How To Use Overgrown In A Sentence
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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
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It is the other side of a public bridle path and almost overgrown with vicious brambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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.
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Once flowering is over, lift and divide overgrown clumps of bearded irises.
Times, Sunday Times
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But while the Georgian house has been kept in peak condition, the 260 acres of landscaped grounds have become overgrown and wild.
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People who live in areas of the southeastern United States where kudzu has overgrown everything have little good to say about this Japanese import.
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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.
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One of my fences is overgrown with clematis, jasmine, climbing roses and ivy.
Stumped? How to raise a lawn, plus overgrown perennials
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An audible hissing pop accompanied the loosening of the last bolt, and at the sight of my leprous fore-arms and the great plates of scabrous horn which have overgrown my chest, the roust-abouts screamed like a pair of God-damned fat ladies.
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He lived with the same aesthetic as that of his work – fine linen, worn leather, superb works of art and a few cartoons, buddleia and bamboo in the overgrown garden and the residue of paint carried down from the studio.
Lucian Freud obituary
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It was two acres overgrown with stinging nettles and we spent a year putting it right.
Times, Sunday Times
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That is akin to saying that a garden is too overgrown to be worth weeding.
Times, Sunday Times
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Favourite spots for sneaked assignations are empty classrooms, deserted corridors and overgrown lots.
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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
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Metal shutters cover the windows and the bungalow's garden is overgrown.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dover, Delaware The house, overgrown with weeds and shrubbery, had no ostentation.
MAMBO
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Some organisms, including sponges, barnacles, and encrusting coralline algae, can, however, survive overgrowth, without apparent damage, for indeterminate periods of time or may even benefit from being overgrown.
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In the distance you can see a number of rambling, overgrown hawthorns with a tree growing through them.
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The fence would be a visual improvement to the existing chestnut pale fence and overgrown plants which currently exist.
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We hope that by cutting hedgerows we will make ginnels safer and make it more difficult for burglars to work without the cover that overgrown hedges provide.
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Beyond the buildings were five acres of overgrown garden and meadow.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ruins are part of a beautiful and romantically overgrown walled garden, with grass and benches.
Times, Sunday Times
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Right or wrong, Rumour was very busy; and Lord Decimus, while he was, or was supposed to be, in stately excogitation of the difficulty, lent her some countenance by taking, on several public occasions, one of those elephantine trots of his through a jungle of overgrown sentences, waving
Little Dorrit
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Since the neighbor's property is a bit overgrown with low bamboo it was a quite a tussle doing all that and then wrestling the tree lengths back onto my property.
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The trees were mostly birches, with here and there a twisted trunk of alder, overgrown with bramble and honeysuckle.
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The stream is well overgrown with willow and more.
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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
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I sprinted through brambles and thorned blackberry bushes and pushed my way past overgrown, waist-high swordfern.
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Before I could protest or even defend myself, she left in search of the overgrown schoolboy.
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When can I divide an overgrown penstemon and take some cuttings?
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Excavation ceased in the 1950s and the area is now overgrown with woodland, bracken and gorse which provides a habitat for birds, snakes and mammals.
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In the middle stood a small mound, looking as if it had been made artificially, with a kind of arbour on the top overgrown with some sort of creeper and shut in by trees.
Chatterbox, 1905.
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Beyond these rose a further wall of mountain, the lower heights still overgrown with beautiful grass and plants, above which were stonier slopes, covered only with scrub, that led gradually up to the steep, bare rocky summits.
Heidi
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But if she had to liken him to anything it would be an overgrown teddy bear in determined pursuit of his honey.
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Pike spawn during March and April in the shallow weedy margins of lakes and in the tiny overgrown backwaters of rivers.
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They acted more like huge flightless birds of prey, than the overgrown bipedal lizards of popular imagination.
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Old shrubs, such as spiraea, forsythia, lilac, and honeysuckle, often become overgrown and full of crowded stems and dead wood.
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There's no way I can get closer, not wearing summer sandals anyway, for between me and the orchid is an overgrown ditch.
Country diary: South Uist
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Everything was overgrown with the same creeper vines, fungi and lichen that the old fences were.
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All around the horse corral, it was overgrown with viny bushes and thick rooted willows.
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The yard was as neglected as the rest of the property, the grass and bushes overgrown, the leaves unraked from the previous fall, which made the footing even trickier, especially since they were moving downhill.
