Example Sentences

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Our enterprising Gravedigger, a true woman of science, engineers a lizard elixir and regenerates the finger into a long tentacle that eventually demands a body.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Bamboo grows faster than eucalyptus and regenerates like a weed.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2024

At the end of an actor's tenure as the Doctor, the character "regenerates" with somebody else then taking on the extra-terrestrial role.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2023

Using this substance, an injectable hydrogel was developed for "tissue prostheses," which can temporarily fill the gap of the missing muscle/nerve tissues while it regenerates.

From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023

I wipe it away quickly, but it regenerates.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli