grafted
Meaning
of Graft
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Phrases with the word
Examples
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
Let the world be grafted onto our republics, but the trunk must be our own. And let the vanquished pedant hold his tongue, for there are no lands in which a man may take greater pride than in our long-suffering American republics.
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.