Example Sentences

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The rain has come back to average level and the course has greened up — we are pleased with it.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2011

I know all about it, you’ve blued the cats and now the Princess has greened you. 

From The Gray Brethren and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse by Fairless, Michael

The grass has greened up since the rain, and it will be no trick at all to make ten to fifteen tons of hay.

From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Adams, Andy