How To Use Full-grown In A Sentence
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It is not an eminently ideal or sportsmanlike sort of fishing, this "jagging," but it possesses a marvellous enjoyment and fascination for the youth of ten, and older people as well; for a full-grown salmon is a powerful fellow, and his big, fluke-like tail enables him to make a terrific rush when under the influence of terror or when chasing his prey.
A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904
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Buffaloes, preferably full-grown bulls, are involved in funerals in two ways: some are contributed by consanguineal relatives and others are lent by affinal kin or even friends.
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Farmers harvest the full-grown fish and restock the ponds with more fingerlings, meaning that several different ages of catfish are present in a pond at any one time.
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Also, from my reading the kestrel is full-grown ... and a male.
The Bird Below Is an American Kestrel...Not a Red-Tailed Hawk ...Which Makes the Story Even More Amazing
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But unless we can stop them, the full-grown dogs of war are not far behind.
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Those in charge of the experiment are quick to point out that this means full-grown watermelons will fit on refrigerator shelves and occupy less space during exportation.
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The very oversight perceptible to any eye and painful to any ear not sealed up by stepdame nature from all perception of pleasure or of pain derivable from good verse or bad -- the reckless reiteration of the same rhyme with but one poor couplet intervening -- suggests rather the oversight of an unfledged poet than the obtuseness of a full-grown poeticule or poetaster.
A Study of Shakespeare
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When these instructions had been carried out the decemvirs sacrificed full-grown victims in the forum at Ardea, and finally in the middle of December there was a sacrifice at the Temple of Saturn, a lectisternium was ordered (the senators prepared the couch), and a public banquet.
The History of Rome, Vol. III
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It developed from a seed into a full-grown tree.
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The weight of a working full-grown horse does not vary from day to day, as the weight of its egesta is equal to that of its food.
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Son, take it from me, when a full-grown she-bull gets wan, she's probably the wannest thing there is in the world.
From Place to Place
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impregnation;" to the little child it may be presented as "an awakening" of the sleeping seeds, so that they begin to grow, to develop, to expand and push out, until we have the full-grown seeds seen in the delicious and juicy roasting ear.
The Mother and Her Child
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The jaw of the walrus is the least regular, and the incisors are generally wanting, especially in the full-grown animal; for it appears they lose them very young, as you lost your milk teeth, only, unluckily for the walrus, his never grow again.
The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
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Jeremy came back from the show with Tinker, a full-grown longhaired female, who, they told him, was a rescue hamster.
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A fish preyed upon by so many other wild creatures for food from its first days of life, to when it becomes a full-grown fish.
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Did you know that Spartan boys training to be officers in their army were partnered up with a full-grown male ‘mentor’, and essentially made to be his wife for ten years?
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Multivariate design language pattern and many dimensions of artistic form construction make the biography matchmaker artistic form more perfect and full-grown.
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A single tremendous blow of the paw can kill a full-grown wolf or human[Sentence dictionary], or can heavily injure a 150 kg Sambar deer.
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We are to understand by the truly honourable that which, setting aside all consideration of utility, may be rightly praised in itself, exclusive of any prospect of reward or compensation.] [Footnote 15: This passage is very obscurely expressed, but the general meaning is clear: "Until endurance grow sinewed with action, and the full-grown will, circled through all experiences grow or become law, be identified with law, and commeasure perfect freedom".
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A full-grown bullfrog talcs near three yards at one hop.
Colonial Children
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The rumours soon ballooned into a full-grown scandal.
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Crews are leery of the full-grown sperm whale bull (up to sixty feet in length), a rarer sight.
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But we do not call the seedling the cause of the full-grown tree; the invariable antecedent it certainly is, and we know very imperfectly on what other antecedents the sequence is contingent, but we are convinced that it is contingent on something; because the homogeneousness of the antecedent with the consequent, the close resemblance of the seedling to the tree in all respects except magnitude, and the graduality of the growth, so exactly resembling the progressively accumulating effect produced by the long action of some one cause, leave no possibility of doubting that the seedling and the tree are two terms in a series of that description, the first term of which is yet to seek.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
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Struck in flank by two full-grown fox - terriers, he was slashed and rolled on the deck.
