How to Use grow wild in a Sentence

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  • Soil bank is land that farmers leave alone to grow wild and provide cover for wildlife of all sorts.
    Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Orchids grow wild all over the Earth, except in deserts or regions of constant snow.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2022
  • The spirit is based on the Agave americana and Agave salmiana species, which grow wild in this region.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The rest of the acreage is being left to grow wild, encouraged by the addition of new, indigenous plants and trees.
    Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
  • This bulb grows best in warm, arid climates that are similar to the Western Mediterranean region where the plants grow wild.
    Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 18 Apr. 2021
  • But there are also so many berries that grow wild and are so regional to America.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2022
  • The fragrance of cinnamon, frangipani, and mango, which grow wild on the property, drifted in the air.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Just like tapping maple trees for their sugary syrup, the extraction of latex does no harm to rubber trees, which grow wild only in the Amazon.
    Brian Barth, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2021
  • It is situated in a local cemetery, where a nearby meadow left to grow wild provides ample food.
    Lucy Papachristou, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Marijuana plants often grow wild in villages, but police sometimes destroy plants grown on farms for sale.
    Binaj Gurubacharya, ajc, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Bozal Tepeztate is an easy-sipping, single varietal mezcal—a subspecies of the Marmorata family of agaves that grow wild on the sides of the steep, rocky cliffs of Oaxaca and Guerrero.
    Richard Carleton Hacker, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The concept: Matsu was named after matsutake mushrooms, which are pine mushrooms that are native to Japan but grow wild in Southern California forests.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2021
  • There’s also a picnic lawn, sculpture gardens, and areas where Arkansas native flora, like willow oaks, purple baptisia, and oak sedge, can grow wild.
    Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 5 May 2023
  • Cockpit Country is also unique in its ability to grow crops that are not frequently found in other Caribbean climates, such as berries, strawberries and mushrooms that grow wild among the networks of springs and streams.
    Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Huckleberries in the Gaylussacia group, or genus, grow wild in the forest underbrush in eastern North America and Canada.
    Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Hundreds of varieties of the three types of cannabis—Sativa, Indica and Ruderalis—grow wild over the Indian subcontinent, cropping up lush alongside highways or city parks, taking over like, well, a weed.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 2 Aug. 2020
  • Psychedelics grow wild on every continent except Antarctica—and millions of Americans are already consuming psychedelics with the goal of improving their mental health.
    Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2023
  • Psychedelics grow wild on every continent except Antarctica—and millions of Americans are already consuming psychedelics with the goal of improving their mental health.
    Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2023
  • Though psychedelic mushrooms grow wild in the Pacific Northwest and underground sources of the drug are available, finding a legal supply is nearly impossible.
    Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Wild populations of trees have the most genetic diversity and conservation value, said Murphy Westwood, the Arboretum’s director of global tree conservation, but ginkgos grow wild in just one province of China.
    Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2020

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