weeds

Example Sentences

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Documents obtained by the Creek Team detail chemicals used in 2024 to “eradicate nuisance weeds” in flood control channels, or “washes,” as many Southern Californians know them.

From Los Angeles Times

“She’s ensnared in a tangle of weeds. They’re caught within her fur, and she cannot escape, Handsome!”

From Literature

I kept the weeds hoed out of Mama’s garden.

From Literature

There were plants to prop up that had toppled over in the wind, weeds to pull, strawberries to nibble, and a huge bunch of bananas just green enough to pick.

From Literature

I went to them to look for the pretty weeds and wildflowers that grew in between the rows of people who lived lives long and short before me.

From Salon