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
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  • 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.
  • Taking cues more from tweedy George Plimpton ( "Paper Lion") than schlumpy John Madden ( "Ultimate Tailgating"), herewith some tailgating essentials that which should raise the stakes on your own football fete. The Gentleman
  • Many of the early-drilled cereal crops are now becoming very weedy and every opportunity must be taken to apply residual herbicides.
  • Over lunch at Mory's, Yale's tweedy private dining club, he suggests that academics underrate the President because they overvalue specialized knowledge.
  • Below the bridge we could just discern a narrow, weedy ditch.
  • Marta and her friends roll along a weedy dirt road and hide their van deep in a tangle of shrubs and trees.
  • Just as much of today's horror fiction is vampire-driven, one major branch of modern fantasy -- in novels, "cosplay" (costume play), gaming and comics -- is obsessed with an alternate 19th century, one in which the inventions and mad scientists of Jules Verne, the tweedy science fiction of H.G. Wells and the gaslight romances of Arthur Conan Doyle have been mixed and remixed. "The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack," steampunk by Mark Hodder
  • The other especially weedy fern is bracken, which also unusually for pteridophytes has vessels.
  • They pair well with tailored suits and dresses and with any outfit comprised of one tweedy piece. Non-Granny Reading Glasses
  • If you don't take these weedy protuberances for a failed hanging basket display, you might be interested to learn it is designed to mark the passage of time over 12 years, which is how long it takes a good whisky to mature.
  • It all set a tone of exclusivity and privilege, an air of refinement reserved for corporate leaders and tweedy intellectuals.
  • Carl leaned forward, so he was nose to nose with the weedy, feckless man. THE LAST PLACE
  • And the sausage and mash was actually very good: a nice local venison banger and tweedy potato.
  • In very weedy vineyards the weeds may also compete with the vines for light.
  • Around the sides of the room are tweedy chairs, at the top is a long table.
  • For some reason I always imagined the author to be some tweedy pipe smoking gentleman - so I was surprised to discover the author's name behind the initials - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall!
  • Oh yes, the great, the double-barrelled and the weak chinned were all there in their green tweedy finery.
  • My notes found most of the tried-and-true performers to have made excessively weedy, leafy wines or overly extracted tannic wines.
  • Pike spawn during March and April in the shallow weedy margins of lakes and in the tiny overgrown backwaters of rivers.
  • A weedy-looking flowering plant called camelina currently looks like the best shot at success; the U.S. How can Boeing, our biggest exporter, get foreign airlines to buy more planes?
  • He has that old-fashioned chivalry that makes him wear a shirt and tie, and his tweedy jacket reminds me of one my dad used to wear.
  • Rusted metal, bits of concrete and cinder block, patches of burnt, weedy turf.
  • What concerns them is the risk that engineered plants might acquire weedy traits and escape from cultivation.
  • It is a shabby and disrespectful epitaph for the tweedy old Bernard Quatermass and his adventures, which date back almost to the advent of television.
  • I love shallow, weedy, silted up estate lakes to pursue crucian carp, tench, bream and carp and I love the sort of creeping and crawling tactics needed to get within inches of the fish.
  • At the centre of the front of Croker's enormous sideboard is a carved vase full of flowers flanked by great seaweedy festoons of fruit, flowers and foliage.
  • Further, the dense vegetation and extensive root systems of intact scrub appear to limit invasion by most weedy native or introduced species.
  • It's a kind of browny, yellowy, red-tinted, a sad auburn, with a sea-weedy wash about it. The Squire An Original Comedy in Three Acts
  • The interior is a lot lighter than in traditional Spanish homes, and English touches such as tweedy armchairs and swagged curtains make it feel homey.
  • Removing two other birds - an olivaceous warbler and a yellow-vented bulbul - from the 30-foot-long net, he heads for his base of operations: a folding card table in the middle of a weedy lot.
  • Northward, they prefer clear, weedy, glacial lakes - southward, they prefer weedy bayous.
