Antique furniture dealers prized the Empire-grown mahogany that arrived by the ton from the Caribbean.

By the time of the trial, he had grown a pair and refused to back down.

The ecologist wrote an essay on the full-grownness of the wetland trees and their role in stabilizing the shoreline.

The grass-grown cemetery felt like a forgotten garden, with headstones half-hidden beneath waves of green.

The half-grown sapling bent slightly under the weight of the snow.

Her sudden display of grown-up-ness surprised everyone at the party.

By the time they demanded an apology, she had already grown some balls and refused to back down.