SEED in a Sentence

Learn SEED 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.
125 example sentences for SEED, such as:
1. Thought is the seed of action.
2. Every seed is a potential plant.
3. Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
4. She would plant one seed in the blank wall.
5. Ah ain never seed ha'r dat color in mah life.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SEED
seed
 n.  anything that provides inspiration for later work
 v.  go to seed; shed seeds
Classic Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
1  He wanted to get the feeling of it into his hand, so that it would sleep there like a seed in winter.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  The sight of Tom Slattery dawdling on his neighbors' porches, begging cotton seed for planting or a side of bacon to "tide him over," was a familiar one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Corn and cotton seed for next spring's planting, and new clothes too.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  Spring plowing was at its height and the cotton and garden seed Pork had brought from Macon was being put into the ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  Pork had been almost worthless since the trip, so proud was he of returning safely with his wagon-load of dress goods, seed, fowls, hams, side meat and meal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  I'll send Pork to Macon tomorrow to buy more seed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  She asked to buy seed corn from them and they promised it and fell to discussing farm problems.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  They had all made her welcome at Mimosa and had insisted on giving, not selling, her the seed corn.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  Ain never seed a proper cah'ige in dere lives.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  Ah ain never seed ha'r dat color in mah life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  Ah nebber in mah life seed sech trashy niggers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
12  His wife, she call me 'Mister' fust time she seed me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
13  Ah has seed you do a heap of things dat would hu't Miss Ellen, did she know.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
14  "You is de wustes' boy Ah ever seed," she said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
15  She would plant one seed in the blank wall.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  Thought is the seed of action.
2  Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
3  Some seed varieties germinate fast, so check every day or so.
4  Farmers will be able to seed it directly, rather than having to transplant seedlings.
5  In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
6  In hot weather lettuces can suddenly run to seed.
7  Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
8  Every seed is a potential plant.
9  After the harvest, the peasants began to prepare the soil for seed.
10  Growing plants from seed can produce disappointing results.
11  In the spring I use the rake to make a good seed bed.
12  The truth in conscience is immediately near to me, as near as the seed that rests upon the wayside.
13  This fruit has a large seed and minimum amount of pulp.
14  As corn plants mature, seed companies hire crews of mostly students at about $8 an hour to remove the tops—called the tassel.
15  Early mistakes are the seeds of future trouble.