Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use bud in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Bud means a newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. Example: “After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.”

Examples of bud by meaning

nounA newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.

  • After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.
  • Among Turks, pills consisting of hemp buds, muscat nuts, saffron, and honey were a popular aphrodisiac.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 113

nounA small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new...

  • In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.

nounCannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.

  • You got any buds?

nounMarijuana.

  • Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?

verbTo form buds.

  • The trees are finally starting to bud.

verbTo reproduce by splitting off buds.

  • Yeast reproduces by budding.

verbTo begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

  • Seeds of dissent were budding among the recruits.

verbTo put forth as a bud.

  • Once, he was put on a course of potent hormone pills, coming off them when he woke up one morning to discover he was budding breasts2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian

More sentences with bud

  • Leaf buds grew on the trees with the advance of spring.From the entry grow
  • My first time toking up was out of a plastic water bottle with bud lodged in the cap.From the entry toke up
  • The leaf buds of the plane tree are subpetiolar.From the entry subpetiolar
  • The bud of the morning glory is contortuplicate.From the entry contortuplicate
  • My fruit trees are in bud.From the entry in
  • A plant shoots out a bud.From the entry shoot
  • The bud blasted in the blossom.From the entry blast
  • If you see a bad habit begin to develop, try to nip it in the bud so that it does not become ingrained.From the entry nip in the bud
  • This population of cells continues to codistribute closely with venous elements and remains excluded from a vascular regions in the developing wing bud.From the entry codistribute
  • These myths need to be nipped in the bud before they become conventional wisdom.2020 July 1, Christian Wolmar, “Jumping on the slavery bandwagon... but the facts don't stack up”, in Rail, page 66. From the entry nip in the bud
  • Gotti kisses his teeth and says I only took a little bud.2020, Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was, London: 4th Estate, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry seckle
  • Whence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow, And whence thou mayst bear Apples enow!2016, Alice Morse Earle, Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth, Krill Press via PublishDrive, →ISBN. From the entry clayen
  • It is the principle of nonresistance that distinguishes aikidō from other forms of budō.2013, Wolfgang Dietrich, translated by Wolfgang Sützl and Victoria Hindley, “Budō-aikidō”, in Elicitive Conflict Transformation and the…. From the entry budō
  • And the Diet Coke washed over his taste buds like a mouth-gasm.2012, Nick Santora, Fifteen Digits, →ISBN. From the entry mouth-gasm
  • The strobilus emerges slowly from its bud then its scales flex open.2009, Claire G. Williams, Conifer Reproductive Biology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN. From the entry strobilus
  • All are in bud but many (not all) of the buds drop off before opening.2001 February 4, slee...@my-deja.com, “Hibiscus indoors”, in rec.gardens (Usenet), message-ID <95jtl1$151$1@nnrp1.deja.com>. From the entry hibisci
  • Asexual reproduction by the production of a bud in place of a sporangium is not uncommon.2000, Peter R. Bell, Alan R. Hemsley, Green Plants: Their Origin and Diversity, page 161. From the entry sporangium
  • The few buds it had at the time fell off long before they were ready to open.1996 July 19, Gwyn Vaughn, “Re: hibiscus show?”, in austin.gardening (Usenet), message-ID <4sp3af$cc2@pentagon.io.com>. From the entry hibisci
  • Streetlamps started to flicker tentatively—yellow buds, intimating the arrival of the full glow.1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Part 11, p. 513. From the entry arrival
  • Small specimens differ from bumelias in having false end buds and in leaf shape.1972, George A. Petrides, A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs, page 192. From the entry bumelia
  • Bud swelled his chest and laid his hand on Jeff′s shoulder.1921, B. M. Bower, Cow Country, published 2004, page 79. From the entry piker
  • What made it grow from a tiny bud to a full-blown bloom?1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The God of Tarzan”, in Jungle Tales of Tarzan. From the entry full-blown
  • For this was unpermissible, foolish, dangerous, and he meant to stop it in the bud.1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo. From the entry unpermissible
  • "No," said the tender old man, "no, bud h-I am positeef dad de Madjor will shood you."1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days. From the entry shood
  • Bud Light replaces Marketing VP behind Dylan Mulvaney partnership.2023, Ian Miller, OutKick. From the entry behind
  • As soon as the trees start bursting into pink buds, the first strawberries can’t be far behind at the farmers market.2022 May 9, Casey Barber, “Strawberry season has arrived. Here are tips for enjoying spring’s sweetest treat”, in CNN, archived from the…. From the entry strawberry
  • The recent end-Permian mass extinction struck as chroniosuchians were beginning to diversify, and it has nipped them in the bud.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 164. From the entry chroniosuchian
  • There are many gender-neutral terms to address a group: folks, you all, people, team, friends, scholars, buds, epic humans—take your pick.[2022 November/December, Regie Marie Plana-Alcuaz, “Catch your language”, in Teacher, British Columbia Teachers’ Federation, page 9…. From the entry theydies and gentlethems
  • Don’t boof your buds to get high, dude.2017 September 26, Herbert Fuego, “Ask a Stoner: Can I Boof My Weed?”, in Denver Westword. From the entry boof
  • Some narcomedusae develop as parasitic stolons in or on other jellyfish species; young medusae are budded from these stolons.2016, Lisa-Ann Gershwin, “Battering ram jellies”, in Jellyfish: A Natural History, page 84. From the entry narcomedusa
  • The maple syrupy smell that bacon inexplicably has when cooked on an open fire stimulated her taste buds.2016, Arnold Logan, Springtime in Lawrence Park, Toronto, Ont.: Fire and Ash Publishers, →ISBN, page 170. From the entry maple syrupy

Meaning of bud

  1. noun A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
  2. noun Something that has begun to develop.
  3. noun A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.

Full definition of bud

Questions about bud in a sentence

How do you use bud in a sentence?
Bud is used as a noun and verb. For example: “After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.”
What is a short sentence with bud?
“Yeast reproduces by budding.”
What does bud mean?
Bud means a newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bud (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use bud in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/bud. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.