. [4]
He, too, stared, the laughter fading from his eyes, first astonishment, and then anger, growing in them, slowly, surely. [9]
In spite of the growing sordidness of Lyme Street, my mother and I still lived in the old house, for which she very naturally had a sentiment. [9]
Bravely she fought the growing care and suspicion in her heart; but she was being tried beyond her strength. [11]
The melancholy of the gorgeously tinted trees, the flights of the birds to the south, the smell of the fallow field, the wind with the touch of the coming rains--these had given to a growing discontent with her monotonous life the desire born of self-pity. [11]
Victoria stood before the fire listening to the sound of the wheels gradually growing fainter, and her mind refused to work. [9]
If I knew the faltering talk in that hour of growing confidence and expectation, I would not repeat it. [4]
They listened; evidently the distant shoutings were growing more distant! [5]
She had entered the damp cave chamber in a thin summer gown, and it now seemed to be continually growing colder and colder. [10]
It was in the course of the long, weary spring before her disappearance, that a dangerous chord was struck which added to her growing restlessness. [6]
There would be the constant need of fighting the hot tempers and impulses of youth, growing more and more instead of less and less unreasonable. [4]
The stable is the best house in the place; there are three or four houses besides, and one of them is white, and has vines growing over the front door, and hollyhocks by the front gate. [4]
Her acceptance of the act--for Lise--was a function of the hatred consuming her, a hatred which, growing in bigness, had made Ditmar merely the personification of that world. [9]
He felicitates himself that, when he gets it once planted, he will have a season of rest and of enjoyment in the sprouting and growing of his seeds. [4]
I was glad that, at this moment, the Seigneur Duvarney entered, for I could feel the air now growing colder about Madame his wife. [11]
He had entered that period which marks the decline of men who have ceased growing in knowledge and strength: from forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. [6]
When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. [5]
For the sight, that morning of this lady in her dressing-gown over the stairway, had seemingly set the seal on a growing distaste. [9]
Don't you think that I get more pleasure in looking at all the growing things we see, as we sit here, than you do in seeing them and knowing as little about them as you pretend to? [4]
But sometimes soberly, thanking Heaven that their hair was left growing on their heads. [9]
I wasn't much terrified by your growing inclinations, but when you begin to call presentiments to your aid, I confess that I "weaken. [5]
The wear and tear of settling the house broke her down, and she has been growing weaker and weaker for a fortnight. [5]
I am not sure but the notion is growing in what is called the intellectual class, that it is a mistake to intrust the government to the ignorant many, and that it can only be lodged safely in the hands of the wise few. [4]

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