Sentence examples for hobby grew from inspiring English sources

The hobby grew so consuming that it was known in Victorian times as orchidelirium, because a sort of mania seized collectors.

At 24, she began drafting and collecting quilt patterns on index cards; her hobby grew into the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns (1979) and Encyclopedia of Applique (1993), twin compendiums of pieced (4,216) and appliquéd (1,795) quilt patterns, based on quilt collections and published sources from roughly 1800 to 1970.

The hobby grew into a vocation.

The hobby grew out of desperation.

As the hobby grew serious, Stanley Grinstein co-founded.

Maybe your hobby grew into a skill ― one that helped you meet like-minded people.

Jean Chretien's favourite hobby growing up was beating the shit out of people.

Ms. Dennings, who lists knitting and painting as hobbies, grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs as Katherine Litwack, the youngest of five children; her mother is a speech therapist turned full-time poet and her father is a molecular pharmacologist.

Hobbies: growing mistletoe, rune making (wood).

When Commander Venus broke up, Oberst and his friends decided to form their own label, which started out almost as a hobby but grew into a real business.

His hobby soon grew into something more serious.