Example Sentences

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This year they started early, in March, before things had greened up, which firefighters said added to the fires’ strength.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2021

The rainy season had greened things up and gone—temporarily, of course, for in a day or two it would be on us again in all tropical fury.

From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Franck, Harry Alverson