Whispers At Midnight
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While most of the graves are lovingly tended, many others are overgrown, unkempt and desecrated.
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Beyond the buildings were five acres of overgrown garden and meadow.
Times, Sunday Times
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The field is overgrown with weeds.
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Like a wingless albatross I plummeted two storeys into an overgrown plumbago.
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The interior - a quadrangle of rooms giving off an overgrown cloister garth - had something of the air of Custer's Last Stand.
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But I usually insist that it has some tune, and that the main performer isn't some overgrown choirboy with a twatty face covered in craters.
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Villages built by aid money stand alongside the overgrown ruins of their predecessors.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the distance you can see a number of rambling, overgrown hawthorns with a tree growing through them.
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The ruins are part of a beautiful and romantically overgrown walled garden, with grass and benches.
Times, Sunday Times
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Metal shutters cover the windows and the bungalow's garden is overgrown.
Times, Sunday Times
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Landscape gardeners have begun a clearance of the overgrown ground to make way for a new park.
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Explore an overgrown old road bed through shady buttonwoods and open coastal salt prairie.
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I was leaning against the side of the house, just at the edge of the overgrown yard.
LOST BOY LOST GIRL
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I walked through the garden, noting how overgrown it was, and how the house was in poor condition.
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That wasn't hard - the aggressor in question was the size of an overgrown cat.
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Italian hound; Andy Pay and Mulligan Jacobs, the bitter ones; the three topaz-eyed dreamers, who are unclassifiable; Isaac Chantz, the wounded Jew; Bob, the overgrown dolt; the feeble-minded Faun, lung-wounded;
CHAPTER XLIII
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Cut back overgrown specimens of spotted laurel, bay, box, fatsia, skimmia and evergreen cotoneaster.
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In fact, the bushes are uneven in setting out and in growth, unkempt and massively overgrown.
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All very funny for the overgrown schoolboys responsible.
The Sun
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-- A man should so deliver himself to the nature of the subject whereof he speaks, that his hearer may take knowledge of his discipline with some delight; and so apparel fair and good matter, that the studious of elegancy be not defrauded; redeem arts from their rough and braky seats, where they lay hid and overgrown with thorns, to a pure, open, and flowery light, where they may take the eye and be taken by the hand.
Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
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On the way back, I almost slid down the hill, past mansions behind old red-brick walls overgrown with wisteria, hedges of this and that, little verandahed weatherboard cottages and stark new houses with vertical slit windows, pre-rusted metal doors and plantings of cordyline and dianella.
Archive 2006-12-01
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Three overgrown schoolboys doing wild things and providing hilarious entertainment.
Times, Sunday Times
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The new house had a back garden, 100 foot long and desperately overgrown.
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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
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Grown men and women can behave like overgrown kids who don't seem to worry about their behaviour abroad.
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But the search is hard because the area is mountainous and overgrown.
The Sun
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Dover, Delaware The house, overgrown with weeds and shrubbery, had no ostentation.
MAMBO
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As the overgrown man-child Adam, he won hearts with his pursuit of Helen Baxendale through six series until her brutal connection with the front end of a truck.
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When I came back from my long vacation, I found my garden overgrown.
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A chasm runs through his overgrown lawn.
Times, Sunday Times
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I found an overgrown running track with interesting succulent plants and dwarf tamarisk bushes.
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The dust on the rutty overgrown road turned to muddy deep puddles as the rain set in and, on evenings when the skies cleared a little, killdeer and nighthawks could be heard once more.
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The pristine, overgrown garden had sat empty for decades.
Times, Sunday Times
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Overgrown hedges, bollards, café chairs and holes in the pavement are just some of the problems faced by the visually impaired.
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The far side is overgrown and quite inaccessible.
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Overgrown deciduous shrubs can be cut back at this time of year.
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But perhaps more than ever there are many moorland paths overgrown with the heather.
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In one early scene in the book he is dangling in a harness fifty feet above the water level of an overgrown limestone cenote, or sinkhole, deep in the jungle of the Dominican Republic.
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Lake of overgrown with weeds opens port and Anhui the development Wang Heming of latter-day economy is in latter-day China's numerous treaty port.
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The flower plant has overgrown its support.
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A walk through the gallery may make you feel that you are in an overgrown village.
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In the bottom of Radland valley, along the millstream, overgrown laurel and box hedges sprawl beneath the weight of snow and will remain in shadow all day.
Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
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It was a grass verge and the grass was overgrown.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even unto this day, it is all overgrown with vines, and flowers grow where once there must have been gardens.
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The octagon, with its east-facing entrance, resembled an overgrown hooghan.
Yellow Dirt
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Especially in that the seasons have been proper to bring up and set forward other more hasty and indifferent plants, whereby this of knowledge bath been starved and overgrown; for in the descent of times always there hath been somewhat else in reign and reputation, which hath generally aliened and diverted wits and labours from that employment.
Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature
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Obviously the kaid who built such a kasbah was a great man: his garden, a beautiful overgrown wilderness, gone like his castle to rack and ruin, lay below at
In the Tail of the Peacock
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The pristine, overgrown garden had sat empty for decades.
Times, Sunday Times
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Council of Governors" to help "synchronize" policy regarding foreign and domestic military operations doesn't merely add another redundant layer of bureaucracy to the overgrown Homeland Security apparatus.
Pro Libertate
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September and October are ideal for dividing overgrown perennials.
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The garden's completely overgrown with weeds.
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Government cutbacks and legal tripwires have conspired to see the town park overgrown and uncared for.
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A city without the ambition to reshape the skyline through breathtaking architecture will never be more than an overgrown town.
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I had a sudden premonition of the proud tower reduced to a pile of rubble overgrown by the plants that had rooted in its mossy crevices.
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In general, the spaces between the lagoons and the river are thickly wooded (the trees consisting principally of the blue gum of a large growth), and are overgrown with vines of various descriptions, and the fern, the peppermint, flax plant, and currajong.
A Source Book of Australian History
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Darby has the wide-eyed, infectious humour of an overgrown schoolboy.
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Beyond the buildings were five acres of overgrown garden and meadow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because the canopy is relatively open here, the vegetation is often overgrown with rattan vine, greenbrier, wild grape, pepper vine, trumpet creeper, Virginia creeper, and poison ivy.
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We trek along overgrown jungle paths towards the river where the elephants have slept.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of them had already been cleared of grass and weeds and topsoil, but some, farther back, remained overgrown.
AFTERMATH
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The council claims the new wall is replacing existing concrete post and rail fencing, which was unsightly and which had become overgrown with weeds.
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They act like a pair of overgrown children .
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I boiled the water for the tea and looked out the kitchen window into the backyard and saw it to be neglected and overgrown with weeds.
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If perennials like agapanthus, candytuft, coreopsis, daylilies, and penstemon are overgrown or not flowering well, it's time to dig and divide them.
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The garden is completely overgrown and dumped with cookers, fridge-freezers and car parts and all the windows have been smashed.
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We cleared through this banking last winter, taking out or coppicing overgrown shrubs and controlling the undergrowth of brambles and ferns.
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Hugh's a downier bird than they think – not just an overgrown ex-fighter pilot with a crafty streak.
The Alamut Ambush
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They are inhabited by overgrown schoolboys still playing with their toys, needy women who fear reality, and those who run a mile from anyone with a problem.
Times, Sunday Times
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Council machinery will clear and level the derelict overgrown area so that landscaping can start.
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In this I include not only the stations but also a lot of the trackside which is often overgrown where it isn't strewn with litter and debris.
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The animals tend to base themselves on wasteland or in overgrown gardens.
Times, Sunday Times
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We trek along overgrown jungle paths towards the river where the elephants have slept.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was two acres overgrown with stinging nettles and we spent a year putting it right.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scrub that borders the tracks is overgrown with kudzu, an imported plant that strangles the natives.
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It was probably easier to sail to other islands than traverse from one end of an island to the other through the overgrown vegetation of tropical woodlands.
Times, Sunday Times
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All the hideous excrescences that have overgrown our modern life, the pomps and conventions and dreary solemnities, dread nothing so much as the flash of laughter which, like lightning, shrivels them up and leaves the bones bare.
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Somehow that thought doesn't seem so foreign, the way she's whimpering and carrying on like that, shaking and blubbering like an overgrown and very ugly baby.
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We walked a few streets to a little two-storey house surrounded by an overgrown garden.
BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
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‘We discovered all these terraces completely overgrown, under a jungle of vines and brambles,’ said Threipland.
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The place is crazily overgrown and the path that we cut is now only just passable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The house was nothing special, a tawdry semi-detached in a sprawling estate, with a broken front fence and an overgrown lawn.
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Open ditches line the streets of the neighborhood and run past overgrown lots and broken-down houses as well as freshly whitewashed cottages and one or two brand new trailers.
