How to use "grew" in a sentence

But when I was thirteen, I grew six inches in six months! And by the time I was sixteen, I was bigger and heavier than all the other boys in the school.

A short time later, the girls grew bored with their game

Marius grew up with his grandfather, and never knew his father

Leblanc grew pale, and gripped the back of the broken chair with his huge hands

The crowd grew more and more excited, until finally they tried to take the coffin away from the soldiers and carry it across a bridge

The sky grew lighter, but not a door or window was open in the street

Gillenormand grew happier as his grandson's condition improved

But as the weakness of his body increased, his spirit grew in strength

we grew up

She grew braver, and began to swim more rapidly toward the beach.

Apat's eyes grew wide as saucers

Cham's eyes grew wide

Cham's eyes grew wide with disbelief

Anxiety grew in Sala's stomach

The trees grew very close together over our heads and it was very dark

And that's how she was when she grew up

Meanwhile, the sky grew darker by the second; massive storm clouds, like the clenched fists of celestial giants, squeezed the last light out of the day

She grew dizzy from the bourbon and finally slipped into welcome oblivion.

The roar of conversation grew louder as the sounds ticked away, and the quality of the roar became more frenetic, gayer, and more often punctuated with laughter.

Vivienne winced as the shrill electronic squeal grew louder, a piercing oscillation

The air grew even colder.

As the room grew warm again, the doorknobs and the radio casing and the other metal objects quickly shed their fragile skins of ice, leaving shallow puddles on furniture and damp spots in the carpet

The air grew warm again.

Gradually Michael's displeasure over her desire to succeed was complicated by a darker emotion: He grew jealous of her smallest achievements

Indeed the feeling of invisible and dangerous companionship was growing stronger as the room grew colder.

The pressure in his chest grew so great that he couldn't get his breath.

The furrows in Elliot's brow grew deeper

The air grew colder still

In the car, the air grew warm again.

Her right hand, in which she held the pen, grew rapidly colder than any other part of her

After half a minute, all of the unnatural movement stopped, and the room rapidly grew warm again.

The air grew cold.

The elevator doors closed behind them, and around them, the air grew warmer again.

This time we went towards the vicarage and finally to where the bushes grew against the wall.

He grew calmer telling me

As the dawn grew brighter, we moved back from the window where we had watched and went very quietly downstairs.

The figure of the Martian grew smaller as it moved away, and soon it was hidden by the mist and the coming night

These hills grew lower and broader as we stared.

As they grew hungry, they began to steal

It grew smaller, sank slowly and disappeared again into the night

These worries stayed on my mind and I grew very tired of the curate's constant talking

Through the eighth and ninth days his voice grew louder

At that moment, I felt the beginning of something that soon grew quite clear in my mind, that worried me for many days

There was black dust on the road after the bridge, and it grew thicker in Fulham

The silence grew greater

When I passed streets that ran to the north it grew louder, and then houses and buildings seemed to cut it off again

The voice grew stronger and stronger, although I could see nothing above the roof-tops on the north side of the park except some smoke to the north-west.

I marched on without fear towards this great machine, and then, as I came nearer and the light grew, I saw that a number of black birds were circling and gathering around the top of it

The thought that had flashed into my mind grew real, and believable

I stood staring into the pit, and my heart grew wonderfully happy as the rising sun lit up the world around me