How to Use growing in a Sentence

growing

adjective
  • The main thing to think about, Schmitz said, is Hoosiers getting more growing season length.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2023
  • For the last 12 years, the mission of the shelter owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence hasn’t changed, but the dynamic and growing need for beds has.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Next Step Produce starts the rice in a greenhouse and then transplants it, allowing for more growing days so the farm can grow higher-yield varieties.
    Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
  • This new and growing field finds large cloud platforms like Microsoft and Google joining the ranks of startups to create and roll out explainable AI systems.
    Heather Wishart-Smith, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The department is hiring more customer service agents to help address the new and growing backlog of applications, Blinken added.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2023
  • However, the system’s warehouse-scale data centers, which are jam-packed with computers and servers that move and store billions of data, require a large and growing amount of electricity.
    Mark J. Perry, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Hotels and a micro-community Homelessness is a persistent and growing problem in Denver as in many metro areas across the United States.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Our goal is to develop ways to discover major new deposits of vital metals needed for electric vehicle (EV) batteries—for which there is an enormous and growing need.
    Josh Goldman, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Apr. 2023
  • If this continues—and the Boston Consulting Group and Kearney believe the trend is global and growing—beef could be the new coal, shunned by elite tastemakers over rising temperatures and squeezed by increasingly cheap alternatives.
    Mike Dorning, Fortune, 16 May 2021
  • The construction, government and manufacturing sectors in particular have a strong and growing need for early talent who possess tech skills outside software or computing.
    Christine Y. Cruzvergara, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Hotter temperatures, especially during the non-growing season, accelerate the microbes producing nitrous oxide.
    Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021

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