Grown-out-of Sentence Examples

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  • If she hadn't grown out of it in twenty-one years, she wasn't likely to.

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  • It wasn't something either of them wanted to do, but the situation had grown out of control.

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  • But the tomato, a berry grown out of its natural proportion by the fiddling of man, at least knew redness was its ultimate goal.

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  • All these older methods have, however, been thrown into the background and rendered antiquated by inventions which have grown out of Hertz's scientific investigations on the production of electric waves.

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  • In the case of some of these legends - as those of Sunah-Sepha, and the fetching of Soma from heaven - we can even see how they have grown out of germs contained in some of the Vedic hymns.

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  • Wordsworth's theories of poetry - the objects best suited for poetic treatment, the characteristics of such treatment and the choice of diction suitable for the purpose - may be said to have grown out of the soil and substance of the lakes and mountains, and out of the homely lives of the people, of Cumberland and Westmoreland.

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  • It appears to have grown out of another scarcely less celebrated work, upon which Machiavelli had been engaged before he took the Principe in hand, and which he did not finish until some time afterwards.

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  • But the connexion of the god with Puoni may have grown out of the fact that dwarf dancers were especially brought to Egypt from Ethiopia and Puoni.

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  • The first regular catechisms seem to have grown out of the usual oral teaching of catechumens, and to have been compiled in the 8th and 9th centuries.

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  • He designed his geography as a sequel to his historical writings, and it had as it were grown out of his historical materials, which were chiefly Greek.

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  • The first suggestion for a machine of the above kind seems to have grown out of the invention of Volta's electrophorus.

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  • Business worries, however, interrupted him; it was found necessary to reconstruct the company owing to its having grown out of proportion with the existing division of profit and labour.

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  • Both these divine figures have grown out of Vedic conceptions - the genial Vishnu mainly out of a not very prominent solar deity of the same name; whilst the stern Siva, i.e.

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  • One of the customs which has grown out of our peculiar system of weights is the form of statement of the results of such an assay.

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  • The earth, as a rule, is supposed to have grown out of some original matter, perhaps an animal, perhaps an egg which floated on the waters, perhaps a fragment of soil fished up out of the floods by a beast or a god.

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  • Among people a little more advanced, the earth is presumed to have grown out of the waters.

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  • Since he had grown out of the toddling stage, he and I had become very close.

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  • When your child was just a baby, he might have grown out of many of his outfits before he could wear them more than once or twice.

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  • As children grow so quickly, a quality pair of cargo pants will often have a lot of life left in them once the boy for whom they were bought has grown out of them.

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  • Since Gymboree offers clothing for children up to the age of 12, once you've started buying Gymboree clothing, you may well find that your children remain with the brand until they've physically grown out of it.

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  • This is the only bushy Coronilla that can be well grown in the open air in England, but in mild districts C. glauca, a beautiful shrub with glaucous foliage and yellow flowers, usually grown in greenhouses, may be grown out of doors.

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  • Viburnum Odoratissimum - As a rule, when grown out of doors this is given a place on a wall, as it is not hardy in all winters.

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  • They are found at elevations sufficiently high to admit of their being grown out of doors in England, or at any rate in the warmer parts of the country, and yet the Mutisias are scarcely known in our gardens.

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  • A soil which is naturally peaty is no doubt the best, but not essential; they may be grown out of doors in loam either light or moderately stiff so long as lime is absent, and with plenty of leaf mould.

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  • Tassel Tree (Acacia) - Beautiful shrubs and trees, thriving in warmer countries, but a few grown out of doors do well in parts of England.

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  • Think about how your new purchases will go with the pants and other clothing your child has from the summer rather than trying to build a bunch of cute outfits that will cost you more money and just get stained or grown out of rapidly.

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  • Mexican folkloric dance is an art form that has grown out of centuries of tradition and hybrid choreography.

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  • There are various superstitions that have grown out of this symbol for happiness.

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  • The name is somewhat misleading, because there's a lot of functionality that has grown out of the relatively innocuous little symbol.

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