When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.    From LearnThat.org.  [William Hazlitt (1778-1830).]

The fields vegetate vigorously.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

After a hard day's work, I vegetate in front of the television.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used without object), : to lie on the beach and vegetate.    From Dictionary.com. 

The colony was left to vegetate in absolute poverty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference

Would you like to vegetate like your dear good mother at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

I do my homework, and then vegetate until the busses come.    From Wordnik.com.  [super-suzan Diary Entry] Reference

The place where the capillary substance ought to vegetate.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference

I just watch Bond films on TNN in my spare time and vegetate.    From Wordnik.com.  [badger Diary Entry] Reference

So there's evidence that if you don't just vegetate you can do some good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview Of The President By Dan Rather Of Cbs News] Reference

I geuss I could vegetate in my room but I just don't feel like that today.    From Wordnik.com.  [super-suzan Diary Entry] Reference

Out of 100 nuts, only two-thirds, on an average, will be found to vegetate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

Must not the inhabitants vegetate dully after the style of their own bananas?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropic Days] Reference

Eastern varieties began to vegetate or burst into growth April 15; Mayette and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916.] Reference

Going to work, come home, hole myself in my dark, dark room and just vegetate.    From Wordnik.com.  [rant of the week] Reference

The seeds seldom vegetate well if sown late in spring, or during warm, dry weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Baldwin caused me to note that no pecans started to vegetate at Baldwin before May.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twelfth Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 6 and 7, 1921] Reference

The grain is made to vegetate, dried in the sun, pounded into meal, and gently boiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries] Reference

The origin of the truffle is unknown; they are found, but none know how they vegetate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.] Reference

Only she had known if she stayed where she was, doing what she was doing, she'd vegetate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breakfast In Bed]

The mass of the people South don't live, sir! they vegetate -- vegetate and nothing else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

Churches with such doors as those in their walls need not be expected to vegetate, nor to die.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 10, October, 1890] Reference

The seeds vegetate in forty days, and are planted out in the second or third month afterwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

But her mother doesn't want to go, says she'd rather die in Wiltshire than vegetate in Alicante.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satan Bug]

"Sure, Dan's out on the town with the lovely Molly while you and I vegetate here and talk shop.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tek Kill]

They are organized and vegetate; but being incapable of sensation, do not properly possess life.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

The sun in autumn may be bright and clear, but the seed which has not been sown until then will not vegetate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference

MCKAY: Yes, we find in those seedlings in some cases the tendency to vegetate very early and others very late.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference

You are forced to vegetate, rather than live, within the narrow confines of an uninviting and unhealthy quarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

I've already turned the 3 day weekend into a 4 and will probably make it 5 just to have a day to vegetate at home.    From Wordnik.com.  [badger Diary Entry] Reference

The seeds vegetate without any other care, though the more industrious annually remove the weeds and manure the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827] Reference

The seeds should be sown in August, or immediately after ripening; as, when sown in spring, they seldom vegetate well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

And there we sat, answering all the same questions over and over again, until we were left to vegetate in an interview room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grave Surprise]

Though they will sometimes vegetate when kept for a longer period, they are not considered good when more than two years old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

MACDANIELS: The best solution to the frost damage problem is to find trees which vegetate late enough to avoid the spring frosts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference

Oh, no, mother, I was not born to vegetate forever in one place, and to live and die as calm and tranquil as -- a puddle of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference

When cultivated, the seeds should be sown soon after ripening, as they vegetate best when exposed to the action of frost during winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

She returned, as might have been expected, with ideas and desires far beyond the hill-side cottage where she was condemned to vegetate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861] Reference

Here I am, you see, keeping Christmas, and having no end of fun amongst the jolly innocent grubs that vegetate in these rural districts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841] Reference