How to Use regrow in a Sentence

regrow

verb
  • That doesn't vary much from person to person, and people shed and regrow hair throughout their lives.
    Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 3 Sep. 2024
  • It’s also clinically proven to help regrow thicker, fuller hair, with noticeable results in just three to six months.
    Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 6 Sep. 2024
  • This way, the coral will merge and regrow over the frame.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Many times the forests that regrow don't look like the ones that burned.
    The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Then, prune out the dead portions and wait for new shoots to regrow the plants.
    Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2023
  • If and when the urchins leave an area and return to their crevices, the kelp can regrow.
    Andrew Robinson, Scientific American, 21 July 2022
  • Most palms can regrow from their shoots but the juçara cannot, so when the palm heart is removed, the tree dies.
    CNN, 30 Mar. 2021
  • When the birds molt, their feathers regrow in the same places year after year.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • But if mold was growing on the wood when it was painted, the mold can regrow.
    Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Overseed in the fall to regrow bare patches where weeds can get a foothold.
    oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The goal of the study was to regrow hair covering at least 80 percent of their scalp.
    Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2022
  • But if that bison munches on a few grass leaves, the plant can regrow new leaves from the base.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 17 May 2024
  • Even if future freezes kill the plants back, most will regrow from the lower parts.
    Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 22 Dec. 2020
  • One dropped its leaves and is starting to regrow, while the other one kept its leaves.
    Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2023
  • In the wild, an African clawed frog can’t regrow a missing appendage.
    Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Don’t leave stubs as these will likely have buds at their base and just regrow.
    Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2024
  • Stem cells, she was told, could regrow the cartilage in her knee.
    AZCentral.com, 12 June 2021
  • But don’t feel too sorry them, as many lizards can regrow their tails.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • This way the plants have plenty of time to regrow and flower during the warmer weather.
    Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 27 July 2019
  • With chlorosis, leaves can look burned but stems will regrow leaves next spring.
    oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Seeds are also being spread to regrow plants on land that drowned decades ago.
    Ben Tracy, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Bleach kills mildew spores, but there are so many floating in the air that mildew will regrow if the conditions are right.
    Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2021
  • The cut appears to have been high enough that the stump should still have enough adventitious buds to regrow.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
  • And those take time to regrow, which means gameplay is spread out over days or weeks, versus just hours.
    WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Give the new planting normal garden care and the bulbs should be ready to regrow next winter.
    Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 3 July 2021
  • Some trees killed all the way to the ground such as figs, bay, crape myrtles and others should have the dead tops removed to allow the plants to regrow from the basal sprouts.
    Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 21 June 2021
  • The study identified up to 1.67 billion acres that could be set aside to allow trees to regrow.
    Fred Pearce, Wired, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Incredibly, the process of shedding the body takes just a few hours, but the time needed to regrow what is lost is much longer.
    Mike Wehner, BGR, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Later this summer, the goats will return to Greenside, after the plants have had a chance to regrow.
    Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2020
  • This gives the zebrafish time to regrow the new neurons needed to make a full recovery.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Aug. 2024

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