How to Use weedy in a Sentence

weedy

adjective

• Fill bare or weedy spots in the lawn with the help of summer rains.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 May 2018
• But the wild, weedy overgrowth of the Peak TV era is yielding fruit, too.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• From there, my partner and I walked to the weedy banks of the Zimbabwean canyon.
  — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2023
• Northern pike have been active on the weedy flats and drop-off zones.
  — Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
• The lake is dotted with islands, rocky points, clay banks and weedy bays.
  — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 July 2017
• During a recent tour, a black piece of plastic the size of a barrel marred the weedy edge of the pond.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 July 2017
• What’s the difference between a lush food plot and a weedy patch of dirt?
  — Tony Hansen, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2019
• Small, weedy islands appear in the Butte Creek flow here.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
• July is a good time to fill in bare or now weedy spots left by cold, drought or pests.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 June 2018
• The jet, which for years lured Elvis fans to a weedy old runway in Roswell, N.M, is now up for auction.
  — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 22 May 2017
• The beautiful garden is torn up and goes bleak and weedy.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 12 Oct. 2018
• Black crappies are found in large ponds, as well as clear, deep, weedy, and cold reservoirs.
  — Popular Science, 1 June 2020
• The ground cherry, a species of Physalis, is a weedy plant native to the Americas.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2018
• Consumer tastes have evolved over the last 30 years, and many people would describe these wines as lean and weedy.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
• The route then winds down toward Mexican Hay Lake, which is rarely more than a weedy bog.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 19 June 2018
• Spring creeks tend to be weedy with flowing green plants like elodea and watercress.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
• The empty swimming pool and weedy basketball courts gave the place a kind of haunted charm.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
• Although the straight species of black gum can be a bit weedy, newer cultivars such as ‘Wild Fire’ don’t go to seed.
  — oregonlive, 3 Nov. 2020
• The station comprised two chargers on the far weedy fringes of a nearly empty Jack in the Box parking lot.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
• For bass, throw jigs and plastics into rocky or weedy cover.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 8 June 2018
• Mowing can help control the weeds but seldom is the total answer to the weedy lawn problem.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Dec. 2020
• Researchers sequenced the genomes of leafy and weedy sea dragons and compared them with other fish.
  — New York Times, 7 July 2022
• For nonriders, this might get a bit weedy, but bear with me: The Bobber has a 29-degree front fork rake, and a trail of 5.2 inches.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• If not managed, the plants can become weedy and aggressive.
  — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 24 Apr. 2021
• In the eyes of the BLM, pinyon pine and juniper trees are weedy species that invade sagebrush rangelands and increase the risk of wildfire.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• Now is a great time to repair weedy spots in your lawn, but don’t expect the good grass to quickly creep into large bare areas.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Nov. 2021
• On weedy shorelines, beds will begin just outside the deepest weeds.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2020
• Is there a weedy section of lawn that could be replaced with a perennial garden?
  — Monica Cardoza, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
• So, in this experiment, Roberts and her students cleared around two acres of grass and poison ivy and shrubs and just kind of weedy non-native species from a streamside that was on campus.
  — Sophie McNulty, Scientific American, 13 June 2024
• Barring that, swimming in deeper waters is less risky, since larvae are commonly found in shallow or weedy waters by the shoreline.
  — Divya Murthy, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2024

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024