"It has been three years since the growth covered his farm."
A month's growth of untended beard covered half his face.
A dense, fine growth of hair covers his scalp, or would if he didn't keep it cropped very short.
Currently a rampant growth of ivy covers the tower.
Cuts made now will not show, as the new growth will cover them, and the soft green will mature.
A week's growth of beard covered his strong jaw.
The growth in the head was unmoving now, but covering still a vast amount of the brain, squatting within it like a huge spider.
It was bright pink where a new growth of skin; a patch covered the empty eye socket.
In every direction, a thick, coarse, grass-like growth covered the ground.
A gray growth, neither hair nor feathers but something in between, covered the entire hide.