spawn
noun
the mass of eggs deposited by fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, etc.
had spawned
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past perfectof spawn.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The Georgia incident had spawned thousands of false threats looping through social media feeds across the country.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025
Her vanishing had spawned conspiracies theories, after she arrived in Los Angeles from Maui on 8 November but never boarded her connection flight to New York to visit her aunt.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2024
To minimize potential harm to native fish, they chose to begin draining the reservoirs in the winter, after adult salmon had spawned and died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024
Up to 65% of the cells in these organs were human, indicating the stem cells had spawned kidney cells in their porcine surroundings.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 7, 2023
Within a few millennia that single ancestral Polynesian society had spawned on those diverse islands a range of diverse daughter societies, from hunter-gatherer tribes to proto-empires.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
