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.
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For them, as for most of us, plants were just there in the background, vegetating away.
—National Geographic, 21 Feb. 2016
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Rake leaves, go to a football game or just vegetate on the sofa.
—Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2019
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Since the late 1990s, more than half of the world’s vegetated landscapes have experienced a growing deficit, or drying pattern.
—Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Southern Alps’ heavily vegetated westernmost slopes plunge, Jurassic Park–style, toward the sea.
—Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2019
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Agriculture already uses almost half of the world’s vegetated land.
—Stephen Leahy, National Geographic, 17 July 2019
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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
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Initial Chinese news reports contained no suggestion that officials had been warned that the steep, thinly vegetated hillside could collapse.
—Chris Buckley and Javier C. HernÁndez, New York Times, 24 June 2017
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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
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The park’s custom-built, naturally vegetated overpasses and underground tunnels allow safe passage—and have set the global standard for animal highway safety.
—Susan O'Keefe, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
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