WEED in a Sentence
Learn WEED from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
109 example sentences for WEED, such as:
1. There were weeds sprawling in the yard.
2. You should weed the garden before supper.
3. The garden's completely overgrown with weeds.
4. He dragged out another weed and scowled at it.
5. The weed had twined itself round the branches.
2. You should weed the garden before supper.
3. The garden's completely overgrown with weeds.
4. He dragged out another weed and scowled at it.
5. The weed had twined itself round the branches.
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Meanings and Examples of WEED
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weed
n. street names for marijuana
v. clear of weeds
Classic Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
1 The wheat crop was full of weeds, and it was discovered that on one of his nocturnal visits Snowball had mixed weed seeds with the seed corn.
2 I'm no castaway, I'd have you know, Sir; no fishtailed mermaid with a robe of sea weed, at your mercy.
3 I chucked up my job at Butterley because I thought I was a weed, clerking there: and I got on as overhead blacksmith at Tevershall: shoeing horses mostly.
4 One evening when he was thus standing in the garden, abstractedly spudding up a weed with his stick, a bony figure turned the corner of the house and came up to him.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
5 Our agriculture and horticulture destroy a weed just here and there and cultivate perhaps a score or so of wholesome plants, leaving the greater number to fight out a balance as they can.
6 If the green and yellow growth of weed in the chinks of the old wall had been the most precious flowers that ever blew, it could not have been more cherished in my remembrance.
7 When the Doctor and I were engaged, he now fell into the custom of walking up and down with Mrs. Strong, and helping her to trim her favourite flowers, or weed the beds.
8 What he considered necessary was to cover all the furniture with cretonne, to put up curtains, to weed the garden, to make a little bridge on the pond, and to plant flowers.
9 Ben Weatherstaff rooted up a weed and threw it aside before he answered.
10 He dragged out another weed and scowled at it.
11 When he had inhaled enough of the fragrance of the soothing weed, he passed the instrument into the hands of the scout.
12 These twin lines of somber trees were his, his the abandoned lawn, waist high in weeds under white-starred young magnolia trees.
13 The lawn, reclaimed from weeds, grew thick with clover and Bermuda grass, and Gerald saw to it that it was well kept.
14 Pine Bloom looked straggly and overgrown with weeds, seedling pines were beginning to show in the fields and the house was sagging and untidy.
15 He knew his slaves were free now and the farm gone to weeds and seedling pines.
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1 You know, what you call a weed, to one man it's a flower.
2 He had finished gouging out a cob, and now he fitted a weed stem to it, loaded it with tobacco, and was pressing a coal to the charge and blowing a cloud of fragrant smoke -- he was in the full bloom of luxurious contentment.
3 She would premeditate the murder for months, reading about common poisons and buying weed killer that contained arsenic.
4 We must weed out the yellow flowers among the onions as soon as possible.
5 You should weed the garden before supper.
6 The weed had twined itself round the branches.
7 Some current bar officials say the high attrition rate shows that these schools are rigorous enough to weed out students who have little chance of success.
8 The aim is to weed out employees who are unsatisfied with their job and looking for a golden parachute.
9 The chemical was almost totally ineffective in killing the weeds.
10 Routine maintenance of the garden consists of keeping weeds under control.
11 There were weeds sprawling in the yard.
12 The garden's completely overgrown with weeds.
13 The peasants ploughed the weeds in the field back to enrich the soil.
14 A man of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
15 The garden will be overgrown with weeds by the time we get back.