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They are not so delicate as the green spaces in China, but wild and overgrown with weeds.
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Twigs and leaves, from overgrown bushes - half hung in the road - bashed and feathered against his clothes.
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If perennials like agapanthus, candytuft, coreopsis, daylilies, and penstemon are overgrown or not flowering well, it's time to dig and divide them.
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The place is crazily overgrown and the path that we cut is now only just passable.
Times, Sunday Times
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John, like a great red-limbed overgrown moon-calf; and now here you are as sprack a squire and as lusty an archer as ever passed down the highway from Bordeaux, while I am still the same old Samkin Aylward, with never a change, save that I have a few more sins on my soul and a few less crowns in my pouch.
The White Company
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It is the other side of a public bridle path and almost overgrown with vicious brambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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In O'Hara's opinion there is no bigger turn-off than an overgrown plot and an unweeded driveway.
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Landscape gardeners have begun a clearance of the overgrown ground to make way for a new park.
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Since then the area has become overgrown with reeds and provides an important habitat for bird life.
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The ruins are now completely overgrown with shrubbery and valonia oaks.
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Multiple phases of zoned calcite are common, often truncated by a major dissolution surface overgrown by a late, granular calcite.
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The projecting ears were tufted, and the eyebrows bristled with greying unclipped hairs, forming an overgrown ridge above the eyes.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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thinly overgrown mountainside
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14th century Byzantine ramparts radiate from here, mostly overlooked by 20th century apartments, tavernas and cafes, yet it feels more like an overgrown village.
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Then he goes to the overgrown graveyard, begun in 1322 or thereabouts, of an English coastal town to search for her headstone!
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Villages built by aid money stand alongside the overgrown ruins of their predecessors.
Times, Sunday Times
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Through the darkness I could make out a modest, tan coloured house with an overgrown garden and grubby looking shudders drooping from the windows.
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Beyond this garden, abrupt, there was a grey stone wall overgrown with velvet moss that uprose as, gazing, Matthew stood long, all mazed and blinking, to see this place so eerie and fair.
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In addition, the cuticle of the fingernails often gets very ragged, overgrown, and irregular.
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We do have 40 acres of land containing overgrown colliery shale, fly tipping and flooded clay pits.
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Unchecked weeds sprouted wildly between the cracks in the pavements where overgrown and unruly front lawns had spilled over the remains of collapsed walls.
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However, in recent times the walkway including the adjacent river has fallen into decay with overgrown weeds, graffiti, dumping.
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As well as the majority of streetlights not working, it is still deeply unpleasant due mainly to being overgrown, as well as being persistently covered with litter and dog dirt.
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In the allotments, paths overgrown with nettles and docks are littered with squashed cans and chocolate wrappers between walls of rusting corrugated iron topped with barbed wire.
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He looked more like an overgrown schoolboy who had lost his satchel.
Times, Sunday Times
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The place is crazily overgrown and the path that we cut is now only just passable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The children spent a day earlier this year cleaning up the holy well, which had become overgrown with weeds, and put together a book detailing what they had done along with a history of the well.
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Look for seeds rotted in the soil that are soft and slimy to the touch or overgrown with other fungi and bacteria, giving the seed a fuzzy appearance.
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The backyard would be pretty if the plants weren't overgrown.
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Hall started as a sculptor, and it shows in her bulldozed reconfiguring of a Cape Cod meadow into undulating waves of earth and rock overgrown with wild grass.
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That is akin to saying that a garden is too overgrown to be worth weeding.
Times, Sunday Times
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The overgrown areas were finally mowed yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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The far side is overgrown and quite inaccessible.
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The marble tombs had been smashed open and the bones and skulls lay scattered carelessly around the overgrown graveyard.
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The majority of smaller towns are overgrown villages that show little effort to organize space or create an urban environment.
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Through the branches, and you reached an overgrown stone path that led to an ancient mulberry tree, falling in the shape of a weeping willow.
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So when lawn edges become overgrown and tatty, it can have an adverse effect on the look of the whole garden.
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He was not only giddy like an overgrown teenager, he was also a clever klepto.
Oscar Raymundo: Chaka Khan, Andy Cohen, and Alan Cumming Celebrate amfAR's 25th Anniversary at Ken Fulk's Studio
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It was a grass verge and the grass was overgrown.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ruins are part of a beautiful and romantically overgrown walled garden, with grass and benches.
