Grew is an English word of 4 letters. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Grew meaning
- simple past of grow
- past participle of grow
Using Grew
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past of grow | past participle of grow
- In the example corpus, grew often appears in combinations such as: grew up, grew its, grew by.
Context around Grew
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 10 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Grew
- In this selection, "grew" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pacific, japan, europe, ever, demand and close stand out and add context to how "grew" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 32 japan grew by 6, 6 europe grew by 10, llc grew, inc grew and corp grew. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "grew" sits close to words such as attention, sign and band, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with grew
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
For years, he said, it grew as Google grew. (9 words)
And on a geographic basis, North America grew 1% and international grew 7%. (13 words)
Alexis grew out of it, though, and grew up mostly out of the spotlight. (14 words)
For people like me who grew up in the 90's many of us grew up watching Hocus Pocus every October on the Disney Channel, and it is a movie I loved in my childhood that I still watch into my adulthood. (42 words)
If we look at the revenue categories, the main contributor to revenue growth was growth in the footwear category, where revenue grew by just over 20% YoY, while revenue in the apparel category grew by 4.4% YoY. (38 words)
There could come a day when I stop caring so much and relegate the country that I grew up in, my parents grew up in, to the past, as a bittersweet memory of a bygone era. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
On a geographic breakdown, Asia Pacific grew by 32%, Japan grew by 6%, Europe grew by 10%, and the Middle East & Africa grew by 12%.
As London grew, the metabolic rift grew as well: farms needed ever more imported and manufactured fertilizer to maintain soil fertility, while urban accumulations of human and animal excrement grew ever larger and noxious.
And on a geographic basis, North America grew 1% and international grew 7%.
As buzz about Sullivan’s bread grew, demand grew as well, and Suzie stepped in to become Steven’s business partner.
As the centre of that cloud became denser and denser, its gravitational field strength grew and grew, and so the collapse spiralled in a runaway.
If we look at the revenue categories, the main contributor to revenue growth was growth in the footwear category, where revenue grew by just over 20% YoY, while revenue in the apparel category grew by 4.4% YoY.
In terms of population growth over the last decade, California grew by 8% while the other six states grew by 14.13%.
Men's bottoms grew 9% with growth across all geographic segments, and we continue to fuel momentum in women's bottoms, which grew 18%.
Next, they created a Legends Figure line as they realized kids who grew up in the 80s were now adults or teens and wanted the wrestlers they grew up on with the new technology.
President Mark Montefiore grew up in St. Catharines, Ont. and instantly recognized everybody on the show that he grew up with — himself included.
Sales in the first quarter grew 17% year-over-year to reach $2.4 billion as comp sales grew 10.9%.
Commercial clients grew 4% and commercial balances grew 5% as a result of our continued focus on primacy.
I dont think its necessary to change the name: thats where she grew up: leave the same name, to show how someone can excel from any community that they grew up in.
Rav Kogan, z’l, grew up in Israel, attending Litvak mosdos Torah, including Yeshivas Mir. He later grew close to Chabad.
There could come a day when I stop caring so much and relegate the country that I grew up in, my parents grew up in, to the past, as a bittersweet memory of a bygone era.
Alexis grew out of it, though, and grew up mostly out of the spotlight.
For people like me who grew up in the 90's many of us grew up watching Hocus Pocus every October on the Disney Channel, and it is a movie I loved in my childhood that I still watch into my adulthood.
For years, he said, it grew as Google grew.
The domestic advances grew 16% YoY and retail loan grew 19% YoY, the bank said.
The Ipsos Foodservice Monitor found in 2018, sales via food delivery grew 54 per cent and take-out grew 18 per cent.
Phrases with grew
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with grew
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- grew up 70×
- grew its 59×
- grew by 23×
- llc grew 18×
- inc grew 14×
- she grew 13×
- grew and 11×
- who grew 9×
- grew as 8×
- he grew 8×