GROWTH in a Sentence

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176 example sentences for GROWTH, such as:
1. True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
2. The company has experienced meteoric growth.
3. The company certainly has the potential for growth.
4. The economic growth dipped to a low point last year.
5. An inward growth seemed to be in progress within him.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of GROWTH
growth
 n.  the gradual beginning or coming forth
 n.  (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had disappeared under a growth of grass.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  The base of the walls all about the well is concealed in a growth of nettles.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
3  It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut stone, with balustrade with a double curve.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
4  It is only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
5  Cloisters, useful in the early education of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious to its development.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
6  There is a material growth; we admit it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW
7  An inward growth seemed to be in progress within him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
8  Nothing in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; venerable growth reigned there among them.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
9  But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock in the virgin forest.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
10  Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
11  In this fray, each one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES
12  The sewer, in fact, receives all the counter-shocks of the growth of Paris.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
13  Cosette's childhood and girlhood, her advent in the daylight, her virginal growth towards life and light, had been sheltered by that hideous devotion.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
14  For some seeking to enlarge their possessions, and some to keep what they have got, wars and enmities ensue, from which result the ruin of one country and the growth of another.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXVII.
15  For if no commonwealth has ever been found to grow like the Roman, it is because none was ever found so well fitted by its institutions to make that growth.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I.
Example Sentence: (124 in 9 pages)
1  The assumptions made about the economy's rate of growth proved to be incorrect.
2  He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
3  The administration may put more emphasis on spurring economic growth.
4  A bad home environment can affect a child's healthy growth.
5  Honesty is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
6  Whale-watching has become a growth leisure industry.
7  True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
8  The economic growth dipped to a low point last year.
9  Man is a born child, his power is the power of growth.
10  The changing size of an infant's head is considered an index of brain growth.
11  The company certainly has the potential for growth.
12  The policy tried to check the exponential growth of public expenditure.
13  This is further complicated by the above-mentioned color changes that occur with growth.
14  Our top priorities must be profit and commercial growth.
15  The company has experienced meteoric growth.