Use grown in a sentence
Sentences ending with grown
- And how young you've grown! [5]
- Ruth had listened with an occasional change of colour, but also with an outward pride to which she seemed suddenly to have grown. [11]
- They had changed, they had grown. [9]
- These had stood still, anchored to their traditions, while she --had she grown? [9]
- Foxon Falls is still a small place, in spite of the fact that the shops have grown. [9]
- The artistic part of our nature does not appear to have grown. [4]
- And how the list had grown! [5]
- I don't think it will be soon," he added, because he saw how haggard her face had grown. [11]
- At twoscore, threescore, is he then full grown? [6]
- We all know how miserly John Enderby has grown. [11]
Short sentences using grown
- He had grown white. [9]
- He has grown up here. [5]
- I had grown modest. [10]
- I've grown to love it. [9]
- Where are they grown? [5]
- I was almost grown, then. [9]
- Meanwhile it had grown light. [10]
- The situation had grown intolerable! [9]
- We had grown apart. [9]
Sentences containing grown two or more times
- He thought of one of the first pieces he had ever heard, a rhapsody which had grown and grown, since it was first improvised by a Tzigany in Hungary. [11]
- No doubt they have sometimes prescribed unwisely, in compliance with the prejudices of their time, but they have grown wiser as they have grown older, and learned to trust more in nature and less in their plans of interference. [3]
- Whether zeal had grown cooler or charity grown warmer in Emerson's days we need not try to determine. [6]
More example sentences with the word grown in them
- But no doubt you, who are old, have long since grown accustomed and reconciled to what seems to me such a disagreeable novelty. [5]
- You know what you are about; and when you are grown up and a suitor comes he will go to a good market. [10]
- He is eleven years of age, of sanguine-nervous temperament, light hair, blue eyes, intelligent countenance, well grown, but rather slight in form, to all appearance in good health, but subject to certain peculiar and anomalous nervous symptoms, of which his father gives this history. [6]
- During the seventy years I have lived I have grown to have but little faith in outward demonstration, to believe in deeds and attainments rather than expressions. [9]
- Things had grown worse, until the day of catastrophe, when Byng had been sent for by the leaders of both parties to the quarrel. [11]
- Bessie had grown worse and she, her mother, had not even inquired for the little one. [10]
- How thin and worn he was, and how large the eyes were in the face grown hollow with suffering! [11]
- Bless you, they won't know you, you've grown so. [5]
- Yet he pledged Wolf, and, touching his glass to his, said: "I've often thought that this might happen if you should see how she has grown up. [10]
- Another half-hour later Wolf entered and passed to his place; then other deputies began to stream in, among them many forms and faces grown familiar of late. [5]
- Hilary's grown up with that way of doing things, and in the old days there was no other way. [9]
- It had grown with my own life, and now with its death to-day I felt that I had lost all that was dear to me. [9]
- He had pleaded with her, had grown angry, and she had left him. [11]
- The doors and windows were sealed tight, and there was nothing to be seen; yet she was more than ever conscious of a presence grown more manifest. [11]
- In spite of will a sort of hopelessness went through me, for I could feel long blades of corn grown up about my couch, an unnatural meadow, springing from the earth floor of my dungeon. [11]
- I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. [5]
- Like all men who have grown up in society, Prince Andrew liked meeting someone there not of the conventional society stamp. [2]
- A coarse barmaid, who had grown up in the camp, served the assembled men, but she had no occasion to hurry, for the Spaniards were slow drinkers. [10]
- The steward Gras, who had grown gray in the service of Archias, was standing beside the couch. [10]
- But the valet, who had grown gray in Charles's service, had witnessed still more surprising things, and beheld the presence of royalty bestow strength for performances which even now seemed incomprehensible. [10]
- A fringe of white had grown about his temples in the last two months. [11]
- This it was which had led the high-born dame to cast aside all the vanities and foolishness in which she had grown up, to the end that she might protect a young and oppressed creature whom she truly cared for from an ill fate. [10]
- He said that where his advantage was not concerned, there was ever so much good in Dryfoos, and that if in some things he had grown inflexible, he had expanded in others to the full measure of the vast scale on which he did business. [8]
- Time it was when the leaves were grown Your rose-colour, my queen; Ere the birds to the south had flown, While yet the grass was green. [11]
- The time came when I had grown able to consider the matter with a degree of calmness. [9]
- By what change--by what marvel had she grown into a treasure! [13]