  • Despite being famously weedy , the Sargasso is noted for its water clarity- the weed competes with other , mirkier phytoplankton. and if the ocean water was warmer than global average, something may have been happening to the near surface albedo Critical Review of Robinson, Robinson, and Soon’s “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide”
  • Nanny was the greatest of the generals of the Maroons, runaway slaves who forged a society and an identity in the weedy-thick hill country of the Jamaican hinterland.
  • An older woman, pink-cheeked and tweedy, appeared in the doorway.
  • Do not mow weedy sites or dismantle woodpiles, which provide them safe shelter in the off-season.
  • Standing there was a young man a few years older than me, passably good-looking but with a slightly weedy air about him.
  • Be warned: he's not at his most fanciable as the weedy-but-ruthless entrepreneur. The Sun
  • The story had a rather weedy plot.
  • Knitwear is key and appears in every imaginable form: an ankle-length Aran dress, long tweedy knit cardigan, sexy fine knit evening top shot with lurex, dainty lace effect camisole or soft stripe sweater.
  • By comparison with Richard, then, John has been seen as a weedy little tick.
  • I suppose any tweedy golfing trousers would do.
  • Well, he's a friend of the band, or more likely a desperate, Tweedy-worshipping hanger-on, which is obvious from the movie's idolatrous tone.
  • At the pier, he described a stringy plant floating in the murky water as a weedy species that had escaped from aquariums.
  • a weedy path
  • Short, weedy men are less attractive to the opposite sex than tall hunks, according to the latest research.
  • The one stumbling block is perhaps Graham's voice. It remains as reedy and weedy as ever, giving the impression of the love-lorn loser that this critic suspects he rather likes to play up to.
  • Goldfinches also feed on the seed of goldenrod, coreopsis, cosmos, zinnias, dandelions and other weedy plants.
  • Under the bonnet is a weedy 1.6-litre engine. The Sun
  • It shows weedy tangles of wildflowers lifting their leaves sunward as spring advances and winter's dolor is shucked off for another year.
  • One advantage of diverse environments, such as intercropped and weedy fields, is that they result in greater natural enemy numbers because they provide shelter and alternative food sources for natural enemies. 1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures.
  • I recommend this sometimes as an alternative to forsythia, because the flowering effect is similar, but kerria is a much nicer looking shrub after it flowers than forsythia, which tends to look ragged and weedy.
  • First comes the hippy California dad – long hair, screechy kids, lots of sunny white light; then the awkward writer, all tweedy fustiness with a sepia tint; and finally the designer, dressed in requisite black geek glasses and cool blue tones. The Hard Sell: American Airlines
  • Top fashion finds: anything mod, trench coats, Eighties ruching, vintage Chanel and Adolfo tweedy jackets, thirties movie star silk charmeuse gowns, seventies high-waist jeans and denim skirts a la Chloe.
  • Concerns have also been raised that herbicide-tolerant crops may pass their genes to weedy relatives, thereby making those weeds resistant to herbicides.
  • According to the magazine, many ecologists say it is only a matter of time before an engineered gene makes the leap to a weedy species, thus creating a new weed or invigorating an old one.
  • First comes the hippy California dad – long hair, screechy kids, lots of sunny white light; then the awkward writer, all tweedy fustiness with a sepia tint; and finally the designer, dressed in requisite black geek glasses and cool blue tones. The Hard Sell: American Airlines
  • They were not his kind of people, the bluff tweedy graziers, the lofty matrons, the toothy, horsy young women, the cream of what the Bulletin called “the squattocracy.” The Thorn Birds
  • Over sod or very weedy areas, I lay down cardboard then cover it with straw, hay, grass clippings or wood chips.
  • Was that because of weedy sound, unassertive performance or both? Times, Sunday Times
  • Mark could catch a hint of that odor now, fermenting itself up at the heart of the weedy thicket. LOST BOY LOST GIRL
  • Effective control of these weedy species is extremely difficult and infection often results in a significant reduction of crop yields.
  • He passed several weedy lots where buildings had been torn down. DO NO HARM
  • 'And the guards march past their colonel in chief, Cheryl Cole-née-Tweedy, in their sustainably sourced uniforms, the miniature wind turbines that replaced the busbies whirring gently in the breeze…' It doesn't bear thinking about. Lucy Mangan: What is it with Tories and royalty?
