How to Use spawn in a Sentence

spawn

1 of 2 verb
  • The health-food craze spawned a multimillion-dollar industry.
  • The Atlantic is not the only ocean to have spawned a monster storm in 2023.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Every year, hordes of crappie flock to the shallows to spawn.
    Don Wirth, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The film spawned two sequels, as well as a spin-off film with Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
  • Why: Smallmouth bass don’t spawn until the water reaches the low 60s.
    Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 14 Mar. 2024
  • End of carousel That sort of rage against the machine has spawned an entire industry.
    Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • Since then, hip-hop has spawned a mass of subgenres – gangsta rap, crunk and trap among them.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • So for the last 110 years, salmon, steelhead and other fish that used the river above where the dams were for spawning, have been unable to get there.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Now, scientists say, chum salmon are spawning in the Arctic, a sign of rapid climate change.
    WIRED, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The franchise has since spawned multiple sequels and spinoffs on its way to becoming one of the best-selling video games of all time.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023
  • This line of storms has the potential to spawn more tornadoes, as well as large hail and damaging winds, into the evening.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Twitter’s decline has spawned or revived a host of rivals, such as the nonprofit Mastodon and Meta’s Threads.
    Jeremy B. Merrill, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Both became tremendous hits for BET, and have spawned multiple spinoffs.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 9 Jan. 2024
  • How to catch them: Steelhead are giant rainbow trout that return to Idaho to spawn after spending most of their lives in the ocean.
    Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The 81st Golden Globe Awards spawned several jokes and laugh-worthy memes Sunday.
    Patrick Ryan, The Enquirer, 8 Jan. 2024
  • This is the place that spawned tyrannical sushi masters and ramen bullies who make their staff and customers tremble with a glare.
    Zoe Li, CNN, 2 May 2023
  • Her acting debut was the second-highest grossing film of 1992 and spawned the best-selling soundtrack of all time.
    Keaton Bell, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Growth rates, spawning success, and bass appeal certainly matter here, but for anglers, the bluegill brings a lot more to the table.
    David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Then in March, a different star naturally spawned and was sexed as male.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Activists launch a sit-in, and the ensuing police response spawns a wider movement, and in turn, a more sprawling crackdown.
    Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
  • The series spawned five previous films before running out of gas with the 2013 installment.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But the foundation of this series is still subterfuge and skullduggery, a vision of sneaky spycraft that’s outlived the Cold War that spawned it.
    Vulture, 14 July 2023
  • The United States can neither easily dismantle the axis nor defeat the ideas that spawned it.
    Narges Bajoghli, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The talent that spawned this success and popularity was not so easy to define.
    Bruce Weber, New York Times, 21 July 2023
  • Camp Lejeune's poisoned water has spawned thousands of claims.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 15 May 2023
  • Still, if it is eventually proved that bluefin are spawning in the Slope Sea in significant numbers, this could be good news for the species.
    Karen Pinchin, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Seven-game losing streaks tend to spawn sobering subplots.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
  • This has helped drive traffic to their sites and has also spawned an industry of consultants and marketers who advise on how best to do that.
    Ravi Sen, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The original flick spawned 12 additional movies, and the franchise has made more than $1 billion and counting.
    Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
  • This spring’s watch launches have spawned a whole new school of salmon dials in a continuation of a trend that has been swimming upstream for a while now.
    Carol Besler, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2023
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spawn

2 of 2 noun
  • Pacific salmon return to Alaskan streams to deposit their spawn.
  • The full moon will be the peak of the sheepshead spawn.
    Frank Sargeant, al, 4 Apr. 2021
  • And the spawn is not the end of it for production around shad.
    Frank Sargeant, al, 2 May 2021
  • Brown and brook trout spawn in the fall, and trout of all species love to feed on their eggs.
    Field & Stream, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Among the coastal tribes, it was known as the fish moon, when the shad swam upstream to spawn.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • When the shad spawn ends, bluegills take over the shallows and bass follow them.
    Frank Sargeant, al, 28 May 2021
  • The servers are behind a little door with a chest spawn in it.
    Dave Thier, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Before the spawn, bass cruise to feed and look for bedding sites.
    Mark Hicks, Field & Stream, 19 May 2020
  • Fish spawn in the many rivers, creeks, and freshwater lakes.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2023
  • One of the spawn rooms is actually Lúcio’s home, and the end of the map is his club.
    Kris Holt, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • The fish was fat and ready for the spawn and darted off with a splash upon release.
    Jim Gronaw, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Like many spawn of the ’80s and ’90s, my own childhood jiggled and wobbled.
    Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon Appétit, 17 Oct. 2023
  • If and Zoom had a baby, would be their lovely 8-bit spawn.
    Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2021
  • Acts of kindness spawn acts of kindness and make for a better world.
    Cquinn, cleveland, 29 July 2023
  • And in the process, the younger Martin has earned the affection of another NBA spawn.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The other two spawn in the spring in either the central Baltic or its gulfs farther north.
    Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The flathead spawn begins when the water hits 80 degrees, though not all the fish spawn at once.
    Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 15 June 2023
  • Huke rushed past the A flag and toward the Mutineers’ spawn, scouting for his team.
    Sean Collins, Dallas News, 25 July 2020
  • And Zhùr’s den wasn’t far from the Klondike River, where Chinook salmon spawn today.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Maybe the spawn of these two lovebirds will go on to cure the zombie outbreak or something.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 May 2021
  • The reefs would be closed to harvest and used strictly to breed spawn and increase larvae.
    Halle Parker | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The fish are spawning or post spawn in much of the lake--check the edges of the grass fields for open areas with hard bottom or woody cover.
    Frank Sargeant, al, 7 May 2021
  • The latest from spawn-of-Riverdance supergroup the High Kings is a live album with a twist.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Here, Richard Donner uses a pint-size spawn of the devil to elicit his screams.
    Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2023
  • To spawn, salmon dig small depressions called redds to lay their eggs.
    Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Each year, millions of salmon spawn, stop eating, rot alive, and dissolve away.
    Marion Renault, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
  • Some kids had sneaker skates, the spawn of a track shoe and a monster truck; others had the figure-skating boot.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 May 2021
  • One of his favorite opportunities of the year is the chance to target big, pre-spawn walleyes in mid-March.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2020
  • That opportunity would be multiplied if the new spot bitcoin ETFs begin to spawn variants, says Tejpaul.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The game also is credited with helping spawn baseball’s sabermetrics movement because of the way statistics on Strat player cards can be evaluated.
    Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024

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