These movies may not have had an impact musically, but they did spawn a generation of breakdancers.

Why have we spawned a generation of people with a constant need for exposure?

They were the masters of arthouse films, spawning a generation of cinema buffs who sprinkled conversations with references to some of the world's most abstruse directors.

In recent years such deals have become commonplace and spawned a generation of so-called private equity financiers who have raised many hundred of millions to fund similar ventures.

The country and folk-influenced style associated with the latter-half of 1960s rock music spawned a generation of popular singer-songwriters who wrote and performed their own work.