weedy

How To Use weedy In A Sentence

• When herbicide-resistant crops are commercially grown, it is possible that herbicide-resistant weeds will develop if genes are transferred from the transgenic crop to related weedy species.
• This season, a floaty chiffon knee-length skirt paired with a Fair Isle sweater or a tweedy jacket will look extremely hip.
• This one was a weedy little thing that couldn't put a hole through a sheet of paper.
• I am, for example, as suspicious of authors in tweedy jackets or carrying pipes as I am of professors with elbow patches - they seem to be playing a role that shows how they envision themselves as Author, rather than beign who they are. Archive 2008-04-01
• There are vintage sports cars, lovely Viyella shirts and tweedy ties. Evening Standard - Home
• In many hybrids you cannot tell when this happens because the engine is small and weedy, like a mouse. Times, Sunday Times
• Weedy John keeps being called a walking pustule by everyone, though Joseph Drake's skin seems to be a pimple-free zone. Reasons to Be Pretty; Juno and the Paycock; The Lion in Winter – review
• He is a trim, nice-looking 72-year-old wearing a tweedy jacket and spiffy tasselled loafers.
• Giant club moss trees vanished overnight to be replaced by rather weedy fern vegetation. Times, Sunday Times
• The wild and weedy rice taxa were used as pollen recipients, whereas the cultivated rice was used as the pollen donor.