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Example sentences for "weedy"

Lexicographically close words:
weeders; weedes; weeding; weedless; weeds; week; weekday; weekdays; weeke; weekend
  1. The moth may be found in weedy lanes and along hedgerows, pretty well throughout England, Wales, Scotland to Moray, and Ireland.

  2. Its haunts are fens, marshes, and water-meads, but in Middlesex I have taken a specimen or two flying along a weedy ditch.

  3. Weedy ditches, hedge banks, or moist waste places, are the favourite resorts of the moth; and when one example is flushed from its lurking place, others are almost certain to be hiding in the immediate vicinity.

  4. See from the weedy earth a rivulet break.

  5. Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.

  6. She was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning.

  7. He stood staggering to recover his balance for a moment, and as he did so, he became aware that the struggle and the inflowing tide had carried them close upon the weedy rocks again.

  8. Whatever was pinkish of it was now hidden by a skerry of weedy boulders.

  9. If anything was for pulling and clearing it was this weedy thicket of messy ideas in a landscape heavy in leanings toward sleep.

  10. He remained watching the crab for some few minutes, and then looked straight along the line, which washed up and down on a piece of rock as the waves came softly in, bearing that peculiar sea-weedy scent from the shore.

  11. He wanted experience too, and the knowledge that the steps, that were washed by every tide, were covered with a peculiar green weedy growth that was very slippery.

  12. I am sure you know the frog well enough, and you may even have heard the harsh croak from which it has its name, as you have passed some damp meadow or weedy pond, on a summer evening.

  13. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side?

  14. The voices outside were now raised, and he could hear the tramp of several other men over the moss-grown stones of the weedy courtyard.

  15. Half an hour later, just before the first flush of dawn, the two men entered the weedy courtyard, and Ansell let himself in with his key.

  16. The door was in the center of the house; a weedy path led from its crooked step, between two patches of weedy grass, to the gate in the fence.

  17. These last did not go together, like the perch, in serried ranks at a furious hunting pace, but slunk along one by one from stone to stone, and from weedy clump to weedy clump.

  18. One morning it suddenly bursts through and lights up the forest of stalks in the yellow, weedy margin.

  19. But looking out of the window of the room facing south, he noticed that the foliage of the thicket beyond the weedy path was violently disturbed.

  20. Rush was tramping along the weedy path leading to the southern end of the island.

  21. Spike concentrated his gaze on a weedy young emigrant in a blue jersey, who was having his eye examined by the overworked doctor and seemed to be resenting it.

  22. Once it had undoubtedly been well kept and cared for, but today the cattle grazing on that weedy ground drank from it, for round the mud showed prints of hoofs.

  23. The males were calling from temporary grassy and weedy ponds in which Hyla microcephala also was calling, but the two species had different calling sites.

  24. Eight tadpoles were collected from a weedy temporary pond near Chepo, Panama, in early June.

  25. Later, we discovered a few round, deep, weedy waterholes down on the flat, which in rainy weather swelled to a stream which swept all before it.

  26. We see nothing at the castle but the wide boggy plain, the distant naked hills, and the weedy pond under the castle walls.

  27. Therefore we must seek out a weedy pool if we would increase the variety of our collection.

  28. There's a weedy little bight up there where I predict a two- pound bass in twenty minutes.

  29. He came to one bare spot, perhaps an acre in extent, and was about to leave the shelter of the brush for the comparatively easy going of the weedy grass, when, almost opposite him, he saw a figure emerge from the trees.

  30. Ken found the trail of the jaguar, followed it up to the edge of the brush, and lost it in the weedy flat.

  31. Birds of many kinds skimmed the weedy flats.

  32. Bursting through this, the boys saw a weedy flat leading into a wide, shallow back-eddy.

  33. For, in the weedy cellar, thick The ruined chimney's mass of brick Lies strown.

  34. Luncheon, after the morning's work, was a frugal meal except for Gautier, who had developed from a weedy youth into a giant with a Gargantuan appetite.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weedy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.