How to Use growth in a Sentence

growth

noun

• Their profits have averaged five percent growth in the last four years.
• He discovered a substance that promotes the growth of new blood vessels.
• The tree has an average annual growth of almost a foot.
• It's important to prune the bush every year to encourage new growth.
• She's concerned that the medication might slow her child's growth.
• The city has undergone explosive growth in recent years.
• He sees his college years as an opportunity for personal growth.
• He had a growth spurt when he was 16 years old.
• In the spring, trim back to the new green growth, never into the woody part of the plant.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 20 Mar. 2023
• The room for growth is immense, and maybe with the right guys in place, the secondary can take strides in 2023.
  — Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2023
• The long-term economic growth has been as good as the last two terms.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, The Courier-Journal, 10 Sep. 2024
• An easy way to monitor the growth of the seed is to plant a small amount in a planting bed on the north side of the house.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 4 Mar. 2023
• And with the explosive growth in home values over the past 10 years, that’s not so easy.
  — Jim Morrison, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
• That’s less than half the rate of both wage growth and inflation for the United States.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
• Pine Bluff is changing in a positive way and on the path for rapid growth.
  — I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2023
• As the decades pass, women often lose more strands and hair growth slows down.
  — Stacey Colino, TIME, 12 July 2024
• Tomatoes like warmth but above 95 degrees the plants halt their growth.
  — Ligaya Mishan Anthony Cotsifas Emily Woo Zeller Tanya Pérez Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 13 May 2024
• But to iron out an extension now would be to shortchange the growth that still can come.
  — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2023
• This is the year to step into a new chapter of growth and connection.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
• The new growth is supposed to flower later in the summer, but this is not always the case.
  — Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
• But in terms of something that - inflationary is about the rate of growth of prices.
  — CBS News, 18 Aug. 2024
• The rings show the annual growth pattern of trees and stresses such as fire.
  — Keith Matheny, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2024
• Overall, streaming growth will slow though in the coming years.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2023
• The growth was largely driven by the success of content added in the fourth quarter.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
• Also, be sure to remove all the leaves from the flower's stem to reduce the growth of bacteria in the vase.
  — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2024
• The growth pattern on each turtle’s shell depends on its species.
  — Celia Ford, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2023
• The annual rate shows what the growth would have been if the on-quarter rate continues for a year.
  — Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 9 Mar. 2023
• For the long-haired rat, more rain means more vegetation growth, and more food means more rats — lots more.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• This was the first cut in the benchmark loan rates since August 2022, as Beijing moved to roll out more measures to buoy growth.
  — WSJ, 20 June 2023
• And growth also through character building and knowledge.
  — Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 2 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025