  • And the Conservative cause no longer can be found at the tweedy, collegiate haunts but rather prefers to be spread out at some beer bar in backwoods Alabama. CPAC Warmongering Etc. « Antiwar.com Blog
  • Roger Kitching, who as a boy in the 1950s began collecting insects and amphibians in the weedy rubble and drainage ditches of bombed-out Hull, England, found that "with collecting comes the need to record. Spiral-Bound and Spellbound
  • Coley noted that weedy plants have long been a source of traditional medicines.
  • S. longipes is a weedy, caryophyllaceous species, where stem elongation has been found to primarily involve cell elongation.
  • And there was the same guy sitting out in front of the library, chatting to some other tweedy academic type.
  • Researchers added that one of the most surprising findings was that ruderal ( "weedy") butterfly species that breed on "weedy" plants in disturbed habitats and are highly mobile are actually declining faster than "non-weedy" species -- those that specialize in one habitat type. Scientific Blogging
  • These communities are generally stable with few weedy invaders, although they are often colonized by woody shrubs like matagouri. Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands
  • When Iain turned up to meet me for the first time, he was wearing these odd, tweedy clothes and had long hair, which was very uncool for the era.
  • Without abandoning her earlier assessment of Jeff Tweedy's performance, she ventured a more complex answer.
  • The time when msnbc is unfair is when some dingbat like patty or tweedy start talking. Think Progress » Roger Ailes Admits That The White House Might Have ‘Legitimate Complaints’ About Fox News
  • The garden also offers another type of healing that is not physical, but spiritual, which is perhaps the greatest harvest of all: A hard day spent quietly weeding provides an opportunity to pull out weedy thoughts so productive ones can flourish; a morning spent sitting quietly and watching chipmunks and woodpeckers do their business can teach us about the joyfulness of work. Maria Rodale: A Harvest of Healing
  • Click these links to see how the clown anemonefish provides constant care, how the giant bullfrog tenderly and strategically saves his babies 'lives, how the gorilla serves as a bodyguard for youngsters, and how the weedy seadragon carries his eggs before they hatch. Avital Binshtock: Worth Watching: "Life" on DVD
  • Tweedy's managers started buying into a Latin American bottler at $15 a share and watched the price sink. Tweedy's High Performing Global Fund
  • Not only will the bloom of crowded plants be comparatively poor and brief, but by early and bold thinning the plants will become so robust, and cover such large spaces of ground with their ample leafage and well-developed flowers, as really to astonish people who think they know all about annuals, and who may have ventured after much ill-treatment to designate them 'fugacious and weedy.' The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
  • Elephant and buffalo ambled out of the rain forest to wade in the weedy shallows and to drink. Into Africa - a social history of the East African Safari
  • Clearly this was blatant misselling for in later years, science became a lot more difficult; a subject that sorted out those who understood how to make good drugs from those who took them and went off to Economics and let the J-curve waft past them in a weedy haze. Kissing: The purest art of all
  • Also, the weedy members of the subtribe tend to be annuals. 4 Questions and Answers
  • Short, weedy men are less attractive to the opposite sex than tall hunks, according to the latest ground-breaking research.
  • They might look a bit weedy but stopping is not an issue. The Sun
  • He's an unlikely rebel, a tweedy biology professor who's found himself at the center of one of the year's most ferocious debates.
  • The road descended through weedy habitat full of sparrows and Red-winged Blackbirds.
  • This was not yesterday's tweedy tourist but a more with-it or possibly somewhat past it type in blue jeans and a bright red windbreaker. THE RECYCLED CITIZEN
  • His fierce energy blazed from a weedy frame, with weak chin and pointed nose.
  • The landlubberly sport coat [above, center], meanwhile, originally derived from the tweedy, robust coats worn while assisting in the untimely end of feathered or furry creatures. Esquire.com Article Feed
  • Not everyone wants a weedy or untidy garden, but we could encourage more insect food by planting more trees, woody shrubs and wall climbers.
  • Do you see that guy over there with the bad haircut in the tweedy jacket?
  • A child psychiatrist and the medical director of the CD-CP, he is tweedy and bearlike, with curly brown hair and a salt-and-pepper beard.
