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sprouted

[ US /ˈspɹaʊtɪd/ ]
[ UK /spɹˈa‍ʊtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of growing vegetation) having just emerged from the ground
    the corn is sprouted

How To Use sprouted In A Sentence

  • People in the mountains remain vulnerable with the winter closing in and there are also fears of disease spreading in squalid tent settlements that have sprouted in the towns.
  • My green onion plant, that had sprouted six inches, suddenly wilted and died.
  • By the 1960s, whites too had become avid fans of township jazz, which had sprouted into kwela's instrumental music and mbaqanga, a vocal jazz style.
  • Each window sprouted a flag and blue metal mesh shutter. The Tribes Triumphant
  • Corporate funding was pumped into new buildings that sprouted up on the Belfield campus.
  • Alongside them sprouted multitudinous single-issue groups, from vegetarian societies to trade unions, women's groups, and colonialist lobbies.
  • Tiny pockets of purple lavender sprouted hopefully from cracks in the baked earth. Times, Sunday Times
  • And for good reason there is even less hope among the civil societies that have sprouted in country after country, even in the seemingly least fertile of soils, that China will help Africa democratize, which is a key to the continent's future. Howard W. French: Obama and Africa: The Change We Have Been Waiting For?
  • Tiny pockets of purple lavender sprouted hopefully from cracks in the baked earth. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nineteen film funds have sprouted in Korea this year alone, helping reinvigorate the local industry.
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