Sentence examples for grew first from inspiring English sources

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He worked only sporadically, sometimes as a pizza deliverer, and he grew first a close-cropped beard and then a flowing one.

Agricultural colonies and cities grew first along the Paraná-Paraguay water route and then along railroads built to serve the quebracho industry.

The population grew, first drawing wealthy industrialists and, later, new suburbanites who whizzed from their homes to postwar factories on the parkways that sliced up the county.

California's huge defence and aerospace industry grew first from the second world war, then from the Korean war and the cold war (and, beyond the scope of this book, finally the Vietnam war).

Still, the search that led him to Sancho grew, first, out of a dearth of available roles: "I wanted to be in a costume drama," he admitted in an op-ed for the Guardian.

And then, after a stunned pause, the applause grew, first from the back of the cathedral, then spreading to the front, as the assorted politicians found themselves rising uncomfortably to the occasion.

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They grow first imperious and in time despotic.

Vegetation cannot decay unless it grows first, and it grew in large part on nutrients supplied by floodwaters.

Their mantra is to grow first and ask questions later.

Crystals then grow first along the "tunnel" direction to form needle-like crystals.

The other theory held that the epidermis grows first, creating a void that the inner layers are obliged to fill.

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