Example Sentences

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The declarative dialogue, some of the riper acting from the bit-parters – they feel as though they're hand-me-downs from older art forms, like oral storytelling, that Nollywood has budded out of.

From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2012

The antisprawl design movement emphasizing small homes, spaced tightly in walkable communities, has budded in cities, suburbsand now small towns.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The flower that has budded from a deep sacramental life."

From Time Magazine Archive

Let's see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower.

From The World English Bible (WEB): Song of Solomon by Anonymous

But the convolvulus has budded and bloomed and closed again while you thought her still, and she dies—the rayed and rosy cup so full of airy sweetness—she dies in a day.

From Gone to Earth by Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith