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sown

[ sohn ]

verb

  1. a past participle of sow 1.


sown

/ səʊn /

verb

  1. a past participle of sow 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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  • un·sown adjective
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Example Sentences

World War II is still a long way off, but the seeds of conflict are already being sown on the continent.

Sully decides to face the truth of what his negligence has sown.

The press gets involved, the Twittersphere goes wild, and all the seeds of intractability are sown.

The seeds of Strub's activism were sown as a child, when he snuck out of the house to watch May Day riots in Iowa City.

And thus was sown a seed that may, however extraordinary it may seem, destroy the prime minister.

Thy eye desireth favour and beauty, but more than these green sown fields.

Little Rye was sown, but that little is very good; Barley is suffering from the stormy weather, but is quite thrifty.

The sea was sown with stars, and everywhere breathed and pulsed the beauty of the northern summer night.

That sent to Sind, though said to have been carefully sown, also failed to germinate.

The seed is sown in August, and the seedlings are transplanted in November, the crop arriving at maturity in three or four months.

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