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

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

He stressed that none of the nine patients they checked had spawned a new dangerous variant.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2022

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