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How to use overgrown in a sentence

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The ground was overgrown with wide-spread bracken and tall, matured trees blocked the view to the surrounding buildings.
In O'Hara's opinion there is no bigger turn-off than an overgrown plot and an unweeded driveway.
I sprinted through brambles and thorned blackberry bushes and pushed my way past overgrown, waist-high swordfern.
The factory was bulldozed some years ago and the land is currently overgrown and derelict.
Like a wingless albatross I plummeted two storeys into an overgrown plumbago.
He waved a hand at the rutted, cratered fields, now overgrown with grass and great crimson drifts of poppies and fireweed.
Unfortunately, celery sticks aren't as tempting as overgrown cinnamon buns and chocolate-dipped ice cream cones.
One afternoon we passed over some abandoned terraces, their earth encrusted and overgrown with scratchy, sunburned weeds.
Our camp was on the eastern slope of a ridge thickly overgrown with high grass and Spanish bayonets.
All around the horse corral, it was overgrown with viny bushes and thick rooted willows.
Old shrubs, such as spiraea, forsythia, lilac, and honeysuckle, often become overgrown and full of crowded stems and dead wood.
They are not so delicate as the green spaces in China, but wild and overgrown with weeds.
But perhaps more than ever there are many moorland paths overgrown with the heather.
Even unto this day, it is all overgrown with vines, and flowers grow where once there must have been gardens.
I walked through the garden, noting how overgrown it was, and how the house was in poor condition.
Explore an overgrown old road bed through shady buttonwoods and open coastal salt prairie.
In pakicetids, the ectotympanic has already overgrown, giving rise to a large bulla surrounding the petrosal.
It was pure agony, being carried through a bright hallway by some overgrown man wearing a laboratory coat.
Jasmine and hibiscus have overgrown this site, which is now as green and resplendent as the rest of the Vietnamese countryside.
A nucellar dome has been formed in the massive nucellar cap and the integument has overgrown the nucellus and formed a wide-open micropyle.
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He might have been an overgrown and badly dressed Cupid who had innocently wandered from Paphian shores.
Often much of the face of the cliff is covered with slip or rainwash, and overgrown with vegetation.
It was a moor at the time of the battle in 1485, overgrown with thistles and scutch-grass.
A number of the stones from Scott's nunatak were brought away because they were thickly overgrown with lichens.
The marble balustrades which railed the terrace were overgrown with viridescent plant and flowering vine.
At times they lost the trail, as it was overgrown with fern and berry bush.
I attempted to take a time exposure of the place but a gawky overgrown boy walked in front of the camera, spoiling the picture.
He shows us the cat as a diminutive but undomesticated tiger to whom we are nothing more than an overgrown and uneatable prey.
On the other side of the wall enclosing our yard, which faces due south, is a narrow path overgrown with couch-grass.
The path was overgrown, and it was clear that for years now it had remained all but untrodden.
Like most overgrown creatures he was top-heavy and lethargic and very humble-minded.
The banks are moderately high wooded mountains, the uncultivated places in which are often overgrown with datura.
The opening of their mine has been called blue john Gap, a clean-cut arch in the rock, the mouth all overgrown with bushes.
A greatly overgrown hoof may be quickly shortened with sharp nippers and the sole freed of semidetached flakes of horn.
Then came a little valley overgrown with the pale purple bloom of thistles and elusively haunted with their perfume.
The soil is red, and overgrown with arbutus and pinaster, like the country around Cannes.
Here, as in Sicily, the old lava is overgrown with prickly pear and red valerian.
In the front I find that a longish patch of heuchera Richardsoni has about half the plants overgrown.
I candidly tell you, my dear boy, that if you had been awkward and overgrown, I should have exported you to some distant part of the world.
It lacked a door and a window frame, and the chimney of mud and stones had fallen into an unlovely heap, overgrown with rank weeds.
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