Example Sentences

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The effect is to make the flowers appear to have germinated as much from the artist’s exertions as from the earth.

From Washington Post • May 20, 2022

Apply it again two weeks later to kill any dormant weed seeds that may have germinated.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2020

The tech hubs of Silicon Beach and Silicon Valley have germinated thousands of start-ups serving every imaginable need of the kinds of people who work at start-ups.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2019

Vocabularies of resistance have germinated among US-based progressives, isolated though each instance remains.

From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2017

Some migration from the spot where the individuals of a species have germinated is an essential provision against extinction.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)