Sentence examples for grow higher than from inspiring English sources

In late summer and through the fall, the cemetery usually is a jungle of dense brush and gnarled weeds that grow higher than the gravestones and obscure the recognizable surnames engraved on them.

Cuba's national flower is the mariposa ("butterfly"; Hedychium coronarium Koenig), whose long, green stems can grow higher than 5 feet (1.5 metres) and produce fragrant, white, butterfly-like petals.

Trees in the Everglades, including wild tamarind (Lysiloma latisiliquum) and gumbo-limbo (Bursera simaruba), rarely grow higher than 50 feet due to wind, cold weather, and lightning strikes.

Within 3 months after germination, plant development stopped and the seedlings did not grow higher than 150 mm, progressively degenerating with time.

Dryas octopetala often does not grow higher than few centimetres over the ground, and usually occurs as individuals that can vary in size from a few centimetres to over a metre in diameter.

Once the yams have fully developed, low light levels on the ground will not affect them because the stems grow higher than the surrounding trees and the leaves are well spread.

The grass and weeds grew higher than my head, and I saw that someone had cleared a plot among them and planted a little vegetable garden.

Their home was a farm in southwestern Pennsylvania; the marriage broke up when Jofie was four, in part because his mother didn't like the fact that the marijuana was growing higher than the corn.

The UN allowed Savimbi to play for time with numerous meaningless negotiations in various capi tals while its supply planes were shot at, cities besieged, hundreds of thousands of people fled from Unita, and the death toll from starvation and mines grew higher than ever.

That is, they are presumed to be capable of growing higher than the blue sky.

Bitergia, a company that analyzes free, libre and open-source software projects, gathered data on the development of WebKit in a new report, showing that the share of reviewed commits coming from parties other than Apple and Google is at 25percentt and growing, higher than it has been in the past.