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

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

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

The fields vegetate vigorously.    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

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

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 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

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

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]

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

"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]

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