Times, Sunday Times
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She came to a particularly shabby house and started to walk up the front path overgrown with moss.
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Three overgrown schoolboys doing wild things and providing hilarious entertainment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Colorless and transparent as well as white scalenohedra of a first generation are rarely overgrown by a second-generation rhombohedron and are twinned on { 0001 }.
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It is now so overgrown with vines and creepers that it has half returned to the jungle.
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He wasn't a man, only a big, overgrown boy, and he looked quite crazy and terrifying.
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I followed the path beside ancient overgrown hedges, heavy with elder blossom and sheltering patches of lady's bedstraw and betony, down to the banks of the river Wear where tree planting began this spring in lower-lying fields.
Country diary: Low Burnhall, Durham
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It had walls, but the beams within were mostly rotten, the roof had gone, it was structurally unsound and the site was entirely overgrown.
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The scrub that borders the tracks is overgrown with kudzu, an imported plant that strangles the natives.
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The answer, he was to find, lay not in the brushy fields - overgrown with multiflora rose, dogwood saplings, and autumn olive - where both species lived but in the differing ways the two rabbit species saw the landscape.
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A ForceFlex bag looks a bit like an overgrown paper towel, with row upon row of embossed diamond shapes.
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The house was a vast 1950s waterfall brick affair hanging off a hill and it was overgrown with the kinds of shrubs that everyone had in the 1950s; weigela, hibiscus, plumbago.
What I cooked last night.
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Spent the day writing and the afternoon standing in my overgrown back garden wearing a frilly white skirt and having shots taken of my muff to illustrate a piece about pubes in the first issue of Scarlet.
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The most characteristic feature of this species is the dorsal surface which, when not overgrown, is relatively flat with raised outer edges and pseudopores arranged in well-defined arcuate rows.
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The outer walls of the house are overgrown by vines.
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The house was a three bedroomed semi with a joint garden at the front and an overgrown jungle at the back where bushes and vines actually reached out of chest high grass to scratch and scrape at the back porch.
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Behind the hall was a deserted graveyard overgrown with weeds.
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Villages built by aid money stand alongside the overgrown ruins of their predecessors.
Times, Sunday Times
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The overgrown hedges in the village are to be attended to and the road junctions repainted following recent road works.
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Past the overgrown lawn, through the decrepit rose arbour and into the Wilderness.
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Old shrubs, such as spiraea, forsythia, lilac, and honeysuckle, often become overgrown and full of crowded stems and dead wood.
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All very funny for the overgrown schoolboys responsible.
The Sun
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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
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In parliament he resembles an overgrown schoolboy, chafing at his collar and tie.
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We're talking about the likes of overgrown public schoolboy Will Smith the one out of The Thick Of It, not the one from Men In Black; cricket enthusiast and star of BBC2's Rev Miles Jupp; and the often unfairly overlooked but sizzlingly entertaining Simon Evans.
This week's new comedy
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Rare marbled white butterflies flit along the overgrown route of the old track, and among the nettles and the briars there may be pyramidal and spotted orchids and unusual exotic species carried there years ago by the train.
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Unfortunately, the local scene, which should be supported, gets trashed and misrepresented by bitter, brainless writers in this overgrown club flyer you call a paper.
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One afternoon we passed over some abandoned terraces, their earth encrusted and overgrown with scratchy, sunburned weeds.
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The site was overgrown and there was refuse strewn about the area.
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The ground was overgrown with wide-spread bracken and tall, matured trees blocked the view to the surrounding buildings.
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He looked more like an overgrown schoolboy who had lost his satchel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nearly at the end of the second run White found himself on the edge of a narrow, deep ghyll, with a stream at the bottom, crossed by an overgrown footpath which went down to the stream and up again by flights of stone steps opposite each other.
Highways and Byways in Surrey
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If perennials like agapanthus, candytuft, coreopsis, daylilies, and penstemon are overgrown or not flowering well, it's time to dig and divide them.
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They are inhabited by overgrown schoolboys still playing with their toys, needy women who fear reality, and those who run a mile from anyone with a problem.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the allotments, paths overgrown with nettles and docks are littered with squashed cans and chocolate wrappers between walls of rusting corrugated iron topped with barbed wire.
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Instead they looked more like overgrown teddy bears with oversized heads, hands, and feet, their gangling limbs lending them an air of awkwardness.
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Landscape gardeners have begun a clearance of the overgrown ground to make way for a new park.