How to Use regrowth in a Sentence

regrowth

noun
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  • And unlike the regrowth of blooms and leaves, the growth of new canes is not a given.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
  • To prevent any regrowth of the stems, check out the product Cut Vine and Stump Killer.
    — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 22 June 2018
  • Nothing worked for my hair loss and regrowth as well as PRP did.
    — Rachel King, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2022
  • This could harm their regrowth as a species, experts say.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The wounds heal, regrowth begins, and people start searching for the antlers that have been shed.
    — The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Future Landsat snaps can perhaps catch the area’s regrowth as the years pass.
    — Wired, 6 July 2022
  • Then, about two weeks ago Cunningham touched up the regrowth.
    — Andrea Lavinthal, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The Museum Fire crossed into that more than 30-year-old burn scar, which was still in a stage of regrowth.
    — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 25 July 2019
  • Widely planted in our area; fast regrowth if frozen to ground.
    — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2020
  • His hope is that native plants will suppress the regrowth of buckthorn.
    — Gail Rosenblum, Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • If too many trees die, forest regrowth can be hampered by the lack of viable seeds.
    — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Her bones show no signs of regrowth or healing around her injuries.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2024
  • The cattle mow down the fields and then the chickens spread out the manure and aerate the soil with their pecking, which speeds up regrowth of the grass, Hamilton said.
    — oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Heat stress can kill mature coral reefs and curtail their regrowth.
    — Susan Cosier, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Today, Soviero is happy to say her scans are clear and there has been no regrowth or new growth.
    — Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, PEOPLE.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Of course, like any experiment, not all of the frogs responded the same to the attempts at limb regrowth.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 31 Jan. 2022
  • One that leaves our strands to do their thing without worrying about regrowth.
    — Elle Turner, Glamour, 27 Feb. 2021
  • The reef’s rich ecosystem, which powers the Bahamas’ tourism, was already threatened, and regrowth in the rubble will take years.
    — Penn Bullock, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
  • While most of our bone cells are quite long-lived, there’s still a regular background of death and regrowth among skeletal cells.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2018
  • My rate of hair regrowth was also consistent with the average of about a half-inch per month.
    — Rachel Weber, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Jan. 2022
  • These enclosures keep the grazers away from the riverbanks to aid in the regrowth of willows, alders, and cottonwood trees.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The hard fact of the matter is that preventing hair thinning or boosting hair regrowth is a tricky problem to solve.
    — Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Outside, standing by the homemade grave of his friends, Pavlyuk acknowledges the regrowth around him.
    — James Longman, ABC News, 10 June 2022
  • Tubes of netting are refilled with seaweed on deck and fed back into the water for regrowth.
    — Nell Lewis, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Clear-cuts catalyze thick understory regrowth, which deer love to feed on and bed in.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 1 Nov. 2023
  • After three months or so, patients start to notice new hair regrowth.
    — Lisa Fogarty, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 May 2019
  • Cal Fire spokeswoman Diana Swart said there had been too much regrowth in the years since for its footprint to act as much of a deterrent.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
  • At the time of her first salon visit, Jonna had about an inch of natural regrowth.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 24 Apr. 2018
  • But experts say the window for that treatment is small, and people whose lawns are affected by the pests might just want to wait for regrowth.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
  • One hurdle has been achieving enough nerve regrowth to breathe without a trach tube.
    — CBS News, 9 July 2024

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