  • In the rough, weedy pastures by the barn and above the hay fields, Michael and Jan keep milk goats and four draft horses.
  • On the downside, middle-aged Mr. Tweedy has been writing songs that have a weakness for breezy comfiness: 2007's Sky Blue Sky even features a song about household chores. Wilco Gets Hefty, Hammy and Happy on Coney Island
  • On Friday evenings the husbands, Simon among them, made their way up the mountainside from the train station by means of the one ancient village taxi, or else they trudged with their suitcases and their city bundles along the mile of dusty stone-strewn road, between high weedy growths, uphill to the colonies of cottages. What Happened to the Baby?
  • A small, decomposed body was found in a weedy field about two miles from where the girl disappeared.
  • A weed is defined as a plant out of place, and many vine-growers regard a weedy vineyard as a sign of poor management.
  • Now, does anyone else besides me have trouble with weedy gravel paths?
  • Each and every one is an ambassador for the blue groper, for the great cuttlefish, for the coral reefs, for the weedy sea dragons of the sort that I met personally yesterday, diving off Manly, and getting to see some of your treasures.
  • The wild cabbage, Brassica oleracea, is an undistinguished plant, vaguely like a weedy version of a domestic cabbage. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
  • Marta and her friends roll along a weedy dirt road and hide their van deep in a tangle of shrubs and trees.
  • Deep-shading and allelopathic crops can ‘treat’ particularly weedy areas.
  • The rain we had through July and into early August left the fields far too weedy to give the cover crops a chance.
  • Giant club moss trees vanished overnight to be replaced by rather weedy fern vegetation. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was a poky, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enclo - sure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere. Sole Music
  • Over sod or very weedy areas, I lay down cardboard then cover it with straw, hay, grass clippings or wood chips.
  • Reliance upon wind dispersal is common among many weedy or ruderal species. Seed dispersal
  • Goldfinches also feed on the seed of goldenrod, coreopsis, cosmos, zinnias, dandelions and other weedy plants.
  • The truth of the matter is that we're just plain weedy.
  • In the living room, a tweedy wing chair (on deep discount from Ralph Lauren) and an antique chair (discarded from a fitting room) join a plan denim sofa.
  • The manse was a square Victorian building built beside the loch, with a depressing garden of weedy grass and rhodo-dendrons. Death of a Charming Man
  • No longer will some red-faced tweedy type, shotgun under the arm, be likely to block their path and order them: ‘Get orf my land!’
  • But she left the apartment in tweedy jackets with big shoulder pads and blue eye shadow.
  • Has it got anything to do with fishing being a rural, quarry sport, too closely associated, often erroneously, with tweedy people who shoot things?
  • A couple of halfway decent, if rather weedy, hits would see us within chipping distance, so we went for it.
  • Picture this: Your date slips off his tweedy sport coat and drapes it across your bare shoulders to protect you from the chilly breeze. Ask Teri
  • Peering down through its latticed sides I could just make out the sandy, weedy ocean floor, 20 metres below.
  • Below the bridge we could just discern a narrow, weedy ditch.
  • Slightly weedy sound and a big price. Times, Sunday Times
  • Diane Lane's Penny Chenery Tweedy takes charge of her father's troubled farm as a foal is born in 1970 and goes on to win the Triple Crown. The Short List: A Guide to This Week's Arts and Entertainment
  • Goldfinches also feed on the seed of goldenrod, coreopsis, cosmos, zinnias, dandelions and other weedy plants.
  • In the dusty window, there was a pure wool 'tweedy' jacket costing £135, a pair of heavy corduroy trousers at£45, and a pair of blood red slacks at £30. Tailor to his Lordship
  • Although no one would plant these weedy types, they all have attractive, cultivated cousins.
  • Stick on a pair of wellies with a tweedy number and you can muck out stables, walk the dog or dig the garden.
  • Tweedy, who is one of three clowns touring with the circus, made a big impact with the 150 children at the infant school.
  • The white sky and weedy ocher landscape have the blurry quality of an out-of-focus photograph.
  • Lawns composed of cool-season grasses such as Kentucky bluegrass and tall fescue are best aerified in the fall, when there is less heat stress and danger of invasion by weedy annuals.
