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The word "sprouting" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it when referring to the emergence of new plants or shoots from a seed, root, or other parts of a plant. For example: "The seeds were sprouting and new leaves were visible in a few days."
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sprouting
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Present participle of sprout
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You see it in the physical infrastructure: all those new flyovers sprouting up around the city to enable the chauffeur driven classes to get about more easily, even while the commuter trains are still bursting; the crowded, chaotic public hospitals that get by while gleaming new private hospitals open up.
So far, Soares estimates, they have distributed more than 80 tonnes of ugly produce, attracting the attention of Jamie Oliver and his team, with similar schemes sprouting up in other countries.
We have only the report of her ejection, and the questions – questions sprouting like daffodils.
The only signs of life are the sheep from a local farm that graze on the weeds sprouting up through the Tarmac path that runs from the gates to the mine-head.
With sanctions against Iran, smuggling has supplied the Dubai-style malls sprouting up.
Palatial mansions are sprouting in the capital, Tegucigalpa, and in the Bay Islands.
Cynics suggested this could help explain a sudden crackdown by the minister of defence, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who is the Labour Party chairman, on unapproved new settlements that have been sprouting up on the West Bank.
The heavy use of three-strikes in drug-possession cases seems largely, though not entirely, to blame for this.In this section Abortion less on demand A little more like angels It needed a bit of tidying up How to be a green rancher No surrender Sprouting again Dick Gephardt's inflation ReprintsDespite the uncertainties, the three-strikes law imposes the maximum sentence regardless.
ATHLETES competing in this year's Commonwealth Games held in Delhi will travel to the stadium along the Barapullah Elevated Road, one of many transport projects sprouting up in India's capital city.
He has denied the charges, but such scrutiny is unprecedented.Citizens' initiatives are sprouting, with local councils and firms accused of corruption and overcharging for municipal services.
Nor would independent Scots face the prospect of barbed wire, border posts and watchtowers sprouting along some latter-day Hadrian's Wall.
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