For a moment, he thought the creature would grow violent again.
Perhaps he had let the creature grow too large.
It is possible the two creatures might eventually grow large enough to destroy the planet.
The creatures are probably growing their food down there.
The moment she touched the wire, the creature grew quiet.
Each creature grew and aged and even died as a whole.
How could any creature grow to such enormous size?
She stood there watching as the creatures grew closer and larger.
Such creatures may have grown down as well as up.
Since that is what he or it can't do any longer: this creature beside me has died, and so can never again grow.