CHAPTER VI
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Full-grown female whales are about one-third the size of an average male.
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The discovery of that full-grown tiger in a Harlem apartment has made a lot of people take notice of the trade in exotic pets.
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I doubt, in short, whether even the solid thigh-bone of the deinosaur could ever have supported the prodigious weight of a full-grown family razor-back whale.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
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The usual manner employed to catch the full-grown gayal is to surround a field of corn with a strong fence.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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The stables were a great point, and the bobbery pack, which hunt pig for five months all through the winter, accounted in one season for something like nineteen full-grown boar, ten tuskers, and nine sows.
In the Tail of the Peacock
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Young waterbirds are taken in hard weather by full-grown birds.
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Specifically a full-grown male is called a gelding or stallion, the female is a mare.
The Memory Palace
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A pupa of the moth is discovered in a murder victim's throat, and the film posters featured a full-grown specimen superimposed on Foster's face.
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A howl split through the air, and all the full-grown monstrous adult wolves came bounding out, snarling as they went.
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A full-grown male carries a crest of thornlike spines down its head and back; a female’s crest is daintier.
The Song of The Dodo
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Designer Harry Rice completed the aloha fantasy by bringing in full-grown palm trees and other foliage for the two air-conditioned tents where the 300 guests were entertained.
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The latter was also a full-grown male cotinga, known to a few people in this world as the dark-breasted mourner (_Lipaugus simplex_).
Edge of the Jungle
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Farmers harvest the full-grown fish and restock the ponds with more fingerlings, meaning that several different ages of catfish are present in a pond at any one time.
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I was astonished: the room was filled with rows and rows of black pots sprouting with full-grown plants and a web of tiny black feeding-tubes.
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Then our evil desires conceive and give birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
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Then our evil desires conceive and give birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
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The common maiden-hair fern (_Adiantum pedatum_) has been selected here for studying the structure of the full-grown sporophyte, but almost any other common fern will answer.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
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full-grown
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Young gayals are caught by leaving in the fence holes of a size sufficient to admit a calf, but which excludes the full-grown gayal; the calves enter by these holes, which are then shut by natives who are watching, and who secure the calves.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Familiaris, though they attained great dignity of conception, and were the centre of the family life, and to some extent of the family morality, never quite rose to the position of full-grown gods; while among the spirits of the field the wildness and impishness of character associated with Faunus and his companion Inuus -- almost the cobolds or hobgoblins of the flocks -- reflects clearly the old 'animistic' belief in the natural evilness of the spirits and their hostility to men.
The Religion of Ancient Rome
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The floor was of the bare earth, covered in patches with loose plank of various descriptions, and littered over with billets of "lightwood," unwashed cooking utensils, two or three cheap stools, a pine settee -- made from the rough log and hewn smooth on the upper side -- a full-grown bloodhound, two younger canines, and nine half-clad juveniles of the flax-head species.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
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There were performers who could lift a full-grown goat by biting it on the neck.
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The very oversight perceptible to any eye and painful to any ear not sealed up by stepdame nature from all perception of pleasure or of pain derivable from good verse or bad -- the reckless reiteration of the same rhyme with but one poor couplet intervening -- suggests rather the oversight of an unfledged poet than the obtuseness of a full-grown poeticule or poetaster.
A Study of Shakespeare
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How can a full-grown adult afford to live on less than $20,000 a year?
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Five full-grown male bulls were killed and sacrificed to the gods and goddesses.
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He never missed a chance of securing a hatful of grubs, which, together with the chrysalides and the full-grown beetle (brown and glossy) were devoured after being warmed through on the ashes.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Becker then, having carefully investigated the creature, pronounced it to be (as we already know) a full-grown specimen of a kind of ape, called by the Africans "the wild man of the woods," and by naturalists the _jocko_ or chimpanzee.
Willis the Pilot
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There is nothing in these data to indicate that a full-grown man in normal health, and with proper treatment, will succumb to crotaline poisoning unless the venom enters a vein, direct.
