Sentence examples for grow plump from inspiring English sources

Various types of tomatoes grow plump.

WiAnno oysters are cultivated in a protected in calm, protected beach waters, which makes them incredibly clean and quick to grow plump.

Farmers cut them off to encourage the bulbs to grow plumper.

It's a versatile vehicle for other flavours, too – soaked in ale, tea, whisky or orange juice, the fruit quickly grows plump and toothsome.

It isn't surprising that those who have grown plump on the pickings of democracy (such as it is) should now be calling for a police state.

Meanwhile, the frogs thundered through the August nights, and the shiners, a warm-water fish, ranged and reproduced with impunity on the fringes of the pond, growing plump on insects.

Don't we ever learn anything from the past?" At heart "Farm City" is more about Ms. Carpenter's experiences with livestock than it is about growing plump tomatoes.

Moïse, who is twenty-eight when Eberstadt meets him and already growing plump, has "a complicated attitude toward music, as if his own gift lies in a state of untaught purity that might be defiled either by too much use or by exposure to other people's music".

Cafe de Bruxelles on (bonus) Greenwich Avenue is a mussels-and-fries-with-no-ketchup kind of place in the West Village that attracts a crowd of regulars, including a high ratio of adorable elderly couples who look as if they'd have grown plump on the mayonnaisey dip and the crème brûlée tart.

Growing plump in her widowhood, though she was the first to admit she'd never been what you would call thin, she travelled in busloads of retirees — mostly widows, although there was the occasional man or two — only missing a museum trip or a foliage tour or a luncheon (with a cocktail) at this or that historic site or country inn if a grandchild was in need of minding.

As I have been alone for so long, time grows plump.