How to Use grow out in a Sentence

grow out

phrasal verb
  • That has much to do with vogue, a language that grew out of the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1960s.
    Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Front Flip By the next year, Beckham had once again grown out his hair.
    Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • This friend was a bully in school and seems not to have grown out of that persona.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Leaves are growing out of the roof, and a swing is tied to a protruding branch.
    Time, 27 June 2023
  • These are so durable that your child is more likely to grow out of them than break them.
    Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2023
  • The movement has been building since at least 2020, growing out of the woke ...
    Stanley Goldfarb, National Review, 18 Aug. 2024
  • When the cancer cells start to grow out of control, a tumor forms.
    Taylyn Washington-Harmon, Health, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Just like the skin on our faces, each person’s scalp, and the hair that grows out of it, is different.
    Caitie Kelly, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The cancer occurs when healthy cells change and grow out of control.
    Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2024
  • That is fully filled with flowers growing out of the hole.
    Byalice Barlow, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Its houses, which had slate roofs the same color as the surrounding slag heaps, seemed to grow out of the earth.
    Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024
  • The musical grew out of a sequence in an episode of the Disney+ series Hawkeye in 2021.
    Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2023
  • These cuts will encourage new roots to grow out into the soil.
    Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • The book grew out of a series of Zoom conversations between the two of you, right?
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024
  • Part of their newfound civic engagement grew out of the notion that a blind faith in Trump isn’t enough.
    Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2024
  • When this type of cancer begins, white blood cells grow out of control and cause swollen lymph nodes and growths all across the body.
    Amy Scharf, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024
  • In a grueling 20-day journey to get there, Navalny grew out a beard.
    The Editors, National Review, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Verrett agrees that people will be growing out their hair in 2024.
    Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The star's bangs have grown out and now blend into the waves, beautifully framing her face.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 17 June 2024
  • Styles’ hair — which was shaved into a buzz cut back in November — has since grown out a bit and is styled into a fade.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Hip-hop partly grew out of 1970s funk, itself an outgrowth of Motown and blues.
    Dash Lewis, Spin, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Did this book grow out of any particular event or research project of yours?
    Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The Prince is clearly a fan of his new look, growing out his beard after going clean-shaven at Balmoral.
    Isaac Bickerstaff, Glamour, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The baby may grow out of this type of lactase deficiency over time.
    Brittany Lubeck, Ms, Rdn, Verywell Health, 7 Mar. 2024
  • As anyone who’s had to grow out a bad perm or a too-short cut knows, hair goes through years-long phases of growth and rest, in which new hair comes in and then falls out.
    Connie Chang, Popular Mechanics, 3 July 2023
  • Spora grew out of Alchemist’s Copenhagen test kitchen, where chefs still shape and puff and buff dishes during the first part of each night’s meal.
    Charlotte Lytton, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Brooks showed a calmer demeanor Brooks appeared in court in a wheelchair, while wearing a blue plaid shirt and pants, his hair grown out and braided.
    Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2024
  • A lot of Jamil’s activist work is through her i Weigh platform, which grew out of the Instagram account @i_weigh, started in 2018.
    Andrea Kane, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The tendency after a long period of rain when the lawn grows out is to cut it really short.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2023
  • So much of horror grows out of our most basic fears from childhood, and DeWanda taps into all of that.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2023

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