- I realized, then, what a creepy, dull, inanimate horror this land had been to me all these years, and how I had been in such a stifled condition of mind as to have grown used to it almost beyond the power to notice it. [5]
- He had grown weak, Charmian had always been so. [10]
- By six o'clock we were pretty high up in the air, and the view of lake and mountains had greatly grown in breadth and interest. [5]
- Thence the former watched the conflict in which, grown grey in the arts of peace, he shared only with his heart and soul. [10]
- The only question was whether it had not already grown too late for him to visit her and her father, who went to bed with the chickens. [10]
- Her only fault was that she had not grown with him, and surely he could not reproach her with that. [6]
- When grown, it was often with difficulty that our mother persuaded her to attend a ball, while Martha's eyes sparkled joyously when there was a dance in prospect; and yet the tall and slender Paula looked extremely pretty in a ball dress. [10]
- To me he was Nick Temple grown to manhood. [9]
- His brown beard was grown like a bramble patch, his eye had a violet light, and his hunting shirt was in tatters. [9]
- The maiden's brow was grave and thoughtful, the lips firmly set; but she seemed to Dido to have grown, and to have gained something of her mother's mature dignity. [10]
- As the master was at the market, the strangers were led by the steward, an old servant grown grey in the service of Theopompus, into the Andronitis, and begged to wait there until he returned. [10]
- Martha, the eldest, was already a grown young lady, but so sweet and kind that we never feared a rebuff from her; and her friends, too, liked us little ones. [10]
- And indeed it was a noble and joyful sight as they stood there, the old man and the young one, both of powerful and stalwart build, both grown strong in wind and weather, and true and trustworthy men. [10]
- It had grown warmer and was beginning to snow heavily. [10]
- Janet had grown warm at the mention of Ditmar's name. [9]
- He is the ward of the generations that have grown up since he was in the vigor of maturity. [6]
- Nil admirari is very well for a North American Indian and his degenerate successor, who has grown too grand to admire anything but himself, and takes a cynical pride in his stolid indifference to everything worth reverencing or honoring. [6]
- She had grown very dear to my heart. [10]
- He had grown very avaricious in his old age, and used to go off stealthily to hunt for non-existent and impossible gold among those perilous peaks and precipices. [5]
- From their lofty vantage-ground the giants Gog and Magog, the ancient guardians of the city, contemplated the spectacle below them with eyes grown familiar to it in forgotten generations. [5]
- It is no valid objection to this conclusion that animals suddenly supplied with an excess of food, or when grown very fat; and that most plants on sudden removal from very poor to very rich soil, are rendered more or less sterile. [1]
- I've never got used to automobiles," he remarked to Hodder, "and I formerly went to church in the street-cars, but the distances have grown so great--and I have occasionally been annoyed in them. [9]
- Refreshments were served us, among which were some hot-house peaches, ethereally delicate as if they had grown in the Elysian Fields and been stolen from a banquet of angels. [6]
- Irene had grown up under her eye, sheltered by her care, in the sunshine of her love. [10]
- We have grown up together like the ivy and wild vine on the wall, and cannot part. [10]
- He had grown up to idleness. [9]
- He had grown up out of sympathy with his father, but he had never until now began to analyze the reasons for it. [9]
- She had grown up in antagonism with all that surrounded her. [6]
- She had grown up free from care among a number of brothers and sisters. [10]
- He had grown up beside another hearth than his parents', yet the latter is the only true home for youth. [10]
- Henrica had grown up among her father's boon companions, amid the clinking of glasses and hunting-shouts, Maria in a grave burgher household, and what they told each other seemed like tidings from a strange world. [10]
- Maria had grown up amid the battle for freedom, and knew how to estimate the grave importance of the tidings her husband had received. [10]
- You have grown until you have taken possession of--of what is left of me. [9]
- She is nearly twelve years of age, and is sufficiently well grown for her years. [4]
- He took a turn up and down the room, stopped suddenly, and stared at her with eyes that had grown smaller. [9]
- This I would trust to no one but myself; for now, grown stronger, I had the old spring in my blood, and I had also a good wish that my plans should not go wrong through the bungling of others. [11]
- Can it be true that there can be no more playing with life, that now I am grown up, that on me now lies a responsibility for my every word and deed? [2]
- Whoever divides two trees which have grown from a single root, she said to herself, destroys at least one; but she would live, would be happy on the highest summit of existence. [10]
