Example Sentences

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Yet even though they’ve held a raft of public hearings and workshops on potential new laws and regulations, another plan is germinating behind closed doors.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2024

Her brilliance planted the seed for others like her — daring, uncompromising Black visionaries — to exist, and now that seed is germinating.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2022

It must be too early to ponder whether Hannah the flower lady is germinating from within—and, granted, the show has enough on its plate without another potential Harrison to worry about.

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2012

Other crops have been bountiful; the new U. S. crop is germinating.

From Time Magazine Archive

With this ruling idea, they will take thought for two things that complement each other—for the initial and personal force which is germinating in the child, and for the social destination of this force.

From The Simple Life by Hendee, Mary Louise