  • When a field gets too weedy, Fred will seed it in grasses and turn it into pasture or hay.
  • Mark could catch a hint of that odor now, fermenting itself up at the heart of the weedy thicket. LOST BOY LOST GIRL
  • `And who, Mr Bowden," asked Tweedy, `was the chief of these Frankish bandits who quarrelled among themselves over the loot? THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
  • There wasn't much of a bang and the hats were a bit weedy. The Sun
  • Giant club moss trees vanished overnight to be replaced by rather weedy fern vegetation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Weedy morning - glory vines overran the rainforest canopy.
  • On weedy or messy bottoms, I often fish with a small nymph on a dropper about 18 inches from the booby.
  • Designers have taken the bulk, and some of the frumpery, out of sensible tweedy fabrics to give these jackets a nostalgic, vaguely Forties or Fifties air.
  • The whole village should be clear of weeds within the next week or two with a huge effort made to clear gutters, forecourts of public buildings and other weedy sites.
  • The men's dorms are decorated in virile earth tones and the rugged wood and tweedy furniture gives you the feeling of being in a hunting lodge.
  • Elephant and buffalo ambled out of the rain forest to wade in the weedy shallows and to drink. Into Africa - a social history of the East African Safari
  • She had a black floral scarf wrapped around her head, a tan, tweedy skirt, and a purple sweater made of cheap, static material.
  • Its tweedy historical framework may appear out of character for the director, but not the volatile character dynamics. Histories and Mysteries
  • A tweedy poetaster who spent his time spinning out parables and Japanese koans…or a bland Jesus who simply told people to look at lilies in the fields — such a Jesus would threaten no one, just as the university professors who create him the Jesus Seminar and their ilk threaten no one. Archive 2007-09-09
  • His dramatic acting style and weedy humor delighted the audience.
  • Never wear a matching two-piece tweed suit, but break it up by putting on a pair of baggy, mannish trousers or jeans with a pretty, shrunken, tweedy jacket.
  • I really like getting ‘as one’ with a river though, so I like to use a pair of waders and stand in the river in the edge and trot down from that position; generally I choose a weedy or reedy margin to shield my presence from the fish.
  • This means it is versatile, but the beam was a bit weedy when made wide enough for walking outdoors. Times, Sunday Times
  • Invasive species, indeed any weedy species, don't give a hoot about your property boundaries.
  • When called, they did give a sort of apology, much like a school kid looking down at his shoes and mumbling something because he doesn't want to be seen to apologise to the weedy kid he was punching.
  • At the pier, he described a stringy plant floating in the murky water as a weedy species that had escaped from aquariums.
  • We're all aware that, while cutting-edge fashion can be a slither of mermaid sequins slashed north of the knicker line, it just as often means a tweedy suit, and a caramel leather blouson worn with shades.
  • My mother's beautiful roses and peonies were now weedy scrub. Susan Schindehette: 8 Mile, Revisited
  • Initial seaweedy flavour gives way to chalky cruciferous bitterness. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was an unimpressive figure physically, weedy and foppish, and slightly lame since birth, but when he addressed the Members of Parliament he made them flinch with his phrases of masterful contempt.
  • Both the pigs and the roads have contributed to the proliferation of a number of weedy species.
  • Here's what Jeff Tweedy has to say about it, snipped from the press release: Boing Boing: June 12, 2005 - June 18, 2005 Archives
  • (So, basically, the guy who has vowed to have a respectful dialogue with any crumbum Third World dictator is now threatening to steamroll over tweedy American college presidents - but that's another story.) Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
  • Wildflower seed does not always germinate reliably and uniformly, and weedy plants can be a problem in newly seeded areas.
  • Herbaceous, weedy species remained dominant through 1999, and exotic grasses were an important component of the vegetation.
  • All bundled up as if was expecting cold weather, he was wearing a long, tweedy coat, a bunch of scarves twisted around his head so you could hardly see his face.
  • The mounds and middens are significant and long-lived disturbed areas, highly congenial to the weedy species ancestral to the earliest cultivated and domesticated food plants.
  • She travels with her weedy brother, who is convinced he's dying of cancer.
