How to Use grow from in a Sentence

grow from

phrasal verb
  • The church’s program added a Friday lunch and has grown from there.
    Lola Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The larger Pro Max's screen will grow from 6.7 to 6.9 inches.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Event grows The event has grown from its beginnings as a Big Green Eggfest.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 6 May 2024
  • Revenues have been doubling year over year, and the team has grown from a one-woman band to a team of 12.
    Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Since then, the number of streets that decorate has grown from just one or two to six.
    Sandhya Kambhampati, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The day has grown from its infancy, when awareness stretched to just a few cities.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The faith, as Daniel explains it, grows from an idea of redemption.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The family’s very identity had grown from the waters of the marsh around it.
    Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Support for both countries has grown from last year, when the US stood at 63% and China at 78%.
    Mohammed Abdelbary, CNN, 21 June 2023
  • The number of months of available home supply grew from just over one month last May to just over two months this May.
    Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 12 June 2023
  • Within a month, her videos grew from a few thousand likes to hundreds of thousands of likes.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • And the foundation has grown from one pillar to four pillars.
    Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 May 2024
  • Over the last few months, that encampment has grown from a handful to more than two dozen people.
    Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
  • In just a century, it’s grown from a nascent crop into a peerless one.
    Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
  • However, that figure grew from 18% last year to 24% this year–from one in five to one in four people.
    Gonzalo Schwarz, Fortune, 4 July 2023
  • The festival has grown from strength to strength, and it’s been a privilege to be part of this adventure.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 June 2024
  • The 76-year-old Land Park business has grown from offering six ice cream flavors to 22.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The group numbers 10 high schoolers so far, growing from five in only one week.
    Linda Gandee, cleveland, 31 July 2023
  • As Cincinnati grew from a river town to a river city, the center shifted.
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2024
  • On average, her per-show gross grew from $2.2 million on that trek, to $4.8 million on this trek.
    Eric Frankenberg, Billboard, 24 July 2024
  • Anthony has had quite the arc since the start of the show, growing from Daphne’s overprotective brother to a man in love.
    Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
  • By 2023, the percentage of staffers of color in the Amherst district had grown from twenty per cent to thirty-four per cent.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Over the years, Straight to Ale grew from just the founders making, packaging and selling their beer to around 100 employees.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • But even with higher rates now in place, Mr. Channel expects the number of Gen Z home buyers to grow from here.
    Kalia Richardson, New York Times, 15 June 2023
  • And the percent of housing units with air conditioning in the San Francisco metro area has grown from 36% to 45% of homes in that time.
    Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 6 July 2024
  • Meanwhile, pressure is growing from the U.S. to do more to protect civilians.
    Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The branches of the trees illustrate how the genes within tumors change as the cancer grows from a few cells to a metastatic monster.
    Jeffrey P. Townsend, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Wild garlic, a cousin of chives that grows from March to May, is in full bloom, officially announcing the height of spring.
    Christina Pérez, Vogue, 2 May 2024
  • The Mad Max franchise has grown from a cult classic into a beloved dystopian empire.
    Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
  • Normally, agaves are grown from clones, or hijuelos, of other plants.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2024

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