SEEDS in a Sentence

Learn SEEDS 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 SEEDS, such as:
1. Sow the seeds in late March.
2. Sow the seeds outdoors in spring.
3. The seeds will sprout in a few days.
4. Sow the seeds one inch deep in the soil.
5. The seeds may be sown outdoors in the spring.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SEEDS
seed
 n.  anything that provides inspiration for later work
 v.  go to seed; shed seeds
Classic Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
1  He hopped about and pecked the earth briskly, looking for seeds and insects.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Miss Mary has plenty of money and will you go to Thwaite and buy her some flower seeds and a set of garden tools to make a flower-bed.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  He laughed and came back to the log and began to talk about the flower seeds again.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  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
5  Mary, kneeling by him holding the seeds, looked at him and stopped frowning.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  She was very much interested in the seeds and gardening tools, and there was only one moment when Mary was frightened.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  The seeds Dickon and Mary had planted grew as if fairies had tended them.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  It'll work same as th seeds do when th sun shines on em.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  The moist hungry earth, waiting upturned for the cotton seeds, showed pinkish on the sandy tops of furrows, vermilion and scarlet and maroon where shadows lay along the sides of the trenches.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  The withered stalks of last year's cotton had to be removed to make way for this year's seeds and the balky horse, unaccustomed to the plow, dragged unwillingly through the fields.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
11  You been sendin us money right along and Ashley and me, well, we've paid taxes and bought the mule and seeds and what-all and a few hogs and chickens.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
12  No, Scarlett, the seeds of greatness were never in me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
13  Sickly yellow leaves in a windrow with dried wings of box-elder seeds and snags of wool from the cotton-woods.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  He gave us knives, but no plates, and the top of the table was soon swimming with juice and seeds.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
15  I tied my pony and went into the kitchen where Mrs. Shimerda was baking bread, chewing poppy seeds as she worked.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
Example Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  Early mistakes are the seeds of future trouble.
2  Move the pots outside when the seeds begin to sprout.
3  The seeds need to be completely immersed in water.
4  Sow the seeds one inch deep in the soil.
5  The seeds of friendship were sown early, and they remained lifelong companions.
6  Keep the seeds in warm, damp conditions to encourage germination.
7  The seeds will sprout in a few days.
8  The farmers distributed seeds over the field.
9  The seeds are ground into a fine powder before use.
10  Rich industrialised countries have sown the seeds of global warming.
11  Sow the seeds in late March.
12  He raised questions meant to plant seeds of doubts in the minds of jurors.
13  We sell pots, gloves, seeds and other gardening paraphernalia.
14  Sow the seeds outdoors in spring.
15  The seeds may be sown outdoors in the spring.