Example Sentences

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Stories multiply like toadstools in forest loam in the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, America’s most devout skeptic of the narrative urge, yet also one of its greatest exponents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

It doesn’t take long for the bigger cabbages to look like bolted toadstools on steroids.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2023

Mycelium, like yeast, molds and toadstools, are neither animals nor plants.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2023

The toadstools live in harmony with trees, helping the likes of oak, beech, birch and pine absorb water and nutrients.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2020

I regarded this as a fairy-tale farm as surely imagined as gnomes sitting under toadstools.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck