Sentence examples for planting themselves from inspiring English sources

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Some stagers choose to do the digging and planting themselves, while others work with a landscaper or gardener.

Web shoppers, for example, might much prefer curling up on the couch with something more like a catalog to planting themselves at their desktop computers to shop.

"There are far fewer morality police, it's obvious" he says, adding that their latest tactic is to stealthily patrol the streets rather than planting themselves in a crowded public area.

During the ride through Yellowstone, I found plenty to keep me occupied: agoraphobia-inducing mountains, valleys, and gorges; herds of elk and bison foraging in the pines or rooting in the snowy meadows or planting themselves stolidly in the roadway; pronghorn antelope; ravens; the occasional eagle.

Terry Hands's blunt-witted staging of the canon's fastest-moving tragedy, with the popular television star Kelsey Grammer in the title role, suggests what the barnstorming companies of the 19th century must have been like: potboiler productions emphasizing melodrama over psychology, with stately actors planting themselves like trees at the edge of the stage and declaiming fiercely.

As a child, when her mother, a schoolteacher, and father, a trolley car driver, founded a security guard business, the family moved from a Harlem tenement to a home in the Gun Hill section of the Bronx, integrating a largely white neighborhood and planting themselves firmly in the emerging black middle class.

Mr. Hands's staging of the canon's most compact and fastest-moving tragedy suggests what the barnstorming American companies of the 19th century must have been like: potboiler productions emphasizing melodrama over psychology, with a lot of stately actors planting themselves like trees at the edge of the stage and declaiming fiercely and nobly.

Another development in Spotify's stickiness has been the rise of third-party, web and mobile apps, which have been planting themselves on its platform and growing in use.

And this time, it's not just about setting up a corporate accelerator like Target did and Coca Cola is exploring — instead, technology leaders from Citibank, Proctor & Gamble and Colgate Palmolive are among 50 top executives planting themselves in the front rows of a day-long startup pitching session organized by iSPIRT on Thursday.

From the old money Vanderbilts, to the new politic Kennedys, it is a story of immigrants planting themselves and creating power bases for familial success.

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