How to Use vegetate in a Sentence

vegetate

verb

• I just spent the weekend vegetating at home.
• I'm worried that after I retire I'll just sit at home, watch TV, and vegetate.
• For them, as for most of us, plants were just there in the background, vegetating away.
  — National Geographic, 21 Feb. 2016
• Rake leaves, go to a football game or just vegetate on the sofa.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2019
• Since the late 1990s, more than half of the world’s vegetated landscapes have experienced a growing deficit, or drying pattern.
  — Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2019
• In the 58 years since the Skycrane’s first flight, fire seasons have lengthened across a quarter of the Earth’s vegetated surface, giving rise to about a 20 percent increase in the global length of the fire weather season.
  — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2020
• Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
  — National Geographic, 21 Jan. 2020
• Each plant takes approximately two months to root, vegetate and mature into ready-to-harvest cannabis, Goldberg said.
  — Kate Magill, Columbia Flier, 13 Dec. 2017
• The water settles into three biofiltration pools and vegetated beds below the light showers, after which it can be safely used by park goers.
  — Barbara Sadick, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2017
• Planting trees and ensuring soils are always vegetated with a cover crop such as clover between cropping seasons can also slow water and trap soil.
  — Dan Evans, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2019
• The Southern Alps’ heavily vegetated westernmost slopes plunge, Jurassic Park–style, toward the sea.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2019
• Agriculture already uses almost half of the world’s vegetated land.
  — Stephen Leahy, National Geographic, 17 July 2019
• Yes, football has its problems, but what's more indulgent, more American, than vegetating on the couch for four hours, gorging on queso and analyzing beer commercials with a bunch of your favorite people?
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 1 Feb. 2020
• Initial Chinese news reports contained no suggestion that officials had been warned that the steep, thinly vegetated hillside could collapse.
  — Chris Buckley and Javier C. HernÁndez, New York Times, 24 June 2017
• Of this green space, 33 percent consists of natural habitats within open space, and 14 percent vegetated private or domestic garden land.
  — Simon Ingram, National Geographic, 26 July 2019
• The park’s custom-built, naturally vegetated overpasses and underground tunnels allow safe passage—and have set the global standard for animal highway safety.
  — Susan O'Keefe, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019

Last Updated: 28 Nov 2024