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How to use sprout in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Sprout means a new growth of or on a plant, whether from seed or other parts. Example: “Oh my, how your sprouts have grown!”

Examples of sprout by meaning

nounA child.

  • Oh my, how your sprouts have grown!

nounA Brussels sprout.

  • In our family we only eat sprouts once a year, at Christmas.

verbTo grow from seed; to germinate.

  • The crocuses should be sprouting after 2 months, provided they're well tended.

verbTo cause to grow from a seed.

  • I sprouted beans and radishes and put them in my salad.

verbTo deprive of sprouts.

  • to sprout potatoes

verbTo emerge haphazardly from a surface.

  • Whiskers sprouted from the old man's chin.

verbTo emerge or appear haphazardly.

  • A lot of coffee shops have sprouted up in this neighbourhood since the block of flats was put up.
  • In those early years of the 1830s and 1840s, railways were sprouting up all over the country in a haphazard way.2023 August 23, David E Norris, “Joseph Locke: a railway injustice...”, in RAIL, number 990, page 56

More sentences with sprout

  • The sprouting tendency of potatoes varies between cultivars, years and places of growing.From the entry vary
  • From this day forward, there will be no more brussels sprouts at the cafeteria.From the entry forward
  • The wall outlet sprouted an electrical monstrosity of adapters plugged into adapters that sparked ominously.From the entry adapter
  • More often than not, tomato seeds will sprout even if they are a couple of years old.From the entry more often than not
  • Brussels sprouts reach a length of 4 centimeters and resemble clusters of miniature cabbages.From the entry brussels sprout
  • Brussels sprouts get a bad rap: many kids hate them before they ever taste them.From the entry bad rap
  • Many sprouting crops never come to ear.From the entry come to
  • Bean sprouts are a nutritious vegetarian ingredient for stir-fry.From the entry bean sprout
  • The seed is ready to sprout.From the entry ready
  • The valleyside grasses sprout in April.From the entry valleyside
  • We know what’s sprouting, but Mantel’s trilogy lets us imagine that it might all have been different.2020 March 28, Catherine Holmes, “Review: Mantel’s trilogy finale gives us the end of Cromwell’s action-packed life”, in The Post and…. From the entry cross the Styx
  • Any plant that sprouts from the soil surrounding a myrtle coffin will begin producing large red berries.2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 56. From the entry native myrtle
  • Since then, Thai Discos have sprouted up all over the island.2016 November, RICE, “The Secret Business of Thai Disco Agents”, in Rice Media, Rice Media, retrieved 02 Nov 2017. From the entry Thai disco
  • Those are beans, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, broccoli sprout, onion, pepper and citrus.2014, Lyubomyr Yatsyk, How to Lose Belly Fat Fast - The Flat Belly Diet & Exercise Guide. From the entry aerogenesis
  • Seaweed sprouted bright yellows and ochres between the vast webs of fingers.2013, Mary Gentle, Rats and Gargoyles, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry spider
  • My favourite is purple sprouting broccoli, with its nutty, asparagussy flavour, delicate texture and rich colouring.2011, Jane Powers, The Living Garden: A Place That Works With Nature, London, England: Frances Lincoln Limited, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry asparagussy
  • Bustling kopitiams sprouted around derelict whiskey bars like toadstools around rotting logs.2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 23. From the entry kopitiam
  • It had rained in the night, and some of the ocotillo fences had sprouted some green.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 731. From the entry ocotillo
  • I'm wearing baggy jeans, an oversize sweatshirt and a straw hat sprouting a straw daisy.2002 May 19, Paula Ganzi Licata, “An Accidental Gardener Dresses the Part”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry über
  • Henbit typically sprouts in fall, after the soil has been cultivated following the removal of summer plants.1996, Barbara Pleasant, The Gardener's Weed Book: Earth-safe Controls, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry henbit
  • Sympathetolytic agents have been given to suppress the α-adrenergic hypersensitivity of the sprouts.1991, Deafferentation Pain Syndromes: Pathophysiology and Treatment, →ISBN, page 322. From the entry sympathetolytic
  • What is posited as future is just the futureness of a sprout.1990, Daniel Cozort, Unique Tenets of The Middle Way Consequence School: The Systematization of the Philosophy of the Indian Buddhist…. From the entry futureness
  • My sprout, like I'm totally spaced over you and besides I like older women (arh-arh).1986 August 16, “Happy Birthday Doo (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 5, page 13. From the entry space
  • Sproutarians center their lives and diets around live foods, that is, sprouts.1985, Joel Rose, The Vegetarian Connection, page 21. From the entry sproutarian
  • They grow their sprouts at home, thus controlling all aspects of their diet.1985, Joel Rose, The Vegetarian Connection, page 21. From the entry sproutarian
  • On the far side of the larger galaxy a counterarm sometimes sprouts out.1978, Simon Mitton, Exploring the Galaxies, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry counterarm
  • They also destroyed two rows of brussels sprouts seedlings — again after cottoning and spraying.1965, Amateur Gardening - Volume 82, page 199. From the entry cotton
  • She picked up the limp sprout and squeezed her thumb up its tiny stalk.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry ooze
  • Gaudy fungi sprouted from the bark walls of the humpies, which were furred with green slime.1934, Brian Penton, chapter 18, in Landtakers: The Story of an Epoch, Raleigh, NC: Hayes Barton, published 2006, page 120. From the entry ant-bed
  • I'm sure I can exhibit literary talents of a high order, once they are encouraged to sprout.1912, L. Frank Baum, chapter 3, in Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation. From the entry edit
  • He might assure his red cheeks and sprouting moustache in the looking-glass that that fellow, St.1903, Katharine Tynan, A Red, Red Rose, page 150. From the entry muffish
  • The comet begins to melt as it nears the sun, causing the ball of ice to sprout a diffuse tail.2024 October 8, Katrina Miller, “How to See the ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Comet Flaring in Our Night Skies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

Meaning of sprout

  1. noun A new growth of or on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
  2. noun A germinated seed, an incipient young plant.
  3. noun An edible variety of such, grown and intended as food; examples include bean, alfalfa, kale, and others.

Full definition of sprout

Questions about sprout in a sentence

How do you use sprout in a sentence?
Sprout is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Oh my, how your sprouts have grown!”
What is a short sentence with sprout?
“to sprout potatoes”
What does sprout mean?
Sprout means a new growth of or on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sprout (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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