- Natasha, who was treated as though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the same time felt shy. [2]
- In one thin, translucently white hand he held a handkerchief, while with the other he stroked the delicate mustache he had grown, moving his fingers slowly. [2]
- It was as tranquil as formerly, and apparently had neither grown nor diminished in size. [5]
- Showing that the town has grown in sympathy with human needs and eccentricities, and is not the work of a surveyor, the streets are irregular, forming picturesque angles and open spaces. [4]
- Becky cried, and Tom tried to think of some way of comforting her, but all his encouragements were grown threadbare with use, and sounded like sarcasms. [5]
- She had been told nothing except that thieves had attacked her granddaughter, Barine, and slightly wounded her lover; but her own heart and the manner of the husband, at whose side she had grown grey, showed that many things were being concealed. [10]
- You must talk to me as if I were a man, a grown man, if you mean to teach me anything. [6]
- He had grown to love the room. [9]
- It is enough to look out upon the magnificent night; the moon is now high, and swinging clear and distant; the air has grown chilly; the stars cannot be eclipsed by the greater light, but glow with a chastened fervor. [4]
- Formerly I used to listen to report with interest, and a certain credulity; but I am now grown deaf and sceptical: experience has taught me how absolutely devoid of foundation her stories may be. [14]
- He had grown to like Pierre, as the latter had come in course to respect him. [11]
- Lali had grown to like Mrs. Townley, and when they parted she spoke a few words quickly in her own tongue, and then immediately was confused, because she remembered that she could not be understood. [11]
- It is unsafe to let the lock rust; for, if once it has grown stiff, when we want to open it no pulling and wrenching will avail. [10]
- If you want to know how perfectly ridiculous a grown man looks performing such absurdities in the presence of ladies, get one to try it. [5]
- No road led to it--only a path up from the green of the village, winding past a gulley and the deep cuts of old rivulets now over grown by grass or bracken. [11]
- I shall speak to him myself," said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this little Natasha as grown up. [2]
- His face seemed to have shriveled or melted; his features had grown smaller. [2]
- His face seemed to have grown older by years on the moment. [11]
- Time itself seemed to have grown dull and old, as if no day were ever to displace the melancholy night. [12]
- Joshua's frame, inured to fatigues of every kind, resisted the tortures of this hurried march; but his weaker companion, who had grown grey in a scribe's duties, often gave way and at last lay prostrate beside him. [10]
- She had ceased to cry out: she was as one grown numb under torture; occasionally a convulsive shudder shook her. [9]
- These expressions come to be the algebraic symbols of minds which have grown too weak or indolent to discriminate. [6]
- Virginia had grown to be the "livest" town, for its age and population, that America had ever produced. [5]
- It had grown to a head with revolution and conspiracy. [11]
- Have you grown tired of Zorrillo? [10]
- And at that time of all others the fact came up to me with irresistible humour that I, a young colonial Whig, who had grown up to detest these people, should be rubbing noses with them. [9]
- The daughter of Thurston Gore, with all her astuteness and real estate, was of a naivete in regard to spiritual matters that Hodder had grown to recognize as impermeable. [9]
- In two or three weeks I had grown wonderfully fascinated with the curious new country and concluded to put off my return to "the States" awhile. [5]
- Buried in his thoughts, now calm and determined, with a new life grown up in him, a new strength different from the mastering force which gave him a strength in the theatre like one in delirium, he noticed nothing. [11]
- I had not thought--h'm--blind old bat that I am--I had not thought she was grown such a lady. [11]
- Often had she thought of Peter Erwin, and it is not too much to say that he had insensibly grown into an ideal. [9]
- There were all those wonderful diagrams over which the reader may have grown dizzy,--just such as one finds on the walls of lunatic asylums,--evidences to all sane minds of cerebral strabismus in the contrivers of them. [6]
- The enthusiasm of this philosopher has grown with his years, and outlived his endurance: we carried our own knapsacks and supplies, therefore, and drew upon him for nothing but moral reflections and a general knowledge of the wilderness. [4]
- But together with this mental change he has grown physically much weaker. [2]
- But I don't think Mr. Bentley has grown a bit older. [9]
- Natasha had grown thin and pale and physically so weak that they all talked about her health, and this pleased her. [2]
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