How to Use vegetate in a Sentence

vegetate

verb
  • I just spent the weekend vegetating at home.
  • I'm worried that after I retire I'll just sit at home, watch TV, and vegetate.
  • Rake leaves, go to a football game or just vegetate on the sofa.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2019
  • For them, as for most of us, plants were just there in the background, vegetating away.
    — National Geographic, 21 Feb. 2016
  • Through the cattle’s death, the bacteria are brought back to the earth to vegetate or sporulate once more.
    — Hannah Kinzer, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The Tigers didn't act fast to quash the initial report, rather allowing the idea of Hinch's opt-out clause to vegetate for more than a year.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2022
  • Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
    — National Geographic, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Planting trees and ensuring soils are always vegetated with a cover crop such as clover between cropping seasons can also slow water and trap soil.
    — Dan Evans, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2019
  • Each plant takes approximately two months to root, vegetate and mature into ready-to-harvest cannabis, Goldberg said.
    — Kate Magill, Columbia Flier, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The water settles into three biofiltration pools and vegetated beds below the light showers, after which it can be safely used by park goers.
    — Barbara Sadick, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2017
  • Contrary to the arid badlands of Ledi-Geraru today, millions of years ago, the area was a lush, vegetated landscape with rivers and shallow lakes.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Of this green space, 33 percent consists of natural habitats within open space, and 14 percent vegetated private or domestic garden land.
    — Simon Ingram, National Geographic, 26 July 2019
  • Yes, football has its problems, but what's more indulgent, more American, than vegetating on the couch for four hours, gorging on queso and analyzing beer commercials with a bunch of your favorite people?
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 1 Feb. 2020
  • We were parked alongside a remote and heavily vegetated waterway called Furlong Creek, which was the site of another one of Johnson’s experiments.
    — Katie Thornton, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Spores can also persist indefinitely in contaminated soil and may vegetate in grazeland, which could further spread the infection among South Dakota’s cattle.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022

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