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Example sentences for: grew

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The story notes that the state data dovetails with the Commerce Department report issued Friday, indicating that the nation's gross domestic product grew 6.1 percent in the fourth quarter.
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.”
When I grew up, on the Canadian Prairies, my teachers were mostly WASP and had a hard time spelling or pronouncing my name.
The business grew and eventually, he was helping thousands nationwide.
The number of abortions among unmarried women grew from roughly 100,000 a year in the late 1960s (compared with some 322,000 out-of-wedlock births) to more than 1.2 million a year (compared with 715,000 out-of-wedlock births) in the early 1980s.