Example Sentences

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A farmer had been spraying a weedkiller, Roundup, on a few “volunteer” soft white wheat plants that had sprouted, weedlike, in a 125-acre field he was trying to leave fallow.

From BusinessWeek • Jun. 20, 2013

This led to an erosion of pastoral values and encouraged the weedlike growth of indiscriminate commercialism and technology.

From Time Magazine Archive

A perpetual pessimist, the Fed chief has for the past year been nipping at inflation he sees hidden in the economy's weedlike growth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Welcome relief from the weedlike academicism that is choking American criticism were V. S. Pritchett's urbane, pleasant but acute essays on English writers in The Living Novel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then I behold the mediæval marketplace hunched against the building, burying the foundations, the life of man growing rank and weedlike around it.

From The Art of the Moving Picture by Lindsay, Vachel