Example Sentences

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The idea eventually is that these modules will bud off on their own to become a fully private LEO destination just before the ISS is retired.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2022

But how does one go about creating a perfectly good enmity, one that will bud and flower and last?

From Time Magazine Archive

But a bok- anovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

"When a god wishes to ride, every chip and stone will bud and shoot out winged feet to carry him," and it is hope and faith that give the power of the gods.

From The Life Radiant by Whiting, Lilian

Draw close the curtains   Of branched evergreen; Change cannot touch them   With fading fingers sere: 60 Here the first violets   Perhaps will bud unseen, And a dove, may be,   Return to nestle here.

From Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Rossetti, Christina Georgina