GREW in a Sentence

Learn GREW from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
262 example sentences for GREW, such as:
1. He grew up in a wealthy family.
2. Lilacs grew against the side wall.
3. The vigorous young plants grew fast.
4. Then the situation grew less strained.
5. He found that his extremities grew cold.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GREW
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He mounted School House Hill at her side and walked on in silence till they reached the lane leading to the saw-mill; then the need of some definite assurance grew too strong for him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Then the room grew perfectly black, and not a sound was audible but Zeena's asthmatic breathing.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
3  Then the situation grew less strained.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
4  Ethan's long strides grew more rapid with the accelerated beat of his thoughts, and as he reached the foot of School House Hill he caught sight of Hale's sleigh in the distance.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  The lawn, reclaimed from weeds, grew thick with clover and Bermuda grass, and Gerald saw to it that it was well kept.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  She knew that from childhood playmates grew beaux in later years, and the first duty of a girl was to get married.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  To this end, Ellen and Mammy bent their efforts, and as Scarlett grew older she became an apt pupil in this subject, even though she learned little else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  As the boards shuddered under her weight, the soliloquy she had been muttering in the front hall grew louder and louder, coming clearly to the ears of the family in the dining room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  Mammy pulled and jerked vigorously and, as the tiny circumference of whalebone-girdled waist grew smaller, a proud, fond look came into her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  Some time dragged by while the sun grew hotter, and Scarlett and others looked again toward India.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  He stood alone, since Mr. Wilkes had left his side, and had uttered no word as the conversation grew hotter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  But during the years before Gerald married Ellen, the tiny settlement, twenty-five miles north of Tara, slowly grew into a village and the tracks slowly pushed northward.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  Born of a railroad, Atlanta grew as its railroads grew.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  From the two he loved best, Charles had received no toughening influences, learned nothing of harshness or reality, and the home in which he grew to manhood was as soft as a bird's nest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  The real seriousness of the matter grew on her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  One afternoon, I grew bored and actually fell asleep for a few minutes.
2  The shadows of the trees grew longer as the afternoon went on.
3  He grew more and more bad - tempered as the afternoon wore on.
4  Tall, luxuriant plants grew along the river bank.
5  One solitary tree grew on the mountainside.
6  He grew up in a wealthy family.
7  Lilacs grew against the side wall.
8  There were ripples on the pool as the wind grew stronger.
9  The vigorous young plants grew fast.
10  The problems grew complicated beyond all reason.
11  It grew ever more clear to everyone that the Minister was too reactionary, too blinkered.
12  He found that his extremities grew cold.
13  She grew increasingly nervous as the date of the audition drew closer.
14  The boy's cries grew more frightened at mention of a doctor.
15  When Stephen grew up,he fulfilled his hopes and became a doctor.