The Poison Bugaboo
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According to other official sources, plans are also on the cards to axe three to four full-grown trees to pave the way for the new structure.
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The dried pulp of its unripe, full-grown fruit constitutes the drug colocynth, which is used as a cathartic.
Chapter 10
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Hikers in the Los Angeles forest which surrounds the city were alarmed over the last few weeks by reports of a full-grown tiger roaming their trails.
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Somehow I don't think the gaps in the patio are big enough to support full-grown onions.
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For once, however, this apophthegm failed; the next call was altogether as ineffectual as the former; and moreover, attended with a phenomenon which to them was equally strange and inexplicable: this was no other than such a reduction in the size of Mrs. Trunnion as might have been expected after the birth of a full-grown child.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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The only way someone would be able to tell it wasn't a full-grown woman by her voice, was by the way she shaped her words.
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Among the zoological delights that awaited them according to him were the dagger-tooth: a 120 kilo, furred predator of the mountains; the greater snowbird with a three-meter wingspread and talons that could carry off a full-grown Klingon; plus a host of uncatalogued amphibians that made the marshes acutely inhospitable.
Pawns and Symbols
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Hudson falls for wife of man he killed, studies, cures her uncurable blindness in bare-chested operation-starts in death, ends in salvation, and updates a medieval mythology of efficacious grace into the apostatic 50s of luxury condos and kultchah, with uneasy overtones of capitalist will-to-power: a full-grown stereotype of moonlit joy rides, canted California beachlight, Swiss oompahpah, the world's best optometrists in labcoats, a hidden desert valley in Arizona that exists only for a hospital that exists only as the bedspring of recovery-emotional and physical-for our cut-out protagonists.
The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide
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He was a full-grown and rather large negro, as black as charcoal, with a splendid tier of "ivories;" and with eyeballs, pupil and irides excepted, as white as his teeth.
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
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A full-grown giraffe is 5.5m tall.
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But these days many do not hesitate to chop down even the full-grown trees in their compound because none can spare the time to sweep and clear the yard everyday!
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He was a bit special then, a little cub with the predatory instincts of a full-grown hunting lion.
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Even broccoli sprouts are said to be as beneficial as full-grown broccoli.
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When you're not feeling ill, you will have the appetite of three full-grown Belgian quarter horses.
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Maybe that's why they put dirt on their faces, she thought, to convince people that they were full-grown men, or to convince themselves.
AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
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The square boxes are the exact dimensions of Japanese refrigerators, allowing full-grown watermelons to fit conveniently and precisely onto refrigerator shelves.
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As in his cubhood he had been made to feel his smallness and puniness on the day he first came in from the Wild to the village of Grey Beaver, so now, in his full-grown stature and pride of strength, he was made to feel small and puny.
The Southland
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A full-grown elephant may weigh 2,000 pounds.
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The SKYDSGUT, or so-called postboy, for the next stage of the journey, was a full-grown man of considerable weight.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
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A full-grown elephant may weigh 2,000 pounds.
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The weight of a working full-grown horse does not vary from day to day, as the weight of its egesta is equal to that of its food.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
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The forward march of the publication saw it become a fully-fledged, full-grown newspaper in March of 2002.
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A king cobra bite can kill a human in 15 minutes and a full-grown elephant in a few hours.
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She is now preserved and part of the UW Fish Collection, which has 82 other ratfish specimens, ranging from eggs to full-grown adults.
Archive 2007-09-01
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In response she is reminded of the seeds she found and how she helped them mature into full-grown trees.
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As yet, since I came to full-grown power, I had never met any one whom I could not play teetotum with: but now at last I had found a man whose strength was not to be laughed at.
Lorna Doone
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It is utterly amazing how such a little bundle of flesh and bones can exert so much control over the lives of full-grown adults.
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Each of these bungalows has at least 50 full-grown trees.
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So you realized the little Cub Scout was really a full-grown man!
THREE IN ONE
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It developed from a seed into a full-grown tree.
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Just a few feet off the starboard bow, the bloated carcass of a full-grown steer stared back at us.