How to Use outgrowth in a Sentence

outgrowth

noun
  • The ethos again smacks of Wright—the home as an outgrowth of the land.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
  • There are some outgrowths of that, in terms of supporting new groups.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • For Brett Stringer, #sharethemicmn is an outgrowth of her work and her life.
    — Rachel Hutton, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Some new ideas emerge as the logical outgrowth of things that are already known.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2024
  • An outgrowth of the shop was providing customers a place to dream up their own shirts.
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
  • Was this book an outgrowth of your master’s thesis at Oxford?
    — Jodi Hausen, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Passing animals snag on the stiff outgrowth at the tip of the lid, which triggers the spilling of seeds.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • The first instance was an outgrowth of her sketchy sublet arrangement.
    — David Kamp, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The march is an outgrowth of efforts to raise awareness about gun violence and school safety.
    — Patricia Madej, Philly.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • And Michael Cohen was simply an outgrowth of that desire to just fix it.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 10 May 2018
  • The commitment to keeping it clean was in many ways an outgrowth of his day job, teaching middle school.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The county’s new focus on zoning is an outgrowth of that work, Hewitt said.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The new work is positioned to be seen freshly, then seen again as an outgrowth of her 70-year career.
    — Matthew Larking, CNN, 12 May 2017
  • Burnie the Bobcat is an outgrowth of that forward-looking vision.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • His interest in global health was an outgrowth from his time when, at age 15, he was stuck in a body cast for three months.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
  • The trend seems to be a logical outgrowth of the widespread activist marketing that reached a fever pitch this year.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2020
  • This is a natural outgrowth of Black Bear’s business.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Instead, winning is the outgrowth and the evidence of hard work, high character, and a pure heart.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The proposal is an outgrowth of the right-to-food movement, sometimes called the food sovereignty movement.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Reverse Centaur seems like a natural outgrowth of that.
    — ArsTechnica, 23 June 2026
  • The diminished expectations are a direct outgrowth of alarm over the revival of the virus.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Hip-hop partly grew out of 1970s funk, itself an outgrowth of Motown and blues.
    — Dash Lewis, Spin, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Nasal polyps, which are found in up to 4% of people, are an outgrowth of the nasal lining that usually occurs in both nostrils.
    — Adam Taylor, CNN Money, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The verdict brings to a conclusion a trial that was an outgrowth of the #MeToo movement.
    — CBS News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The Left Fork Fire is an outgrowth of a prescribed burn that got out of control on May 9.
    — Anastasia Hufham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 June 2022
  • Its concept was an outgrowth of the Bauhaus school of thought, that decorative arts were art, and that art should be a part of all aspects of life.
    — Diane Cowen, Houston Chronicle, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The first Shake Shack opened in a New York park in 2004, an outgrowth from a hot dog stand.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Apr. 2021
  • All of this is an outgrowth of the complete collapse of the Republican Party.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The measure was an outgrowth of a 2018 teachers' strike that won them raises but fell short of their other school funding goals.
    — Bob Christie, ajc, 26 June 2021
  • But masculinism is not merely an outgrowth of the attention economy.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026

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