SPAWN in a Sentence

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For SPAWN, below is one of 7 sentences:
Fish ladders had to be built in the dams to assist the salmon returning to spawn in their native streams.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPAWN
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spawn
 v.  lay eggs; produce offspring in large numbers
Classic Sentence:
1  Restless still, and unsatisfied, he turned toward Africa, and for long years, amid the spawn of the slave-smugglers, sought a new heaven and a new earth.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
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1  Fish ladders had to be built in the dams to assist the salmon returning to spawn in their native streams.
2  The rub is that Google owns several patents related to MapReduce and other data center technologies that have spawned widely used open source projects
3  The same glacier spawned an iceberg twice that size two years ago. Together, the breaks made a large change that's got the attention of researchers.
4  The site's constant stream of experiences, opinions and sentiments has spawned a vast commercial ecosystem, serving up putative insights to product developers, Hollywood studios, major retailers and other investors.
5  The new economic freedom has spawned hundreds of new small businesses.
6  New technology has spawned new business opportunities.