How to Use vegetative in a Sentence

vegetative

adjective

• The cooked agave and fruity notes carry through to the palate, along with the vegetative and earthy notes.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022
• The buds growing on the lower parts of the trunk are vegetative buds.
  — OregonLive.com, 11 May 2017
• Fire moss looks like green vegetative growth sprouting out of the rooftop.
  — Brett Dvoretz, chicagotribune.com, 10 Apr. 2021
• One day later, the father of two wound up in a vegetative state.
  — ProPublica, 3 May 2020
• The fire’s removal of heavy dead, down trees and thick brush will open up the landscape and allow for new vegetative growth.
  — Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2019
• At least one of the victims remains in a vegetative state.
  — Fox News, 30 Jan. 2020
• He was returned to the US in a vegetative state and died just days after his release.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 26 Feb. 2021
• Here’s a healthy young man who visits the DPRK, commits a crime, and ends up in a coma, in a vegetative state, on your watch.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• He was flown back to the United States in a vegetative state and died soon afterward.
  — Andrew Selsky, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
• Because of all the rain, most of the native wildflowers are all still in a vegetative mode.
  — Orange County Register, 5 Mar. 2017
• Patients in a vegetative state are awake, but show no signs of awareness.
  — Sydney C Greene, USA TODAY, 16 June 2017
• The child was put in intensive care and went into a vegetative state.
  — Imelda García, Dallas News, 13 Nov. 2020
• One of them was Otto Warmbier, who returned in a vegetative state and soon died.
  — NBC News, 25 May 2020
• The plant spends its first year in a vegetative state as a low-growing basal rosette, which produces a robust root system.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2023
• Another required some kind of a buffer to the north, whether vegetative or a fence.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 11 May 2021
• The pine tree-looking ones are vegetative and the rather phallic looking ones are spore-bearing.
  — oregonlive, 9 May 2020
• Warmbier died shortly after being sent back home to the U.S. in a vegetative state in June 2017.
  — NBC News, 6 July 2019
• One of his clients was Jack, whose wife Carrie was in a persistent vegetative state.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 12 Jan. 2018
• Both will cause the plant to remain vegetative instead of setting buds.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Oct. 2021
• In the House version of the bill, builders also have the option to install a reflective roof or a vegetative terrace or roof.
  — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• Sweet and very mildly drying on the palate with herbaceous notes of cut grass, brushy/forest floor, and vegetative flavors of green beans.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Figs take a rest to mature their vegetative buds that begin growth during warm spring days.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Jan. 2018
• That could prolong the execution and leave him in a vegetative state instead of killing him.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
• Even in areas that evolved with fire, flames that burn too hot can destroy vegetative cover, allowing sand to move with the winds.
  — Matthew Abbott, Environment, 18 Dec. 2020
• People in a vegetative state show no response at all to such invasions of space.
  — Karen Weintraub, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2017
• At the end of the first season, Daenerys is faced with a difficult choice: Allow her husband to wither in a vegetative state or kill him.
  — Glamour, 29 Apr. 2019
• An Oklahoma man was sentenced to life in prison last week for a Garland car crash that killed a 28-year-old mother and left her 10-year-old son in a vegetative state.
  — Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2022
• However, more mature plants that are putting on vegetative growth will need 8-10 hours per day.
  — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2024
• The death penalty can also be imposed in cases where the woman is left in a vegetative state, for repeat offenders, or the rape of a girl under the age of 12.
  — Esha Mitra, CNN, 8 Dec. 2020
• The staggering destruction and death toll of fires in Paradise, California, in 2018, and this month’s tragedy on Maui, were partly attributed to the intermingling of urban development and vegetative fuels.
  — Omar Mouallem, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Sep 2024