  • The main reason you'd buy one is that you find the MX-5 a bit weedy and you want something a bit more hirsute. Times, Sunday Times
  • These weedy fly-bitten popinjays, these pribbling clumsy clay-brained miscreants - how dare they think they can share the same job title as me?
  • Rather like those weedy onlookers who failed to stop him. Times, Sunday Times
  • Elephant and buffalo ambled out of the rain forest to wade in the weedy shallows and to drink. Into Africa - a social history of the East African Safari
  • It's a lovely smell, tweedy somehow, reminiscent of teacher's jackets and the faint tobacco scent my grandfather used to have about him when he gave you a hug or, if you were too grown up for a hug, a friendly arm across the shoulder.
  • He is so weedy and nerdy and in desperate need of a few hours down at the gym that you just want to slap him around a few times.
  • Though he works for a fictional firm, the stature and trappings are old school, and his cohort of young associates all have the scrubbed and tweedy Harvard look about them.
  • Giant club moss trees vanished overnight to be replaced by rather weedy fern vegetation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Joplin was a thin and weedy boy, who seemed to always be wearing a plain white shirt and simple trousers, and the same gray cloak draped over his shoulder.
  • And if you sit there for long enough, and close your eyes, its possible to imagine his Lordship stepping off the steam driven train, wearing blood red red slacks, a pure wool 'tweedy' jacket and the trademark cap. Tailor to his Lordship
  • It shows weedy tangles of wildflowers lifting their leaves sunward as spring advances and winter's dolor is shucked off for another year.
  • The whole village should be clear of weeds within the next week or two with a huge effort made to clear gutters, forecourts of public buildings and other weedy sites.
  • Herbicides kill weedy plants, thus decreasing the competition for desired crop plants.
  • What a contrast to the weedy, desperate, clinging on to the parental coat-tails displayed by G4 in their email – the craven faux-ironic desperation to impress, with achievements that were nothing to do with them. Time for these boy-men to cut the apron strings | Barbara Ellen
  • He has an avuncular, precociously adult manner of speaking - like a tweedy professor with elbow patches.
  • Their message to themselves was: listen, we may look like weedy nerds with glasses, you might think you can push us around, but secretly we have Amazing Powers!
  • She was wearing a plain tweedy suit with a simple square pendant of some purple gem.
  • He dates a model, and his sidekick is his butler, a weedy ex-con of some kind. Rip Kirby » Comics Worth Reading
  • ‘If you don't drink you get lumped in with the weedy people,’ argues Riddoch.
  • She was wearing a plain tweedy suit with a simple square pendant of some purple gem.
  • Excruciatingly tight corsets, puffball skirts made of netting and tweedy twinsets minus the midriff have been some of the more extreme looks wowing fashion followers at the catwalk collections in Paris.
  • And yes, the interior does look a bit weedy for what is actually a 70,000 package. Times, Sunday Times
  • The perspective of squat blue slate roofs and clustering chimneys drifted downward towards the irregular open space before the colliery — a space covered with coaly, wheel-scarred mud, with a patch of weedy dump to the left and the colliery gates to the right. In the Days of the Comet
  • Those weedy boll weevils and the smirky lizards are witnesses to her behavior. The Town Secrets
  • Some of those who spoke made sense, she said, but there were others who seemed just as batty and abstracted as the most eccentric tweedy types of yesteryear, despite the Marxian lingo and the earrings.
  • I was your archetypal weedy little guy who got sand kicked in his face. Times, Sunday Times
  • Pass him on the street, and the first impression would be tweedy intellectual.
  • There were some untidy areas at different points around the village. These consisted mostly of weedy areas.
  • This season, a floaty chiffon knee-length skirt paired with a Fair Isle sweater or a tweedy jacket will look extremely hip.
  • A weedy ditch, brushy draw, overgrown fencerow, saddle, or line of dark timber are all good bets. Bag More Big Bucks By Finding the Dominant Doe
  • The first man looked weedy and was wearing nylon tracksuit bottoms, a long black coat and yellow gloves.
  • He's a weedy man, who was shaking and sweating during our encounter.
  • There are flecks of lint, or dandruff, on Ault's tweedy shoulders. MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE

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