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As you approach Kendal, the constituency's main town, orange Liberal Democrat signs declaring "Tim Farron – winning here" sprout from dry stone walls alongside others for the Conservative candidate, Ann Myatt, a local hospital consultant.
For most of the Jones clan, beer is the poison of choice, but one of the family takes a more DIY approach: "Cucumber wine, cauliflower champagne, brussels sprout whisky.
They show spectacular variety in shape, shade and the angle at which they sprout from our gums.
His "natural history of innovation" provides a taxonomy of seven ways in which new ideas can sprout from old ones.
When water is added to a soil that is still rich with the seeds of the plants that once lived there, those seeds should sprout and grow.
Each chapter uses the life and experiences of a "single sprout ", as she calls them, to enliven a larger story.The central question is what developing an idea of children in the singular has done to Chinese society; what happens when those one-and-onlies, so long the sole focus of their parents' and grand-parents' love, attention and expectations, go out into the world.
Three decades of effort have been expended on string theory, which includes gravity but at the expense of having the universe inelegantly sprout hidden dimensions.
FSA groups sprout again as soon as the firefighting squads move on to bash the next rebellious town, prolonging a game of whack-a-mole: as one insurgent pocket is squashed, another pops up.
Vivendi's alleged wrongdoing relied on false accounting, inadequate disclosure and the use of complex deals between entities in a huge international group.Let Brussels sprout ?To get reliable access to international financial markets and to regain investors' confidence, big companies in Italy and other European countries shaken by corporate scandal need to adopt better standards of governance.
Land was made private, state dinosaurs sold off or killed, small businesses allowed to sprout , and politics and religion freed.
Today the land he freed forms a new business district, where snazzy towers sprout from the ruins of old factories.Some textiles clans have since lived off their property.
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The primary grammatical function of "sprout" is as both a verb , describing the action of beginning to grow, and as a noun , referring to the new growth itself. Ludwig AI confirms its correct and versatile usage in various contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
