sprout

• Dry, scrub desert seems an unlikely place for a future megalopolis to sprout -- ignoring Los Angeles. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 02 - February 1994
• The young grass was just beginning to sprout, and the whole valley wore an aspect of softness, verdure, and repose, heightened by the contrast of the frightful region from which they had just descended. —  The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
• We're not looking to rendezvous with the magbeam platform: without Beaume there's no one qualified to pilot their lander So how the hell do we get to the surface--sprout wings and fly Back in the Stone Age, before magbeam, the McAuliffe was the first ship ever to make a successful landing and relaunch from Mars. —  AnalogSFF,June2006
• Missing children's groups began to sprout, and though many of them have since folded, some —  SFGate: Top News Stories
• In fact, the name Brussel sprout is the twisting and perverting of the vegetable´s original name, which when translated from the original is in fact, "Wee people´s cabbage." —  American Chronicle

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