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Example sentences for: grew

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There was a continuing expansion into new country, new districts, new settlements as land was taken up, opened up or, as the pace grew, thrown open (1830).
The ready-made garment industry grew out of altered rejects and secondhand clothing that were then sold to the poorer classes in the cities.
As we grew older we came to realize that cockamamie was merely a child's distortion of decalcomania . Later, cockamamie came to mean `cheap, sleazy, gaudy, trashy, junky'--but never “mixed-up, ridiculous.”
From the neighborhood we grew up in comes the term a Billy Groves , used to describe a glutton, in remembrance of a fat boy who could be heard squealing for a second hamburger or another scoop of ice cream on summer nights when the windows were open.
It wasn't: Once the slack had been taken up, growth slowed again, and over the '80s as a whole the economy actually grew a bit less than it had in the '70s.