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Example sentences for: grew

How can you use “grew” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

With globalization and the telecommunications revolution, and with loosely affiliated but networked adversaries using commercial devices and encryption, the technical impediments to signals collection grew at a geometric rate.
Johnson believed that ugly , which was sometimes spelled oughly , derived from ouph , a variant of elf . Modern experts are satisfied that it grew from Old Norse uggligr `to be feared or dreaded.
He grew up hardscrabble and was crippled in the bloom of his handsome prime!
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.”
It's true that Japan grew faster last year as it emerged from recession, but in 1997 it looks as if the United States will again post faster growth.