Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sown
IPA transcription: [s'oʊn]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: seeded, sown
    Meaning: sprinkled with seed; "a seeded lawn"
Usage examples
  • They are very much stronger than those sown in spring.
  • Hardy Poppies should be sown even earlier; August is the best time.
  • The seeds of such an imputation, once sown, quickly come to maturity.
  • I hope you have both sown your wild oats and have come back to settle for good."
  • By the time that a third of the day was finished the field of Ares had been plowed and sown.
  • Within the first days of June we can generally pick some Sweet Peas from the rows sown in the second week of September.
  • The young Primrose plants, sown in March, have been planted out in their special garden, and are looking well after some genial rain.
  • Another Egyptian fish deity was the god Rem, whose name signifies "to weep"; he wept fertilizing tears, and corn was sown and reaped amidst lamentations.
  • Beethorpe was an ancient town, mysteriously sown, centuries ago, like a wandering thistle-down of human life, amid the silence and the nibbling sheep of the great chalk downs.
  • How the same St. Cuthbert, living the life of an Anchorite, by his prayers obtained a spring in a dry soil, and had a crop from seed sown by the labour of his hands out of season.