How to Use tumbleweed in a Sentence

tumbleweed

noun

• Some people spent part of their New Year's Eve trapped in tumbleweeds.
  — CBS News, 2 Jan. 2020
• Adams, who has blown around the basketball scene in West Texas like a tumbleweed for decades, is a Tech man through and through.
  — Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2022
• All that was missing was a tumbleweed blowing across the 50-yard line.
  — Shannon Ryan, chicagotribune.com, 24 Oct. 2020
• Events like public protests roll past like tumbleweed and are gone from sight.
  — Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
• Along the way, they are assisted by Sage (Keanu Reeves – yes), who is a wise tumbleweed.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2021
• Along the way, they are assisted by Sage (Keanu Reeves — yes), who is a wise tumbleweed.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2021
• Tumbleweeds of dog hair no longer blow across our living room floor.
  — Greg Trotter, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2017
• This Tumbleweed model, by virtue of its size, could house a homeless mother and child at the least.
  — Michael J. Fallon, The Mercury News, 4 May 2017
• The desert is flat, boring and grows nothing but tumbleweeds.
  — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 4 Mar. 2020
• A few blocks away, a plastic bag fluttered like a tumbleweed across Main Street.
  — Courant Community, 22 Aug. 2017
• The series has varied its title sequence over the years, and the tumbleweed made its debut in the fourth episode of the first season.
  — Rich Heldenfels, Star Tribune, 15 Mar. 2021
• For the past few decades, the tumbleweed town has been owned by members of a single family.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 16 June 2018
• The film feels as though it was put together the way a tumbleweed snatches up stray leaves and feathers.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 25 Aug. 2022
• Dry riverbeds of sand and tumbleweeds that snake their way through farmers’ fields now charge with water swelling up their banks.
  — Scott Smith, The Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2017
• Toward the end of my hourlong drive up from L.A., an actual tumbleweed rolled along the shoulder of the 101.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Feb. 2020
• Along with the cast iron, Wolf brings long tongs, a wooden spoon, a cutting board, a knife and a natural tumbleweed-style fire starter.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2022
• Call the smiley-face mission a tumbleweed; call it a snowball.
  — Leslie Barker, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2021
• One antelope mount sits on a pedestal with an old, weathered fence post, barbed wire and tumbleweed.
  — Christine Peterson, idahostatesman, 23 Oct. 2017
• Empty miles unfold along the highway, where tufts of tumbleweed gust by.
  — Eric Ogden, Marie Claire, 10 June 2019
• One gunman gets away and scours the desert in search of Jimmy and Mike, but Mike lines up a shot and snipes the man through his car window, as his truck rolls like a tumbleweed down the dirt road.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Apr. 2022
• Flopping pervades the playoffs like tumbleweeds on a dusty desert plain.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• There will be tumbleweeds blowing through the Rose Bowl when Oregon State visits.
  — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2019
• The roadway in both directions was closed for more than 10 hours Tuesday in order for the tumbleweeds to be removed.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 2 Jan. 2020
• At the bottom of the basin the Husqvarna had enough power to roll that nasty mess into a large tumbleweed for easy disposal.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
• The state patrol said vehicles were trapped on a Washington state highway in a pile of tumbleweeds that stood up to 30 feet tall in some places.
  — CBS News, 2 Jan. 2020
• Two of these tumbleweeds interbred at some point to form a new species, Salsola ryanii, which is about 5 feet in height and nearly as wide.
  — Douglas Main, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2016
• Twenty five years ago, The Big Lebowski blew into theaters like a tumbleweed on an empty street.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2023
• The image of a tumbleweed rolling across a dusty Western expanse is as American as apple pie—but, of course, less palatable.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 Sep. 2019
• To lighten the endemic grim, pop colors frequently emerge among the sand and tumbleweeds.
  — Lila Seidman, Glendale News-Press, 23 Oct. 2019
• But along the way, readers discover that tumbleweed was transported from Europe, black-eyed peas arrived aboard slave ships, and both gardens and children need patience and grace.
  — Maisie Sparks, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2023

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024