17 example sentences using plant.
Plant used in a sentence
Plant in a sentence as a noun
Is he a plant, trying to dig up dirt to embarrass Google?
The farmers are not licensed to plant the 2G seeds.
This plant has a capacity of 200 MW.
He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from.
You can't buy land to build a smokestack plant in a quiet residential neighborhood - ditto.
Should the entire plant workforce **** themselves?Things like nuclear meltdowns are black swan events, with a multitude of causes and guilt.
You've drank milk and eaten meat contaminated by poisonous chemicals from coal power plants for your whole life.
Not a single person has died yet from the Fukushima disaster, yet millions of people have died from ailments caused by coal power plants.
The profit was attributed in part to $50m/year in reduced wages that were extracted from the union in exchange for not closing the plant.
Plant in a sentence as a verb
There was a recent article about an auto plant in Michigan that went through near-bankruptcy but is now making a $2bn/year profit.
This guy bootstrapped a business which sells nuclear power plant control software and now has N employees and Y million revenue.
In one case, a stultifying bureaucratic management for a major steel company was building a new plant.
You pull weeds, plant seeds, and otherwise encourage the plants in your garden to comport themselves in a manner that ends up with a pleasing result.
The capacity of a plant is a number that already incorporates the plant's efficiency.
Efficiency is typically used to describe how well a plant transfers from its energy source into electricity^.
Capacity factor is basically the amount of energy that a plant is actually able to produce over the course of a year divided by the total capacity of the plant.
Also, learn to change your oil and maybe your spark plugs; learn to cook; learn to replace buttons on your shirts; learn to fix your leaky sink and plunge your toilet; learn to plant flowers and tomatoes; milk a cow; shovel some dirt; experience driving a tractor, both the kind in a field and the kind that pull tons of cargo down the expressway ...Get out of your comfort zone, live for a minute in someone else's shoes and maybe, just maybe, you'll learn to respect the work that other people do and be willing to pay them for it - they deserve to be paid for their Work.
Plant definitions
buildings for carrying on industrial labor; "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles"
See also: works
(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
See also: flora
an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience
something planted secretly for discovery by another; "the police used a plant to trick the thieves"; "he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant"
put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground; "Let's plant flowers in the garden"
fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"
set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department"
See also: establish found constitute institute
place into a river; "plant fish"
place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive; "Plant a spy in Moscow"; "plant bugs in the dissident's apartment"
put firmly in the mind; "Plant a thought in the students' minds"
See also: implant