spawn

How To Use spawn In A Sentence

• Along with the grunion, these are the only marine fish known to fully emerge from water solely for the purpose of spawning.
• The band's album spawned a string of hit singles.
• Once a year the up-river migration of the salmon heading for their spawning grounds provides a great feast.
• The winds associated with this broader wake spawn a narrow eastward countercurrent that draws warm water from west to east.
• One goal was to return fish to traditional spawning grounds in the upper reaches of the Clearwater tributaries, strengthening natural fish runs.
• But it was the Dutch luxury trades that enabled the economy to take off, and the financial institutions these trades spawned that allowed the Dutch to invest with an eye to continuous economic growth.
• All of them die soon after spawning in July or August. Times, Sunday Times
• An existing fish pass has fallen into disrepair and is not maintained, resulting in fish finding it hard to get upriver to spawn.
• Mr. Ettinger's ideas, which he popularized in a 1963 book, "The Prospect of Immortality," spawned what some refer to as the cryonics movement, though by most accounts it is a small endeavor: a scattering of enterprises around the country with dues-paying customers totaling a few thousand, a few hundred of whom have actually been deep-frozen. NYT > Home Page
• The plant has spawned human fatalities and engendered the strange fauna and flora found on the eerie headland where the derelict buildings remain. Times, Sunday Times