beanstalk
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of beanstalk
Example Sentences
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Perhaps a beanstalk will grow to the clouds and an adventure with giants will ensue.
From Literature
Recovered memory cases had been “sprouting up like beanstalks,” but “once the reversal happened, everyone reanalyzed it,” Franklin’s attorney said.
From Los Angeles Times
Unfortunately, aiming a magical beanstalk wasn’t the easiest thing in the world to do.
From Literature
Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, has likened surging productivity to “magic beanstalk beans for the economy. … You can have faster income increases, faster wage growth, faster GDP without generating inflation.’
From Seattle Times
A gigantic beanstalk grows out of a medieval peasant’s posterior, and another peasant says, “I told you they were magic beans and not to eat them.”
From New York Times
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