How to Use outgrowth in a Sentence

outgrowth

noun
  • The ethos again smacks of Wright—the home as an outgrowth of the land.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The new movie is an outgrowth of a change in her own life.
    Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2022
  • The first Shake Shack opened in a New York park in 2004, an outgrowth from a hot dog stand.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Apr. 2021
  • For Brett Stringer, #sharethemicmn is an outgrowth of her work and her life.
    Rachel Hutton, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
  • The Left Fork Fire is an outgrowth of a prescribed burn that got out of control on May 9.
    Anastasia Hufham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 June 2022
  • There are some outgrowths of that, in terms of supporting new groups.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • An outgrowth of the shop was providing customers a place to dream up their own shirts.
    Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
  • And Michael Cohen was simply an outgrowth of that desire to just fix it.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 10 May 2018
  • Some new ideas emerge as the logical outgrowth of things that are already known.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2024
  • Bienert said that the Backpage.com website was an outgrowth of that print model.
    Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The tour was an outgrowth of Dylan and the Band’s 1974 studio album Planet Waves.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 9 July 2024
  • The verdict brings to a conclusion a trial that was an outgrowth of the #MeToo movement.
    CBS News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Racial healing circles are an outgrowth of that project.
    Pia Jordan, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2024
  • Hip-hop partly grew out of 1970s funk, itself an outgrowth of Motown and blues.
    Dash Lewis, Spin, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The case has been the most high profile of accusations against Spacey and arrived in 2017 as an outgrowth of the #MeToo movement.
    Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
  • The proposal is an outgrowth of the right-to-food movement, sometimes called the food sovereignty movement.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The county’s new focus on zoning is an outgrowth of that work, Hewitt said.
    Steven Litt, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The trend seems to be a logical outgrowth of the widespread activist marketing that reached a fever pitch this year.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The Star Fish restaurant is an outgrowth of and is adjacent to the large wholesale seafood company that was founded in the 1920s.
    Bonnie Gross, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • The case with the FTC is the outgrowth of many security breaches that Facebook has apologized for over the last two years.
    Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 24 July 2019
  • The commitment to keeping it clean was in many ways an outgrowth of his day job, teaching middle school.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The project’s final version is an outgrowth of a request for proposals issued by the city in 2016.
    David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 7 May 2022
  • The measure was an outgrowth of a 2018 teachers' strike that won them raises but fell short of their other school funding goals.
    Bob Christie, ajc, 26 June 2021
  • All of this is an outgrowth of the complete collapse of the Republican Party.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Was this book an outgrowth of your master’s thesis at Oxford?
    Jodi Hausen, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The most visible outgrowth of the effort was a patrol car that was stationed at Fifth and Kennedy full time, with its lights often whirling.
    Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Burnie the Bobcat is an outgrowth of that forward-looking vision.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The diminished expectations are a direct outgrowth of alarm over the revival of the virus.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Bad Animal opened in 2019 as a natural outgrowth of Sivak and LoPrete’s interests.
    John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024
  • The push to pick up the pace of Democratic messaging in peak campaign periods was an outgrowth of Future Forum activity.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024

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