overgrown

How To Use overgrown In A Sentence

• We sat in the leafy, overgrown garden, where wild herbs and flowers spiced the air and the mismatched tables were topped with salvaged mosaic tiles. Smithsonian Mag
• I sprinted through brambles and thorned blackberry bushes and pushed my way past overgrown, waist-high swordfern.
• Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. The Scarlet Letter
• It is the other side of a public bridle path and almost overgrown with vicious brambles. Times, Sunday Times
• The tumbledown exterior walls were smothered with moss and ivy, and many of the original features, including fragments from the first-floor medieval loo - known as the garderobe - were strewn around the overgrown garden.
• Wherever apples grow in this country you can find a home in your town or suburb with a huge overgrown apple tree in the backyard that has not been cared for in many years.
• Once flowering is over, lift and divide overgrown clumps of bearded irises. Times, Sunday Times
• But while the Georgian house has been kept in peak condition, the 260 acres of landscaped grounds have become overgrown and wild.
• People who live in areas of the southeastern United States where kudzu has overgrown everything have little good to say about this Japanese import.
• They offer an up-close view of a life-size, red-blue-and-white clad young woman in an overgrown ravine before a chain-link fence.