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Example sentences for: grew

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All four finalists in the recent Olympic men's beach-volleyball championship (as well as two members of America's other top-ranked men's team and two from the most successful U.S. women's team) grew up playing on California's spectacular public beaches.
With the arrival of the railways in the mid-1800s, the city grew almost exponentially as new lines led to the spread of Victorian suburbs such as Marchmont and Morningside.
Jerusalem grew, surrounded with a formidable wall and defended by towers beside the Jaffa Gate.
As I grew older, I realized more and more that Purdue isn't just a state institution; it is a public university.
(Some years ago, there was a brief article in the newspaper about a woman from Texas who had adopted a Mexican infant, and was studying Spanish, so that she would be able to speak to the child when it grew up.