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How to use seed in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Seed means any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs. Example: “If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.”

Examples of seed by meaning

nounAny small seed-like fruit.

  • If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.
  • A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3

nounAn amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.

  • The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.

nounSemen.

  • A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.

nounA precursor.

  • the seed of an idea
  • Which idea was the seed (idea)?

nounThe initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position).

  • The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.

nounThe competitor or team occupying a given seed (position).

  • The rookie was a surprising top seed.
  • Serving at deuce and trailing to Germany’s Tamara Korpatsch 5-2 in the first set of their second-round match at the French Open, the Chinese No. 32 seed saw a forehand called out by a line judge.2026 May 28, Charlotte Harpur, “Tamara Korpatsch, Wang Xinyu and the story of the strangest French Open match so far”, in The New York...

nounThe initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system.

  • If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.

noun(by extension) A unique code that acts as a blueprint for generating a specific game world, determining terrain...

  • Seeds are Minecraft's way of generating terrain.2015, Jesse Stay, Thomas Stay, Jacob Cordeiro, Minecraft For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 242

More sentences with seed

  • I started some tomato seeds last spring, but they didn't take.From the entry take
  • This plant's light and fluffy seeds may be borne by the wind to remote islands.From the entry bear
  • Chickpea is valued for its nutritive seeds with high protein content.From the entry chickpea
  • Farmer Jones took a hickey on his soybean crop when the flood washed the seeds away.From the entry hickey
  • More often than not, tomato seeds will sprout even if they are a couple of years old.From the entry more often than not
  • I planted a few seeds and had radishes out the wazoo within a month.From the entry out the wazoo
  • The term 'bean' originally referred to the seed of the broad bean.From the entry broad bean
  • The seeds were adjusted to make sure that there were good pairings for the tennis tournament.From the entry pairing
  • In one shoebox he had a whole collection of seeds he had saved from last year.From the entry shoebox
  • Ellen put grass seed on the lawn with a seed spreader.From the entry spreader
  • When the birds ate the seeds he had planted, the farmer was forced to reseed the field.From the entry reseed
  • The hardware store is gearing up for spring in February with garden supplies and seeds.From the entry gear up
  • The estate's present seed stock comprises seedlings, bulbs and various nuts.From the entry seed stock
  • Sustainable hunting and fishing cares as much for its seed stock as for catch or haul.From the entry seed stock
  • The lemon and the orange are plurilocular fruits, having several divisions containing seeds.From the entry plurilocular
  • The caterpillars of the rice moth feed on dry plantstuffs such as seeds.From the entry plantstuff
  • A micro-enterprise is defined as a company or business having 5 or fewer employees and a low seed capital.From the entry enterprise
  • The rand function generates a random number from a seed.From the entry random
  • Seeds of dissent were budding among the recruits.From the entry bud
  • She bedecked her wedding gown with seed pearls.From the entry bedeck
  • I raked the soil then distributed grass seed.From the entry distribute
  • Once the seed tray is filled with compost, insert the seeds spaced 3 cm apart from one another.From the entry compost
  • It seems to me that "grass seed capital of the world" is a fairly shaky claim to fame.From the entry claim to fame
  • We sowed the seeds, broadcasting with a rotary spreader.From the entry broadcasting
  • Winged helicopter seeds fall with rapid flutters to the ground.From the entry flutter
  • The seeds of many of the Euphorbiaceae are coleopteroid.From the entry coleopteroid
  • What do you plant to grow seedless grapes? Actually, they have seeds, but they are quite edible by humans.From the entry seedless
  • He put next year's reserved seed on one side.From the entry one side
  • Perennial ryegrass is an important species for lawn seed mixes.From the entry ryegrass

Meaning of seed

  1. noun Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
  2. noun A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
  3. noun Any small seed-like fruit.

Full definition of seed

Questions about seed in a sentence

How do you use seed in a sentence?
Seed is used as a noun and verb. For example: “If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.”
What is a short sentence with seed?
“the seed of an idea”
What does seed mean?
Seed means any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seed (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.

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