PLANT in a Sentence

Learn PLANT 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.
312 example sentences for PLANT, such as:
1. I'll plant them for thee myself.
2. The roots of this plant go deep.
3. The plant produced a single white bloom.
4. True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
5. You would have to dig up the plant yourself.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PLANT
plant
 v.  fix or set securely or deeply
 n.  an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience
Classic Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
1  I'll plant them for thee myself.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  When Dickon began to clear places to plant seeds, she remembered what Basil had sung at her when he wanted to tease her.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  "Here, lad," he said, handing the plant to Colin.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  And now the boy had to plant and water the garden, hoe and dig, and bear the wind and bad weather.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In IRON HANS
5  We'll fetch you a little one and you plant it in the corner over there, and raise it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII.
6  Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have at this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  There is not a single plant, not a fig tree, vine, olive, pear, nor flower bed, but bears the trace of your attention.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIV
8  By thy first step awry, thou didst plant the germ of evil; but since that moment it has all been a dark necessity.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
9  Passing through rows of ironical eyes, he was drawn as naturally to her loving glance as a plant to the sun.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 24
10  The split-rail fence around the kitchen garden had been demolished and the once orderly rows of green plants had suffered the same treatment as those at Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  Tall clumps of flowering plants were grouped against a background of dark foliage in the angles of the walls.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
12  I bought the flowers from an old German woman who always had more window plants than anyone else, and spent an afternoon trimming a little workbasket.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIII
13  In the yard, which was kept scrupulously neat, were flowers and plants of every description which flourishes in South Louisiana.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
14  And there she stayed, and stooped, digging around the plants, trimming, picking dead, dry leaves.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
15  She went on picking the leaves and digging around the plants with her hat pin.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIII
Example Sentence: (173 in 12 pages)
1  Some soils are actually too alkaline for certain plant life.
2  They eat only plant foods, and take care to exclude animal products from other areas of their lives.
3  Millions of years ago, changes in the Earth's climate caused animal and plant life to diversify.
4  The area is rich in different plant species.
5  The plant has a beautiful bright red flower.
6  True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
7  I want to plant the slopes of the hills with trees of economic value.
8  An explosion at a chemical plant has left one worker dead and four injured.
9  The plant produced a single white bloom.
10  You would have to dig up the plant yourself.
11  Snail is a small plant - eating creature with a soft body.
12  The century plant blooms only once in its lifetime.
13  Check the plant for any visible signs of disease.
14  The roots of this plant go deep.
15  The orchid is a class of plant which I have never tried to grow.