Sentence examples for grew upon from inspiring English sources

Dozens of words, none of them synonymous, described the look of a hill, the angle of slope and the way trees grew upon it.

It grew upon me that I ought to walk out to the horizon and see what the end of the world was like".

An impression grew upon me, as I made my way through these obdurate old texts, that to the ancient Hebrews God was simply a word for what was: a universe often beautiful and gracious but also implacable and unfathomable.

After the death of Gatsby, it is left to Nick to phone round and organise his funeral ("it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested").

The microstructural imagery collected on the Smithsonian Castle varnish offers no evidence for microbial entombment in Mn oxide, and the organisms observed on the surface (Fig. 14) grew upon the varnish and therefore may not be related to Mn oxidizing microbes.

Big Sean -- whose legal name is Sean Anderson -- grew upon the west side of Detroit, near 6 Mile and Livernois.

As a group, ferns are either terrestrial or epiphytic (growing upon another plant).

He describes the landlord who, admiring his fields, consumes in his imagination "the whole harvest that grows upon them".

Epiphyte, also called air plant, any plant that grows upon another plant or object merely for physical support.

"I find the Carlophilipemanuelbachomania grow upon me so, that almost everything else is insipid to me," wrote an English enthusiast in 1774.

Later, he was to call that book "a symbol of the anti-imperialism which had been growing upon me more and more in my last years in Ceylon".