And this was because during some centuries intellectual power, enterprise, and energy were steadily weeded out by a rigorous process of negative selection.
Sometimes heweeded the garden or threshed the corn.
Supposing Tommy Trout had gone and weeded Farmer Swede's garden, and brought back his weeds to go to seed on the Tailor's flower-beds, how do you think he would have liked it?
The track is smoothed and weeded and ballasted as if it were the London and North-Western.
But for the ceaseless care with which the whole line is scraped and weeded it would soon become impassable.
While he dug or weeded he whistled or sang bits of Yorkshire moor songs or talked to Soot or Captain or the brothers and sisters he had taught to help him.
She searched about until she found a rather sharp piece of wood and knelt down and dug and weeded out the weeds and grass until she made nice little clear places around them.
The father had bought old books literally by the cart-load at auction, and had weeded from the masses of rubbish such things as promised to be saleable.
The conductor of the singing-class weeded Paul out at the close of the first glee, and brought his musical ambitions to an end.
A dream floated before him, of comfortable little dwellings for the workers, each with its little garden and its well-weeded paths.
She weeded and worked in the garden with her customary energy, and by degrees acquired a fair knowledge of the work; but it did not seem to afford her any peculiar enjoyment.
I honestly believe he thinks a heap of our bunch, since it's been weeded out.
Already he had weeded out three aspirants for honors on the eleven, who had shown no genuine aptitude for the exciting game where headwork and footwork combined go to bring success.
I guess not," said Gretta looking up at Happie from her knees as she weeded the lettuce with eyes full of dog-like devotion and admiration.
The yams were weeded with a hoe made of a plate of tortoise-shell or the valve of a large oyster.
When this happens in soft ground that can be hoed and weeded it matters less, but in the lawn it is a more serious matter.
In agreement with the medical authorities, the number of female nurses at Scutari was raised to 50, and Miss Nightingale weeded out some of her original staff in favour of new-comers.
All working correspondence files should be weeded out at intervals to remove matter of transient interest and to relieve congestion.
By this means large bundles of stuff which have only a nucleus of useful matter can be weeded out, and the price arranged according to the result.
The biographies of nonentities in the individual biography class may, however, be weeded pretty freely and frequently after they are from forty to fifty years old.
Pamphlet collections should be weeded out more frequently than book collections.
She weeded the row across from Mr. Alder, where he could see what she was doing.
She has weeded two whole rows of carrots, I know that much.
Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart A root of ancient envy.
Bernays, for example, hasweeded out not a few from the text of Goethe.
The inefficient are weeded out and flung downward.
Numerous wild plants also spring up, and in June these are weeded out; the success of the crop greatly depending upon the thoroughness with which this is done.
I chopped wood, and cleaned chicken houses, and weeded vegetables, and did most everything on the place.
But the adverse chances had beenweeded out and weeded out to the irreducible minimum of risk.
The battalions in the Brigade were ordered to be weeded out of all men unable to perform steady and continuous marching, and we accordingly had to leave a goodly number of lame ducks behind in charge of Major Panton.
I was meaning to tell you, though, Swift; it is an essential part of my story.
And since observation is in direct opposition to his assertion, his followers have been obliged to supplement it with the conception that pain is gradually weeded out by natural selection.
Peter had weeded her garden the day before, and mowed her lawn; and he had looked such a little fellow, running that lawn-mower out there in the sun!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weeded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
